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...hire a women's adviser. Even when Fox does remember, few women student residents are aware of this service, primarily because women's advisers are not labeled as such. Fox says he does it this way because he prefers to "handle it (sexual harassment and women's issues) in inexplicit ways." Fox says he favors an informal method because it is "more inclined to do something more low-key, but more available...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unwanted Attentions | 6/5/1980 | See Source »

...film's tone is confused and predictable: lame slapstick gags (including the inevitable food fight), sentimental bromides about love, and deadly serious (if inexplicit) sex scenes are thrown together without transitions. Even the heroines' slowly developing friendship is sketchily written; it seems to happen offscreen. While McNichol and O'Neal always command attention, the drama they create has less to do with Little Darlings than with the intriguing vicissitudes of show business careers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Growing Up | 3/31/1980 | See Source »

...only book to appear on this subject is ???ckie paperback, The Killing of Sharon Tate. It is a calculated exploitational work of popular culture, complete with pseudo-sociology, gore, glamour and inexplicit sex. As escapist reading however, it isn't a hell...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: Murder Satan in California | 5/20/1970 | See Source »

...single, blinding white beam split the backdrop, silhouetting the struggle in all its throat-catching violence. When Wotan summoned the magic fire at the finale, the blackness was pierced by a single red spot, transforming Wotan's spear into a tongue of flame; in the inexplicit staging, these moments stood out in a relief that old-fashioned literalness could never achieve. The orchestra, which Von Karajan subdued to the point of regretfulness during the love scene between Siegmund and his twin sister Sieglinde in Act I, later blared and crackled as Wotan and Fricka haggled about the implications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: OPERA: Conductor Herbert von Karajan | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

...Castro's regime is yet to be written, he insists that this much of it has become "increasingly clear." He apparently considers the quoted lines an objective statement of historical fact, but the book reveals, in various ways, that Draper's view of these facts is warped by an inexplicit, unadmitted appraisal of Castro's motives...

Author: By David R. Underhill, | Title: The Two Cuban Revolutions | 4/26/1963 | See Source »

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