Word: chatterley
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movie sees this emotional colorizing as a good thing. Waking from the prolonged childhood of the '50s (when Ike was the omnipotent dad), America attended to the culture bubbling under its consciousness--to rhythm and blues, to Lenny Bruce and Redd Foxx, to Lolita and Lady Chatterley's Lover--and took a heroic leap into the enthralling unknown, the flourishing of art, the liberation of race and gender. Yet it can also be argued that the opening of those emotional pores brought a more debased culture: drug epidemics, teen pregnancy, splatter movies, penis-size jokes on every sitcom, Marilyn Manson...
...Lady Chatterley's Lover, D. H.Lawrence
...legislation to regulate the Net. New York enacted a law last year that resembles the CDA. In Virginia it's now illegal for state employees--including state-college professors--to access "sexually explicit" materials online. That law might prevent English professors from running an online discussion of Lady Chatterley's Lover. In Georgia it's a crime for people to communicate anonymously over the Net, which could come as a surprise to 8 million America Online users, most of whom use pseudonyms...
...feared and dreaded negation which aroused Lawrence's violent hatred. He thrived on her contradictions. Despite her flagrant infidelities, he insisted that she was the love of his life. She served as the inspiration for works as varied as the violent "The Woman Who Rode Away" and Lady Chatterley's Lover...
Dreaming of the day when life and love would be "a quite unlosable game," Philip Larkin wrote, "Sexual intercourse began/in nineteen sixty-three/(Which was rather late for me)/Between the end of the Chatterley ban/And the Bestle's first I.P." Sadly, 1963 was too late for Lawrence as well...