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...next day, but never at a public event. As President, an individual is expected to maintain a quality of dignity. A quality of aloofness. Yes, of course, to be friendly too, but people don't want the President of the United States to be a little sloppy or lewd or vulgar. They want to think he is one of them but not too much so. If they see the President kicking up his heels, eating too much or drinking too much, the confidence factor is weakened. People want to think that if there is a crisis, he will be cool...
...discovered years ago that large groups of single young people are willing to pay higher rent for the summer than families will normally ante up. The problem, observed the New Jersey Supreme Court, is that "unquestionably, and regrettably, excessive noise at all hours, wild parties, intoxication, acts of immorality, lewd and lascivious conduct, and traffic and parking congestion often accompany these group rentals." The court was considering two local zoning laws that bar such group arrangements in the oceanside towns of Manasquan and Belmar. Though the court sympathized with the towns' desire for quiet, it unanimously found the laws...
...course, it's silly to treat Andy Warhol seriously. Flesh is lewd, boring, perverse, fitfully amusing, spastically imaginative, and definitely kicky. So is Andy. And so, in our better moments, are most...
...brick, and dexterous fingers, but the result is so gratifying that the time spent duplicating the mind-boggling Origami dough-folding patterns required pays itself off in spades. What is more, there are few smells more sensual than a kitchen redolent of warm yeast, few sounds more lewd than a gasping piece of pressed dough, few instincts more carnal than those aroused between a cook and his fetal loaf...
Yesterday Seth "Dr. E." Many and Carolyn "Whammo" Peck of the Lewd Commune went to Middlesex County Superior Court to appeal their conviction for "open and gross lewdness," which carries a possible sentence of 30 days to three years. The judge took their motion under advisement...