Word: eeeeevil
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...infallible guide to transgressive art was the Legion of Decency list posted in our local church. The Legion was a Catholic organization that rated movies for content and tone, from "A" for unobjectionable (good) to "C" for condemned (eeeeevil). For me, the "C" rating was a movie's most persuasive marketing tool. After Mass each Sunday I would check out the list, and I can say without irony that it stoked my teenage interest in foreign films, from Ingmar Bergman's "Sawdust and Tinsel" (known in the U.S. as "The Naked Night") to Luis Bu?uel's "Los Olvidados." I would...
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