Word: gamier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...daughters, aged five and 15, are kidnaped and sold to a Paris bordello, after which a band of reformers, led by Lenton's wife and the Salvation Army, cleans up Great Britain-never envisioning that Piccadilly and Soho would one day witness the blossoming of newer and gamier sex-traffic jams...
...five-year rap for circulating the now defunct magazines Eros and Liaison and a so-called psychological study titled The Housewife's Handbook on Selective Promiscuity. While Eros gets high marks from assorted literary eminences, the court is unlikely to be edified by Ginzburg's gamier products, which he mailed from Middlesex, N.J., having failed to get postal privileges at Intercourse...
...Scott Newhall, 49, operates one of the wackiest circuses in modern U.S. journalism. Newhall boasts that the Chronicle subscribes to nearly every news service available, yet there is rarely much room for the sober cerebrations served up by the London Times or the Manchester Guardian. Top priority goes to gamier stuff-the case of the "Toothbrush Wife" who tried to fry her husband by short-circuiting his electric toothbrush, a campaign to clothe naked animals, a scare-headline crime wave based on some scattered muggings and holdups. It is a wonder that Newhall has room even for that sort...
...freely admits that, since television has forced Hollywood to unbutton its themes, the Music Hall has had to change its standards. Its record moneymakers-The Great Caruso, Mister Roberts, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers-reflect the sort of choices the Music Hall once preferred, but now Downing is accepting gamier movies such as Parrish, Suzie Wong and Where the Boys Are, explaining his selections with the sequined rationalization that they reflect "a way of life...