Word: avara
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They call us the dirty-movie ladies," says Mrs. Margery Shriver. "They don't realize," adds Mrs. Mary Avara, "the headaches we get from watching this stuff." "Can you imagine," asks Mrs. Rosalyn Shecter, "kids at drive-ins getting to see stuff like this? They do elsewhere, you know...
...company executive, "or there's something here that escapes me." In another scene, the man strokes the girl's private parts. Both are naked except for masks. "I can't tell what they're doing," says Mrs. Shriver. "Don't ask," replies Mrs. Avara, 60, a widow who has been on the board since...
Electrodes are placed on the girl's breasts. "This is going to be shocking," cracks Mrs. Shriver. The film grinds to a finale in which the hero stabs the nude girl. "We're turning the whole picture down," says Mrs. Avara. "They insult us by submitting stuff like this." Among the films banned last year was I Am Curious (Yellow), the Swedish import found by federal district courts to possess sufficient "redeeming social value" to qualify for constitutional protection...
...cinematic activities have begun to exhibit a staggering sameness, and the joking becomes more strained. Two lesbians perform for the camera, and Mrs. Avara wonders aloud "what's going through their minds." Whatever it is, there is little likelihood that other Marylanders will get a chance to guess. The dirty-movie ladies rejected the film...