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...careful to tell the states to be precise in drawing up their laws on sexual conduct, Burger was remarkably imprecise in his own definition. Sexual conduct can, in his view, include "patently offensive representations or descriptions of masturbation, excretory functions, and lewd exhibition of the genitals" as well as "ultimate sexual acts, normal or perverted." But "patently offensive" by whose standards...
...read the letters responding to your story about Last Tango and was astounded. I read your article and saw nothing lewd or obscene in it, nothing that isn't talked about in our elementary school...
...much the same course as The Sunlight Dialogues: In The Wreckage of Agathon, an old, muddled Athenian seer is imprisoned in Sparta for aiding the Helot rebellion. Using this one dominating character, set apart from the world, Gardner waxes and wanes between the philosophical and the lewd, providing an overview that is at once serious and hilarious. Again, in Grendel, the monster's ability to stand back and look at man from a unique perspective makes the novel both exciting and valuable reading. This remains true even after the novelty of relating the Beowulf epic has worn...
...school in the Midlands and ever since, he has worked at his profession energetically but not flamboyantly. After six months in repertory in Coventry, he took a job at the Royal Court Theater in London, then landed in John Osborne's Look Back in Anger, the brash, lewd play that brought new life and a new generation to the anemic English stage of the '50s. "It took everybody by the ears," Bates says, "and marked a whole new way of thinking in the British theater...
...mild compared with the puerile and unsportsmanlike behavior that marked much of the series. Soviet team officials demanded that Canadian Coach Harry Sinden order Defenseman Gary Bergman to stop skating past baronial Russian Coach Vsevolod Bobrov during games, on the ground that Bergman was making menacing gestures and lewd comments. In turn, Sinden complained about a Russian player making "crazy-in-the-head gestures" at Assistant Canadian Coach John Ferguson. When a West German referee handed out a two-minute interference penalty to Minnesota's Jean-Paul Parise during the final game, the Canadian player charged toward him threateningly...