Word: lewd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sexual favors, are the easiest to litigate, but they are a relative rarity. As men and women both learned in the endless press coverage and office memos that followed the hearings, the most common form of harassment falls under the "hostile environment" umbrella, and may involve anything from lewd jokes to unwelcome physical contact. Many bosses still consider such complaints insignificant, and company procedures and policies often remain vague. As a result, most women continue to fear that if they cry harassment, they will be ignored, stigmatized, even fired...
Though platonic themes occasionally move us, the sexual themes consistently engender the funniest jokes. Like Crowe's other films, Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Say Anything, Singles is a film whose lewd lines innumerable adolescents will memorize and chew as cud. One of the more long-lasting laughs comes after Steve, in a childhood flashback, confuses spam with sperm while discussing procreation with the boys...
...Throughout his literary career he has played endlessly with the notions of bisexuality or transsexuality. If readers find the new novel repellent, it may be that it is no longer easy to laugh at scenes in which Nero rapes Timothy ("Tighten those beautiful little buns") or to laugh off lewd goings-on along the missionary trail...
...makes a lewd comment. Woman instantly sizes him up: "Is there a brain up there, or just one long episode of Studs...
Seen in that light, the revelations about lewd shenanigans at the Tailhook convention of Navy and Marine aviators last September, which have already cost Navy Secretary H. Lawrence Garrett III his job, may be a blessing in disguise. Much as race riots in 1972 led to racial reforms within the Navy, the Tailhook debacle is prompting a serious campaign to stamp out sexual harassment. Acting Navy Secretary Daniel Howard last week ordered a service-wide stand-down so that all personnel can devote a full day to sexual-harassment training. And on Capitol Hill four women recounted tales of sexual...