Word: lewd
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...lead role, both verbally and mimetically. As the professor became increasingly less fatuous and more monstruous, Montoya's characterization kept pace. He was fully able to express the variety of moods demanded by the part, from the timid but pompous gentleman of the beginning to the frenzied, lewd murderer of the climax. His fluent dialogue was matched by a physical command of the role, as much in his comic pantomimes before an invisible blackboard as in his sinister posture just before the murder, when he crouches next to his victim like something inhuman...
...plot collapses around Shirley MacLaine, cast as a girl reporter who infiltrates the seraglio of King Fawz (Peter Ustinov) looking for a lewd scoop and discovers the missing Goldfarb (Richard Crenna) instead. One night, summoned to Fawz for fondling, Shirley rubs down with garlic, dons a fright wig, blacks out her teeth, stuffs upholstery under her skirts and bounces onto the sheik's bed screeching: "Come on, honey, ain't you gonna sing me a dirty song?" He doesn't, but if he did, it would be one of the movie's lesser offenses against taste...
Classic or simply crummy, the bulk of modern English lewd literature first tumbled into print in the Paris loft of Maurice Girodias, 45, proprietor of Olympia Press. Now, laments the first publisher of Tropic of Cancer, The Black Book, Lolita, Fanny Hill and Candy, "our role is ended." Through the imposition, by his count, of 60 bans, 100 lawsuits and six suspended prison sentences, the French government has finally got through to Girodias. "The astonishing truth is," he says, "that moral and artistic freedom have now become a reality in Britain and the U.S., whereas the same concepts are being...
...Grundy career became legend, all the more quixotic because his two brothers, Painter Jacques Villon and Sculptor Duchamp-Villon, went on to make careers in art that placed them near the top of their generation. By comparison, Marcel Duchamp seemed like a naughty boy who ties enigmatic, impudent, possibly lewd messages to balloons, then lets them fly off into the blue yonder. But now, 42 years after he abandoned art, his messages have come down to earth. Far from being gibberish, the scribblings now seem cryptic formulas for the future...
...think about banning books. This subject of Massachusetts' most recent attack also figured in what is believed to be the first recorded suppression of literature on grounds of obscenity in the United States, Commonwealth v. Holmes, an 1821 case in which two Massachusetts men were indicted "for publishing a lewd and obsecene print, contained in a certain book entitled Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, and also for publishing the said book...