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...racy or naughty by most people. It seems incredible today that a book in the '60s about the city was called Las Vegas, City of Sin? The change in perception is mainly because Americans' collective tolerance for vulgarity has gone way, way up. Just a decade ago, "hell" and "damn" were the most offensive words permitted on broadcast TV; today the colloquialisms "butt" and "sucks" are in daily currency on all major networks. Characters on Fox sitcoms and MTV cartoon shows snicker about their erections, and the stars of NYPD Blue can call each other "asshole." Look at Montel Williams...
...FAMILY. Who needs prosecutors? Wayward sister LaToya said mother Katherine had called Michael a "damn faggot" even as Mom went on TV to defend him. But LaToya had her own problems. British Immigration officers detained her for 90 minutes, suspecting she was Michael in drag...
Snoop:Gang member. Hell of a drug seller. All of that negative stuff that I ain't even f----- with in four or five years. It's cool to bring it up, but damn, I ain't did it in years, so why are you stressing...
...Clayton] McCaffery scored his goal and we thought it was nice for him. Then [Earl] Cronan and [Bruce] Gardiner put it in, and we were all thinking, damn, we came so close...
Glittering on the horizon are Carousel, in a staging that is already a hit in London, and Damn Yankees, now a smash at San Diego's Old Globe Theater. Both concern the collision of the supernatural and the everyday, the former with tragic dimensions and the latter with bawdily comic ones. Carousel has been reimagined in its physical production; Yankees, full of passe baseball references and bygone mores between men and women, has undergone a revamping of its book. Both have the potential to make the best possible case for revivals: they are far better than anything new that...