Word: lewd
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...starring in online videos and lining Chinese store toy shelves is a mythical "grass-mud horse" - whose name in Chinese sounds just like a vulgar expression involving a sex act and, well, your mother. Bawdy as it may seem, an Internet children's song about the animal, full of lewd homophones, has emerged as a galvanizing protest against the Communist government's efforts to ban "subversive" material - political dissent, most importantly - from the web. Purportedly a harmless fantasy, the wink-wink, giggle-giggle creation is a virtual thumb in the eye of China's unblinking censors...
...font of discarded, quoted, recontextualized materials—educational films, pornography reels, propaganda, B-movies, television, newsreels, quoted songs. As a filmmaker, Conner seems to revel in an almost Dadaist attitude toward a new democratic vision of art, where all materials—no matter how inane or lewd or ephemeral—can be incorporated into an artistic whole.The second, less elusive, but ultimately more personal concept is that of a love for the cinema. As much as Conner subverts the conventions of popular film—filling “A Movie” with abrupt inter-titles...
...trailed off, making circles in the air in front of his chest. He watched Roxanna as though he were waiting for something. But she could not turn her gaze from the patch of garden that she had so carefully cultivated throughout the summer. Pumpkins. Pumpkins. Those lewd gourds! Oh, her sweet petunias! Alas, her darling rosebush! The almost indecently large seeds lay, garishly white and pale and smooth, like grubs, upon the fresh soil, not two feet from her flowers. With a sudden cry of anguish, Roxanna flung her slender white hand into the dirt and flung the seeds aside...
...ordered a trial for two men arrested in July 2007 outside the Coliseum. Michele F., 36, and Roberto L., 28, contend they were caught sharing a passionate kiss; the arresting officers from the carabinieri say they were engaging in oral sex. Defense lawyers have asked for the charges of lewd public acts to be dropped, having sought in vain to get access to footage from nearby security cameras that they say would show the kiss was just a kiss...
...lewd acts have compromised the dignity of the Vietnamese people, law and common sense, and therefore it is necessary to punish him," Judge Hoang Thanh Tung said in his ruling, adding that Gadd suffered from "a sickness." Tung ordered him to pay the victims $315, and sentenced him to three years in prison. In February 2007, Gadd's sentence was shortened by three months for good behavior as part of a nationwide Lunar New Year jail amnesty...