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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...
Others watched every minute and found their thinking altered as a result. In Chicago, Nancy Reif settled her suit against Healthco International just one month before the hearings. Today, as she remembers the colleagues who commented on the size of her nipples and made lewd gestures, she regrets her decision. "Anita Hill would have given me the confidence to take this all the way to court," she says. Other plaintiffs have found that the hearings helped give them credibility. Former steelworker Cindy Chrisulis says that before the hearings, her charges of verbal abuse against a co-worker in Loraine, Ohio...
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...