Word: explicitness
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...other Marianas. Marias and Maria Anas, all trapped in some kind of "convent"--of marriage, of motherhood, of passion--and all somehow seduced and abandoned. And scattered throughout are poems and letters in which the authors speak in their own voices, voices that are surprising both in their explicit eroticism and in their unsparing honesty and self-doubt about the work they are engaged...
...Underworld, or hell, is entered through a mirror instead of over the river Styx. The two are similar, but the symbolism of Cocteau's approach is more explicit and eccentric. He imbues a pretty mundane object the mirror with suggestive properties at the moment when you no longer possess an image when you can't be reflected, you're dead Similarly. Orpheus's bloody head-- lopped off by the Bacchantes--turns into a marble bust when it's propped on a pedestal. There are plenty of strange transformations in this play, and they mingle the whimsy of Alice in Wonderland...
...Cambodia or South Viet Nam. In Phnom-Penh, New York Democratic Representative Bella Abzug, long a vocal opponent of U.S. involvement in Indochina, remarked: "I'm concerned about the humanitarian situation, the kids' bellies. The military situation was lost long ago." Minnesota Democrat Donald Fraser was more explicit: "In my judgment, the only thing we can do is help arrange for the orderly transfer of power to the [Khmer] insurgents...
...MOST OF the photographers in The Snapshot, time is fleeting and each image is an instantaneous moment within it. Gary Winogrand is a master of capturing the telling moment when human interaction is at its most explicit. Sometimes the result is too neat--one photograph is made by the simple gimmick of two men frozen in the similar act of pointing at the same unseen object. Others strike to the heart of interrelationships. One features the taut confrontation of mother and son on a city street. The kid's whining defiance and his mother's tired implorings cry out from...
...even more wrought up when an American edition is published in May by St. Martin's Press. The book: Show Me!, a commentary on sex intended for youngsters and their parents, illustrated with startling photos of nude children touching one another and young adults engaging in various explicit sexual acts, including intercourse...