Word: fleshly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bided his time in quiet rage. As Carnival began in 1580, the festivities were supercharged with hatred between competing camps of revelers. The parades of these mock "kingdoms" had sinister overtones. Masquers of Paumier's Sheep Kingdom carried rakes, brooms and flails, wore shrouds and grimly offered "Christian flesh" for sale. Guerin's ostentatious Partridge Kingdom mocked the poorer townsmen with price lists offering luxuries for a pittance. More immediately threatening was the Partridge army-a real one - whose men carried new arquebuses and long Swiss pikes. The troops went into action during the notables' masked ball...
...what he reports. All the relevations are believable, even predictable, but why print them? Justice Potter Stewart said in a 1964 decision that he could not define pornography. "But I know it when I see it," his decision concludes. Since the Constitution does little to outline how much flesh is protected by the first amendment, and since the Court history on the issue has been a hodge-podge of fairly feeble arguments--from "utterly without redeeming social value" to the more recent "community standards" test--it is obvious that pornography has always been what the individual Supreme Court justices decide...