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Word: lewdness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Implicit in all these controversies over sexual privacy has been the admirable social goal of protecting and supporting the family. The traditional religious taboos probably once had a similar goal. Government lawmakers simply followed that tradition (Burger's "Judeo-Christian moral and ethical standards") when they tried to ban lewd movies or lewd whatever, and the Justices did much the same, even in their Georgia sodomy ruling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Individual Is Sovereign | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

...wander from Hamlet and Moby Dick to Tough Marriage and Eat to Succeed. Although fiction is the most beguiling, self-help books are in greatest demand: The One Minute Manager, In Search of Excellence, 21 Days to Stop Smoking. On occasion, more calorific titles come into earshot: Totally Lewd Limericks, How to Make Love to a Man (prefaced by the warning "This tape contains explicit and graphic language which may be considered offensive"). The voices on the talking books may be stars, such as Michael York (Anna Karenina), Michael Learned (The Scarlet Letter) and Jason Robards (Anatomy of an Illness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heard Any Good Books Lately? | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

Prince is all over this film, running around in clothes that are somewhere between 13th century Paris fashion and New York new wave chic. Prince is lewd, rude and constantly coy with the audience and the camera...

Author: By Christopher J. Farley, | Title: A Sweet Cherry Moon | 7/11/1986 | See Source »

...survey on sexual harassment revealed that 34 percent of undergraduate women had experienced some form of sexual harassment, loosely defined as anything from lewd jokes and suggestive comments to unwanted touching or rape. A subsequent survey, which used a stricter definition of harassment, revealed a much smaller percent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Opening Pandora's Box | 6/5/1986 | See Source »

...survey on sexual harassment revealed that 34 percent of the undergraduate women experienced some form of sexual harassment, loosely defined as anything from lewd jokes and suggestive comments, to unwanted touching, to rape. The report also found that the likelihood that a woman will be harassed increases the longer she is at Harvard...

Author: By Alison L. Jernow, | Title: Fighting for Awareness: Harvard Date Rape | 4/17/1986 | See Source »

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