Word: gutter
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There is humor in our predicament: we have driven sexuality out of the house and into the gutter. Now we are horrified to find it proliferating in a hundred mutant forms. What would seem the obvious solution is to restore the human dignity of the erotic impulse and return it to decent society...
...your best behavior, so the bus stopped down there someplace and you got out and looked around and all the people around you were real mean-looking and not-particularly-dressed-up either and coming out of XXX Bookstores and lying in the gutter, so you went into the theater and saw this show with happy songs--"happiness is two kinds of ice cream"--and a dog that sings and guy whose kite won't fly, only you didn't laugh at any of the jokes 'cause they weren't funny, only the chaperone...
...subsequent tumble. After the Guardian, Daily Mirror, Daily Mail and Daily Express all carried front-page photos of the elder statesman's dive, the lordly Times weighed in with a cane-wagging editorial scolding them for lack of "compassion and delicacy" in showing George-Brown "fallen in the gutter." Perhaps, the Times added sarcastically, the other papers "resented his infringing their monopoly" there...
Jewish writers have contributed to American literature a new style that fuses "gutter street wisdom and graduate school learning," author Irving Howe said in a speech at Harvard Hall yesterday...
...combination of ultra-rightist, 19th century political values and a unique, personality-oriented, gutter-sniping editorial style, modeled on the journalistic mode of the now defunct Hearst papers, have made Loeb the best known publisher in America. His power base is the Manchester Union Leader, which he bought in 1946, the only state-wide newspaper in New Hampshire. He is also the principal owner of the New Hampshire Sunday News and the Vermont Sunday News. For a good example of where he is at stylistically--if not politically--one might turn to the New Hampshire Sunday paper's response...