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...also attends a cell meeting of the fanatically Catholic Legion of Mary. Espied by the legionnaires as a potential recruit, she is asked to help out at a catechism class for a gaggle of foulmouthed, streetwise little hoydens, whose recitation of the Hail Mary sounds "taunting and lewd, like a jeering chant from an angry crowd at a football game." After one lass gives a jaunty account of Christ's miracle of the loaves and fishes, Sister Keating, the teacher, asks, " 'And what do we call that, Jane...
...segment called Charts and Graphs -- "Dyslexics' Favorite Beatles," featuring names like ULAP and OGNRI; the host said it made fun of a serious disability. Comedian Jeff Altman, another Letterman pal from the Comedy Store days, remembers a guest appearance on Late Night in which he made a lewd crack that included the word "genitals." Letterman didn't laugh, and Altman complained about it later at dinner. "I said, 'You could have helped me out a little there.' Dave said, "Maybe you shouldn't have said that...
...policy debates of do-gooders are a world away from Bombay's Falkland Road district, where 8,000 prostitutes are packed into rabbit-warren brothels. There, on a hot, listless afternoon, Manju flashes an inviting smile, beckoning passersby with lewd remarks and suggestive body movements. With the fair skin and lovely slanted eyes of the Nepalese, so exotic to Indian men, she attracts an average of seven customers a day. Her fee: $1 each -- of which the brothel owner, a squat, brutal woman, takes more than half. Despite her sexy put-on, her shiny blue dress cut above the knee...
...long-distance cinema" by transmitting "still" pictures over radio waves from Washington to Philadelphia. U.S. Navy astronomer Captain Thomas Jefferson Jackson See denounced Albert Einstein as a fraud. Birth control was a subject of passionate debate, and in fact was forbidden under the U.S. penal code ("Every obscene, lewd or lascivious book . . . designed for preventing conception or producing abortion . . . is hereby declared to be non-mailable matter"). As this last item suggests, some attitudes do change. What has not changed in 70 years, however, is our determination to ensure that TIME still holds together, makes sense, stays interesting...
Martinez, 19, began appearing au naturel last September, having led a campus "nude-in" to protest social repression. Campus police arrested him, but the county prosecutor refused to prosecute, concluding that nudity without lewd behavior was not illegal. The university then banned nudity. Martinez persisted, until some female students charged that his behavior constituted sexual harassment. That did it. "Yes, we're a bastion of free expression," a university spokesman explained. "But first and foremost we're a bastion of higher education." Thrown out of school, Martinez plans to write a book about his experience...