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...county jails. These statistics do not include arrests for drunken driving or assaults caused by drinking. Arrests for plain public drunkenness total about 26,000 a year in San Francisco, 66,000 in Chicago, 80,000 in Los Angeles-while chronic drunks travel an endless circuit from gutter to cell to gutter before their final trip to the morgue. "It is hard to imagine a drearier example of the futile use of penal sanctions," says New York's Chief City Magistrate John M. Murtagh. In New York, at least, the courts demand proof of actual disorderly conduct...
...language "clearly debased sex and insulted it." This very un-Victorian and quite contemporary observation points up the fact that much sexual humor in today's novels and plays is based on homosexuality, perversion and nonconsummation. In his nightclub act, Bruce used unscrubbed words that are common gutter patois for incest, sodomy and excrement. His words would hardly shock Army veterans, let alone Chaucer readers. But the two-judge majority found him guilty under a New York State law which forbids any "obscene, indecent, immoral or impure" public performances...
...Skid Row moviehouse and for 50 years comforted every bench warmer, panhandler and swillbelly with a quarter here, a nip there, believing that more organized forms of charity were doomed because "you ain't goin' to get a bum in a mission if there's a gutter to sleep in"; after a long illness; in Manhattan...
...chance to go ape. She gibbers, growls, simpers, screeches; rolls her eyes, tears her hair, rattles the bars, climbs the walls, bawls a snatch of Alouette, jabs a villain's eyes out with some jagged metal strips; and at the climax, screaming like mad, crawls through the nearest gutter in a $400 negligee. Attagirl, Ollie...
...city on the Continent. It was also filthy, racked by poverty and raddled by crime. Through the dark jungle of Paris' nights slipped a curious cloaked observer, Nicolas-Edme Restif de la Bretonne. Part journalist, part novelist, part police spy, Restif was described by Havelock Ellis as "a gutter Rousseau." and has become something of a literary cult figure in France today. In Les Nuits de Paris, here translated into English for the first time, Restif created a unique record of the lower depths in all their gamy variety on the eve and in the first years...