Word: explicitness
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...only for a while. For the film then makes explicit that his motive for the robbery is to get money to buy a sex-change operation for his homosexual lover. The moronic quality of his relations with his parents and his dull-witted wife is also explored, proving to be extraordinarily unattractive and beyond most people's own experience. One tries to be sympathetic, in the nothing-hu-man-is-alien-to-me manner. But the viewer leaves the theater with that most devastating of disclaimers: This has nothing to do with...
Gallic Subtlety. Although President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing virtually abolished censorship six months ago, Secretary of State for Culture Michel Guy still has authority to ban anything on stage or screen that goes too far. Guy, however, is more concerned about violence and drugs than explicit sex. If he had been in office at the time, Guy says he might well have banned Stanley Kubrick's chilling A Clockwork Orange, which anyone over 18 could see, while letting Last Tango in Paris sail through. Another branch of government, however, may give the porn purveyors some anxiety...
...confusing modification of the pledge that provoked another flurry of telexed exchanges between the harried foreign correspondents and their home-office editors. The new version required journalists to acknowledge "receipt" of the censorship guidelines and to undertake "full responsibility for reports in regard to these guidelines," but extracted no explicit promise to submit to them. That left the press wondering whether the government had in effect backed down. Journalists from several Western news organizations, including CBS, the New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor, felt that the pledge was now "innocuous" and agreed to sign -though with some misgivings...
What mostly upsets Banfield's critics is that he finds that there is no urban crisis--or at least no crisis that can't be corrected by that conservative weapon of time. And he makes it explicit that he wants time and only time to solve problems--not federally-funded aid programs to the poor, like housing programs under the Housing and Urban Development Department and the Office of Economic Opportunity that President Nixon cut back drastically while Banfield was his urban consultant. In Banfield's book these programs only serve to exacerbate problems of city-dwellers...
...with Nashville, they were in trouble. What do you do with 24 characters? Now Altman was making explicit his concern for making movies about communities rather than internal personal conflicts. And the California Split problem was solved. At last the let's-get-high-and-decide-what-we're-gonna-shoot-tomorrow theory of handling actors could operate the way it was supposed to, without eager stars killing each other off. Now they could follow their own instincts about a role, because, there was no intrinsically dramatic situation for them to get caught...