Word: avatars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aristophanes worships the risque; his play is loaded with the kind of jokes you imagine Avatar fiends or prep school boys tell each other. Any innocent mention of rising, the playwright apparently believes, deserves a comeback with the wickedest innuendoes...
...owes at least a part of his success to his lust for anti-establishment humor. When the Avatar was banned in Cambridge for obscenity, its next issue contained a purposely filthy editorial, loaded with all the foul language the writer could muster. Uncle T promptly asked Avatar's editors to visit his show, and they conducted a reading of the article--with T inserting a whistled be-boop for every fourletter word...
Adlow made his decisions after reading certain choice portions of recent Avatar issues, including the celebrated centerfold of four-letter words and alleged account of the judge's own conduct in his Nov. 8 obsenity conviction of Avatar's 11th issue. According to that account, Adlow told bickering lawyers: "Shut up you c----and let's get this f----show on the road before the mammy-jamming sun goes down. . . . Ah b----, this is getting boring. I'm going home to read Avatar...
Oteri claimed that Avatar was required reading at the Harvard Divinity School...
Adlow said, "because of things like Avatar, people are being alienated from those standards of industry and decency necessary for a useful, healthy and productive society...