Word: excrementalism
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...City Police Department. As head cop in the bohemian quarter of Manhattan's Lower East Side, Fink mans a little-known frontier of the law: preventive enforcement. At a time when young nonconformists tend to see cops as oppressors, call them pigs to their faces and even fling excrement at them, Fink stands all but alone as a policeman who has learned how to handle the discontented young...
...delivering a scatological monologue at the Café Au Go Go, a Greenwich Village coffeehouse. In the criminal trial, Judges John M. Murtagh and J. Randall Creel said that Bruce had "clearly debased sex and insulted it," in addition to using basic English synonyms for incest, sodomy and excrement. Thus, they ruled, Bruce had exceeded all three of the U.S. Supreme Court guidelines that currently determine legal obscenity. These guidelines state that material is obscene if it appeals dominantly to prurient interest, breaches contemporary standards relating to the description or presentation of sexual matters, and "utterly" lacks redeeming social value...
...that punished Wynne. Though he was sometimes beaten, the primary torture was calculated degradation aimed at reducing Wynne to a broken, pliable animal. He never had adequate clothes or blankets for the harsh Rus sian winters. He was forced to live amid the stench of his own excrement...
...efforts of Asian leaders, it is likely that the odor of Asian corruption will linger for some time to come, though perhaps not with the ripe impact achieved by an independent legislator in South Korea's National Assembly, when he dumped a can of human excrement over a row of Cabinet ministers he accused of letting smugglers operate in the country. Progress is needed on every front-social, economic, political. Education is an imperative, for a well-informed electorate will hold to closer account the officials of a democratic government. And opposition parties must be encouraged so that voters...
...course of that controversy, an opposition delegate to the National Assembly, shouting "Eat this saccharin!" threw the Assembly into confusion by hurling a can of human excrement at a group of surprised members of Park's Cabinet. He was protesting what he charged was government connivance in the smuggling. The Cabinet ministers resigned in anger, but Park quickly reappointed them. Lee finally smoothed over the situation by offering the government a 51% interest in the new fertilizer plant...