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Scatological Satires. But when it comes to sheer shock value, no one can match the Fugs. The Fugs have no use for innuendo: they lay it right on the line. While such ditties as Wet Dream over You and Group Grope (which features two simulated orgasms) are obvious even to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock 'n' Roll: Going to Pot | 7/1/1966 | See Source »

...And when grown-up you'll do well

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TOT SOTS | 1/26/1966 | See Source »

No one ever begged him to grow up, and he never did. He traveled with a child's restless, wide-eyed curiosity. "Oh what a noble achievement!" he said, riding his first train. "We fly like the clouds in a storm." He met Dickens, Hugo, Dumas, Lamartine, Kierkegaard, Ibsen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Once Upon a Time | 12/24/1965 | See Source »

He likes to shock mildly stuffy people, though it's not the Edward Albee bludgeon of agonized revelation but the pinch of a grown-up undergrad. He served up Peace Corps Sally in the same spirit that he offered conversation at Radcliffe, breaking the white tablecloth and candlelight quiet of...

Author: By Gregory P. Pressman, | Title: Arthur Kopit | 12/16/1965 | See Source »

Turning to the Oscar awards, Preminger said they were "honest and really quite fair." But he thought all the advertising for the awards is somewhat ridiculous. "It's a game," he said, "No grown-up person can really take it seriously."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Genius Is A Good Film for $150,' Preminger Tells Kirkland Audience | 12/5/1964 | See Source »

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