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...first time in more than 60 years, the Senate Commerce Committee proposed a ban on pornography in cyberspace. The plan, known as the Communications Decency Act of 1995, would make it a crime, punishable by up to $100,000 and two years in jail, to transmit "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy or indecent" images, E-mail, text files and any other form of communication online...
...Ross seems incapable of making any move in his love life without polling everybody at the coffee bar. In one episode he is flustered when a new girlfriend wants him to talk dirty to her. For advice he goes to studly friend Joey, who coaxes him into "practicing" some lewd love talk on him. "C'mon, if you can't talk dirty to me, how you gonna talk dirty to her?" says Joey. "Now tell me you want to caress my butt...
...Internet is a surprisingly lewd place. After the recent Crimson article on downloading pornography from the 'Net, FM decided to find out just what Internet resources were available for users interested in erotica. We were only acting in the sake of journalism, of course...
...invoke outside gangsta rap and the barracks. "Remember," says language expert and New York Times columnist William Safire, "it's so offensive that Barbara Bush didn't use it but said that what Geraldine Ferraro was 'rhymes with rich.' " Defined by Webster as "the female of the dog, a lewd or immoral woman," it is uttered -- but usually only in private -- about such strong women as Margaret Thatcher, Jeane Kirkpatrick and Roseanne. Colorado Representative Pat Schroeder, who pressed for an investigation of Tailhook, says she has been called the "Wicked Bitch of the West" for her trouble. T shirts trumpeting...
...largest law firm, to pay Rena Weeks, who worked in 1991 as a secretary at the firm, $6.9 million in punitive damages in a harassment suit. Weeks accused Martin Greenstein, a former Baker & McKenzie partner, of dropping candies in a pocket of her blouse, groping her breasts and making lewd remarks. The jury found that the firm had failed to take action to stop his behavior. Baker & McKenzie denounced the award as "grossly disproportionate to the compensatory damages awarded to the plaintiff," a mere...