Now, with "City of God," Doctorow has written a novel that is explicitly, almost defiantly anticinematic.
This may seem like peculiar praise for a show that is explicitly a pastiche of eighties pop culture, a TV box made of movie memories.
Stockman, who studied at Harvard Divinity School, favors language that is explicitly theological: Keynesian "sin," the "demon" of debt, the "devil's workshop" of the New Deal.
That is the unions' strategic advantage: their numbers and strength are concentrated in a sector of the economy that is explicitly politicised.
Along the way, there are a lot of jokes about bodily functions, a lot of dialogue that is explicitly contemptuous of women, and a lot of profanity.
This professedly anti-racist argument is about as close as anyone comes to articulating a mainstream political agenda that is explicitly pro-white.
There is, indeed, an entire international organisation, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, that is explicitly aimed at getting rid of it.
The only Pentagon effort that is explicitly designed to achieve that purpose is the air force's Airborne Laser programme, which is probably a decade away from deployment.
The patriarch of the family in your novel is a bigwig administrator at a university that is explicitly modeled after Columbia.
As a result, equipment manufacturers, such as Nokia, are already making base-station kit that is explicitly designed for shared networks.Meanwhile, 3G is under attack on another front.
In adopting an economic agenda that is explicitly redistributive, the White House is seeking to tackle the glaring problems of wage stagnation and rising inequality, while also daring Republicans to oppose some measures that are likely to be popular.
