Word: explicitness
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...PHILIPPINES, Filipinos spend 20% of their leisure money on movies. Nearly 200 films are now being produced annually. Locally made skin flicks, called bomba, have been dampened by martial law sensibilities, so producers are now filming what they call "bold" movies, which are only slightly less explicit. The Philippines' most popular actor-director-producers are Joseph Estrada, who in real life is mayor of San Juan, and Fernando Poe Jr. Both are masters of swashbuckling adventures. Poe has just been signed to play the guerrilla hero Ferdinand Marcos−who was one in World...
...Equally explicit are the accounts of many other aspects of the bishop's career. An alcoholic, he was three times picked up drunk and confused by police. He told one airline stewardess she could not mix a good martini, standing up in the aisle to show her how to do it. He joined Alcoholics Anonymous in 1964 and with one brief lapse stayed dry thereafter...
When Carter became the front runner, many voters wanted him to be more explicit on the issues. He attempted to respond by delivering a comprehensive but unexciting foreign policy speech in Chicago, an excellent speech at the United Nations calling for controlling the spread of nuclear arms, a stirring civil rights address in Los Angeles. He said, with considerable exaggeration, that he had position papers "on every conceivable issue." But it was not enough, and the failure to be more explicit cost Carter dearly in the late primaries...
Bryan deserves every bit of praise he will undoubtedly continue to receive for this book--for its sweep and beauty, for his faith in its importance which sustained him, and for the honesty which informs it. He is explicit: he writes that Friendly Fire depends on "the exploitation of Peg Mullen's grief" and he is ambivalent about that, as he should be. Bryan last week recalled a visit he made recently to a Western college where, to his surprise, the discussion centered around the "style" of the book. Bryan, a low-keyed person, blurted out, "Style is not what...
...flaky, sensually attractive woman, had detailed her sex life with him to reporters for the Washington Post and let them listen as the Congressman reassured her on the phone that he would continue their sex-and-job arrangement despite his new marriage. She is understood to have even more explicit tape recordings. "I have proof," she insists...