Word: explicitness
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...Raphaelites as Burne-Jones and Millais. The Christmas Book is a rich survey of Yuletide art from ancient Collier's magazine covers to the naive masterworks of Grandma Moses. Only one caveat: four of these five bargains would grace any child's library. Temptation, however, offers explicit pictures like Dali's Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by Her Own Chastity. The book must carry an unseasonal rating...
Driving Home. The good thing about driving home is that it makes explicit the distance between you and Harvard, whatever that distance may be. If you fly home it's possible to maintain the illusion that Harvard and home are only a few hours apart, in spirit and distance as well as time. You go from anonymous airport to plane to airport, with nothing real in between. The traveling is a state of suspension, and one place rubs up against another...
...OBJECTIVE STATEMENT Mitchell makes most prominent is suburban dreariness. Several songs are explicit narratives of that dish-water despair, there's-no-olive-in-my-martini madness. In "Harry's House/Centerpiece" Mitchell interposes a jazzy arrangement of a 1950s love tune, "Baby, you're my centerpiece," with a desolate vision...
...wharves unfolds. This is his sculptural landscape−as the marble quarries of Serravezza are Henry Moore's. The Manhattan docks have furnished both the material and the imagery for his work: the gray, salt-pickled balks of timber; their ponderous iron bolts, cleats and straps; the explicit logic of big practical structure. Pieces like Hankchampion (1960) are inseparable from that context. Its salvaged wooden beams, bolted together and strung with chain, are a homage to the plain speech of early industrial architecture. There is also a strong connection to abstract-expressionist painting. As James Monte points...
Hospitals should establish criteria for DNR patients in the same way that Mass General instituted guidelines for patients on artificial support. In turn, the standard should be subjected to a legal test so that society will have an explicit voice in matters that have traditionally not been talked about. And, next time, the judge must not demur...