Word: explicitness
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...enforcement can be confused and capricious. The authorities have not tried to close Madrid, Mortal Sin, a lively revue?complete with a nude scene ?that pokes fun at everything, including politicians of all stripes. The most popular film in Madrid last winter was The Proposal, a sexually explicit tale of an amoral senorita who accidentally kills her lover out of erotic ardor. But Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris has yet to be shown, and a poet was recently fined $2,700 for reading in public a work by Garcia Lorca available in most bookstores...
...official concedes that "there's a lot of bureaucratic ass-covering that goes on when guys write long-range stuff. They don't want to be wrong, so they tend to be glib and platitudinous." Yet many Government officials say that CIA experts are much more explicit and insightful when they make verbal assessments-in meetings or on the phone-and do not have to write and file reports that could come back to haunt them...
Rivera cited Foster's experience because his case demonstrates that Afro faculty members "who draw students are not being rewarded." Invited to teach Afro courses under a one-year contract with the department, Foster will not return to Afro next year, despite his explicit request to Southern that his visiting professor contract be renewed. Foster will confine his academic duties to teaching courses at the Graduate School of Education next year, where he also worked this year on a joint program that included the Afro affiliation. Rivera calls Foster's experiences within the department "the Ephraim Isaac case" of this...
...admissions process frustrating, Jewett says it still aims to attract talented athletes as well as others with exceptional extracurricular talents. The different, he points out, is that Harvard does not distinguish between athletic skills and other talents when considering its applicant pool. Other Ivy League schools are more explicit in their consideration--ranging from Penn, which is reported to reserve a certain number of spots in its freshman class especially for "athletes," to Princeton, which only considers athletes as a separate group when judging the applications its admissions committee considers marginal. Jewett maintains that athletes do not need special consideration...
...does a good political novel so closely tread the path of reality that it becomes a roman a clef which by its publication may influence the outcome of an upcoming election. The bleeding of real campaigns and easily identifiable political figures, composing a gripping tale and simultaneously making an explicit political statement, are what set The Shad Treatment apart from most political novels and make it worth reading...