Word: lewd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exhibitionism. Most recently, the San Francisco police raided two North Beach nightclubs, the Condor and the Off-Broadway, and dragged both proprietors into court. The Off-Broadway, which offers topless waitresses along with such name performers as Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Kenton and Trini Lopez, was accused of operating "a lewd and obscene exhibition" and of "conduct outraging public decency...
...that the girls had been made to incriminate themselves, since nobody had told them they could refuse to have their pictures taken in the nonattire they were not wearing when they were arrested. Municipal Judge Leo Friedman concurred, further ruled that bare bosoms, in and of themselves, are neither lewd, lascivious nor obscene, and advised the jury to return a verdict of not guilty. The jury complied...
...lead role, both verbally and mimetically. As the professor became increasingly less fatuous and more monstruous, Montoya's characterization kept pace. He was fully able to express the variety of moods demanded by the part, from the timid but pompous gentleman of the beginning to the frenzied, lewd murderer of the climax. His fluent dialogue was matched by a physical command of the role, as much in his comic pantomimes before an invisible blackboard as in his sinister posture just before the murder, when he crouches next to his victim like something inhuman...
...plot collapses around Shirley MacLaine, cast as a girl reporter who infiltrates the seraglio of King Fawz (Peter Ustinov) looking for a lewd scoop and discovers the missing Goldfarb (Richard Crenna) instead. One night, summoned to Fawz for fondling, Shirley rubs down with garlic, dons a fright wig, blacks out her teeth, stuffs upholstery under her skirts and bounces onto the sheik's bed screeching: "Come on, honey, ain't you gonna sing me a dirty song?" He doesn't, but if he did, it would be one of the movie's lesser offenses against taste...
Classic or simply crummy, the bulk of modern English lewd literature first tumbled into print in the Paris loft of Maurice Girodias, 45, proprietor of Olympia Press. Now, laments the first publisher of Tropic of Cancer, The Black Book, Lolita, Fanny Hill and Candy, "our role is ended." Through the imposition, by his count, of 60 bans, 100 lawsuits and six suspended prison sentences, the French government has finally got through to Girodias. "The astonishing truth is," he says, "that moral and artistic freedom have now become a reality in Britain and the U.S., whereas the same concepts are being...