Word: lewd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hannibal displays a disquieting streak of sadism that Harris' two previous novels involving Lecter largely avoided. In one of his many, rather portentous authorial asides, Harris states, "Now that ceaseless exposure has calloused us to the lewd and the vulgar, it is instructive to see what still seems wicked to us. What still slaps the clammy flab of our submissive consciousness hard enough to get our attention?" If Hannibal is the answer, we're in real trouble...
...Schools at Wellesley College Center for Research on Women. "Harassment is if he flips up her skirt or tries to pull down her pants. And boys can also be victims of harassment or sexual bullying." The most serious cases could involve sexual touching, bumping or grabbing, as well as lewd talk and the passing of sexually explicit pictures or notes...
...Four Weddings? There have been a few films, either financial flops, like Extreme Measures; mistakes, like Nine Months; or period dramas more memorable for the performances of others, like Sense and Sensibility. Oh, and there was his most unforgettable role of all--international whipping boy of 1995 after that "lewd act" with a certain Miss Divine Brown in a BMW off Sunset Boulevard...
...HUPD arrested a Marblehead resident outside of Memorial Church. The man was accused of lewd, wanton and lascivious conduct...
Alas--or, might we say, "Jamnation!"--the Resume Contest offers about as much wish-fulfillment as the Kendo Club offers lewd entertainment. The poster directs interested students to a Web site, where the whole thing turns out to be a disappointingly harmless psychological test. Yet there remains something eerie about it, perhaps even more so after it becomes clear that the whole thing comes no closer to fulfilling our fantasies than the promises of free hot phone sex. Psychological researchers presumably designed this poster in order to capture our attention, and the method they devised...