Word: lewdness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that one is a few harmless former spies eking out their pensions with ripping yarns about the bad old days in MI5. No, what they need over there is an Unofficial Secrets Act -- something that will stop the English underclass from converting squalid youthful memories into rude, shrewd, occasionally lewd movies of the kind that have lately been jostling away at one another -- and at our innocent colonial funny bones. As a group they form a kind of Disasterpiece Theater, more blithely brutal than typically British, and likely to prove ruinous to the national image, not to mention the tourist...
...Infocom has even come out with an "R-rated" adventure game called Leather Goddesses of Phobos ($34.95 to $39.95), which features a band of Martian sirens bent on turning earth into their "private pleasure palace." The game can be played at three levels: tame, suggestive and lewd...
Civil libertarians suggested the ruling will cramp the style of broadcasters as well as the range of subjects they are willing to discuss. Barry Lynn, an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer in Washington, D.C., noted that Stern's monologues may be rude, but they are not lewd and are "well within the bounds of protected bad taste" as guaranteed by the First Amendment. David Salniker, executive director of the Pacifica Foundation, which operates one of the stations reprimanded by the FCC, argued that the agency is far too vague about where it is drawing the line. "Does this mean that...
...famous trial began with an enthusiastic rendition of "Love Potion 9," then moved on to deliberation of evidence. The accused, Jacob P. Pill '88, of Winthrop House, had been caught running around drunk in his underwear in a lewd and lascivious manner. After deliberating for half an hour, then returning for an encore of "Love Potion 9," Justice's group delivered its decision. "We sentenced him to be exiled for all time from his place of birth, to wander forever an outcast in the trackless wastes of foreign lands." Justice remembers. "We never thought he'd take us seriously...
Stanford Athletic Director Andy Geiger made the decision to suspend the band, calling members' actions "insulting and lewd...