Word: explicitness
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...could the Los Angeles welfare board, which is charged with the moral chaperonage of young performers. After a long legal hassle, it was agreed that Jodie would be replaced in the more sexually explicit scenes by a double-actually her own 20-year-old sister, Connie. Then Jodie underwent a four-hour session with a U.C.L.A. psychiatrist who had to rule on her mental stability. Says she: "I suppose they figured that if I was willing to play a part like that, I had to be insane." To prepare for the role, she got into "Iris' " satin hot pants...
...demon, of course, is the fat, rapacious Arab sheikh whose grosslyextravagant pleasures are financed by the hard-earned money of the western people. Miles Ignotus is quite explicit in this respect, including not only the Arabs, but other Third World peoples as well: "military dictators and megalomaniacal kings of OPEC," "narrow self-appointed ruling groups (elections have become a rarity in Asia and Africa) fond of shiny black cars and numbered Swiss accounts," not to mention the by-now infamous "OPEC extortionists" and "Arab blackmailers...
...Fully disclose warranty terms in "simple and readily understood language." Among the facts that must be listed: precisely when, how and by whom a product will be repaired or replaced, and who will make a refund. Currently warranties are often clotted with legalese and offer implied instead of explicit promises...
...DIFFERENCE between Special Section and Costa-Gavras's early masterpiece Z is the difference between being upset and being enraged. The earliest work is a classic in the genre of political filmaking. Its importance is explicit, topical; its purpose to instruct, inform, and hopefully, to change. In Z the ugly, brutal face of fascism is an easy target for the audience's hatred. Unfortunately, Costa-Gavras' latest film seems to have political intentions and somehow means to help us form a social opinion. Ultimately it does neither. Its topic of justice and collaboration in the Vichy regime is 35 years...
Listeners often squirm at Smith's more explicit songs. In the title track of her Horses album, which is an incantation of violence and brutal sexuality, she sings of "white, shining silver studs with their noses in flames" and of a suicidal lover who "picked up a blade, and pressed it against his smooth throat." Redondo Beach, set against a catchy reggae beat, tells of lesbian love. Other Smith songs like the hard rocker Free Money are easier to take. In surrealistic blues like Birdland, her mordant fragments of verse can be evocative...