Word: lewd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THEN on to another Let it Bleed cut, "Midnight Rambler," a harpsy Chicago blues thing with a long instrumental break, the real knockout of the concert. Jagger gets down on his knees and thousands of heads crane to see what lewd nasty he's doing, so he takes off his belt, swinging his arms back and smashing it to the stage at the end of each line...
...keeps coming back. To stem the descent, an instructor of English at Eastern Michigan University has developed a novel defense. Roger C. Staples, 34, recently complained to local postal authorities that several firms, ranging from Sears to J. C. Penney, were deluging his Ann Arbor home with unwanted "lewd" mail...
Older and presumably wiser heads, shuddering from beyond the generation gap, inclined to the latter view. In Tenino, local residents tried (and failed) to get the courts to close down the festival before it opened. "The lewd and loose will swing and sway," the Dallas Morning News editorialized. Everywhere the populace and the police braced for disaster. But the young again confounded their critics. True, drugs were easily available. There were one death (of a heart attack), one birth and three marriages. But no violence. Fewer than 150 youngsters were arrested-most of them on charges of indecent exposure...
...makes love to her (while taking blue movies with a remote-control camera), then tosses her out into the street. Doesn't all the naked grappling and wrestling qualify as dirty? Not at all, says Anna earnestly. "It's not one bit in the category of lewd films because the wife goes back to her husband in the end. She is not just cheating her husband because her emotions are involved. She is basically a woman of our time. A very honest woman who has a moment of tragedy...
Adultery, fornication and homosexual acts were also against the law, as was "lascivious carriage," a curious catchall offense loosely defined as "conduct which is wanton, lewd or lustful and tending to produce voluptuous emo tions." All that has now been changed...