Word: ferberize
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...obscene films and magazines portraying youthful sexual conduct, but of nonobscene ones as well. Bluntly put, the legislators wanted to crack down on dirty pictures of children even if the material involved was not "prurient" and "offensive" when judged by community standards. So when Manhattan Bookstore Owner Paul Ferber was sentenced in 1978 to 45 days in jail for selling two nonobscene films, he complained that his First Amendment right to free speech had been violated. Last week, with a unanimity that is rare on today's fractionated Supreme Court, the Justices handed down a landmark decision that encourages...
...abusers as adults." He also noted that a youngster is unable to prevent the invasion of his privacy that occurs each time the film or book is viewed. (No such invasion occurred at the court during consideration of this case; the Justices concluded that they could rule without studying Ferber's films...
...SUPPOSED to hold a mirror to nature, but when a play sets actors portraying actors, the theater can turn into a house of mirrors. Resonances and multiple entendres give performers a chance to show off and audiences the opportunity to smile knowingly. George Kaufman and Edna Ferber's durable comedy doesn't make too much of this complexity, not nearly as much as some other plays in the genre, like David Mamet's A Life in the Theater. The Royal Family sticks closely to the bustling, three-act comedy formula that Kaufman and his collaborators used in so many...
...days of Sam Houston, who proclaimed: "Texas could exist without the U.S., but the U.S. cannot, except at very great hazard, exist without Texas." Thanks to its flamboyant style of braggadocio, Texas is indeed among the front runners in the American art of blowing hard, excelling in what Edna Ferber called the knack of "confusing bigness with greatness." Yet the truth is that in patrician Boston the chauvinism is just as dependable, and its expression as fulsome, as anywhere, in the Lone Star State. The chauvinist spirit is more polished in Boston but, after all, it was born close...
...Royal Family, the brilliant Broadway production of George S. Kaufmann--Edna Ferber play about a flamboyant theater family strangely reminiscent of the Barrymore clan, is playing at the Wilbur Theater, 252 Tremont St., Boston. Performances are Monday through Saturday...