Word: carlin
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...Supreme Court last week backed the Federal Communications Commission and banned the broadcast of comedian George Carlin's routine on "Filthy Words...
...absurd to think of words as being indecent and immoral," Carlin said last night. "Those are qualities that only people can possess. Words are merely symbols and, as such, cannot harm us," he added...
WBAI, the New York station cited by the FCC case for airing the routine, sided with Carlin, saying that the decision unfairly placed radio and T.V. in a different category than print media as far as the First Amendment is concerned...
Despite the vigilant but not unsympathetic eye of Miss Mona (Carlin Glynn), whom no one would presume to call a madam, the girls feel that this house is cozier than home. But a puritan nemesis stalks them: a local TV Savonarola nicknamed "Watchdog" (Clint Allmon) who is bent on inflaming the Bible thumpers and incriminating the pols till they close down the Chicken Ranch...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Jacqueline Carlin, 28, television guest actress (Kojak) and pitchwoman (Palmolive); from Cornelius ("Chevy") Chase, 34, comedy writer and actor who rose to fame with his pratfalls on NBC's Saturday Night Live; after 16 months of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...