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...came to Los Angeles' Mirror-News Columnist Paul V. Coates on Christmas Eve. In Riverside, Calif., Coates was told, a prisoner had been in jail for twelve days. Reason for the prisoner's arrest, as stated in the official record: he was "in danger of leading a lewd and immoral life." Age of the prisoner: seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Prisoner | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

...marriage and romance show in painstaking detail how a young man of good family once lived, wedded and loved. Herbert's story is a chilling indication of what life could be like for serfs and the members of a noble family when the lord was hard, lewd and avaricious. Old Ansiau's pilgrimage, full of pathos and compassion, cuts to the heart of a century in which deep religious feeling and incredible brutality could exist side by side. In her novel (a Book-of-the-Month Club selection), Author Oldenbourg has woven a huge and intricate tapestry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Medieval Tapestry | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

...Hazel Flagg (TIME, Feb. 23, 1953), and who has been described as having a "ball-and-socket pelvis," learned from a federal court m Los Angeles that two of her early films (now popular in the stag-party circuit) were not, as the Post Office suggested, "obscene, lewd and lascivious." Said Judge Ernest A. Tolin: "To say the films (How to Be an Exotic Dancer, The Waste-Basket Blues) have no reference to sex would be naive in the ultimate . The movements ... are not particularly different from those of the popular dances of the day. The costumes . . . while something considerably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Newsreel, Dec. 6, 1954 | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

...theater was closed by order of the city's vice squad on Nov. 10 because its shows were found to be "obscene and lewd...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Old Howard Will open With 'Modified' Show | 2/16/1954 | See Source »

...strongest and most piquant critical epithets alphabetically, with composers to whom they have been applied. Samples: advanced cat music (Wagner), belly-rumbling (Bela Bartok), bestial outcries (Alban Berg), bleary-eyed paresis (Tchaikovsky), chaos (Bartok, Berg, Berlioz, Brahms, Liszt, Mussorgsky, Prokofiev, Scriabin, Strauss, Wagner), intoxicated woodpecker (Edgar Varèse), lewd caterwauling (Wagner), mass-snoring (Bartok), nasty little noise (Debussy), spring fever in a zoo (Stravinsky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lexicon for Critics | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

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