Word: flynt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Larry Flynt on Hustler...
Cincinnati has finally hustled Larry Flynt out of town. A few years back they indicted him for bribing a policeman with the services of a prostitute and for sodomy. The case fell though, but last month's rematch between the morally outraged D.A. of the midwest and the morally outrageous publisher of Hustler magazine culminated in a startling decision. Flynt was convicted of pandering obscene material and engaging in organized crime...
...anger which surrounds it. Everyone who has voiced public disapproval of the court decision, from Nat Hentoff and Nora Ephron to the New York Times, has prefaced his comments with a strong statement deploring the "offensiveness" of Hustler. Journalists are rushing to protect not the odious Larry Flynt but rather the principle of the first amendment, in other words, themselves. This ruffled condemnation and self-consciously fierce separation of Flynt's magazine and the principles it depends on makes the message of the American press quite clear. We are fighting the good fight but for someone who disgusts us, someone...
...Larry Flynt, of course, is very much "one of us" but more on that later. Flynt is a burly red-haired man who looks more like a truck-driver than the publisher of the third largest men's magazine. (Last year that ordinal number meant over twenty million dollars in profit.) Hustler, in fact, celebrates the myth of the hard-drivin' fast-cussin' mean-fisted truckdrivers. They are the last American heroes, a lone breed of tough guys blazing down the pike at a speed that would turn a "pansyass" as white as his collar. Flynt talks slowly, firmly...
Perhaps these are the qualities which make his regular appearances on the Tomorrow Show the prize of late night television. In an interview taped soon after the Cincinnati conviction, Tom Snyder, full of indignant fluster, demanded to know how Flynt could publish a magazine which so egregiously corrupted the minds of readers. Flynt reminded Snyder that experts (most notably the recent Commission on Obscenity and Pornography) had not been able to establish the link between reading obscenity and committing obscene acts. If in fact pornography is dangerous, mused Flynt, just contemplate the ravaged minds of all the psychologists and assistant...