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Word: lewdness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...difficult role of Corday's lover Duperet, Ben Evett is hilariously lewd, while Laurie Gallueto is equally effective in the role of Simonne Evrard, the head of Charenton, who tries to neal her patients through participation in art. At the same time, she is the censor of the play, who interrupts subversive talk and menacingly reminds the crazies that "everything is being done to alleviate sufferings." Pale and stone-faced, she makes the audience's blood run cold...

Author: By Jane Avrich, | Title: One Big Batty Family | 11/15/1984 | See Source »

...fashion industry was well pleased that Milan had played up bright colors and soft contours. It has been borrowing heavily from menswear tailoring and proportions, so that by last season the code word androgyny was used even by people who had a sneaking feeling that it meant something lewd. The Japanese influence, with its cool rejection of human anatomy, was at its height in 1983 as well. Clothing got heavy and neutral and business slowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: It's That Old Short Story Again | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

...local example of such communications was the letter sent last year by members of the Harvard Pi Eta Club, which referred to women in terms that can be fairly described as lewd, insulting, and grossly demeaning. The same issue can arise in the case of speeches or communications that are patently anti-Semitic or vulgarly abusive toward people because of their sexual orientation. Although such statements are deplorable, they are presumed to be protected under the Constitution and should be equally so on the campus as well. Why? The critical question is. Whom will we trust to censor communications...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Open Letter | 9/21/1984 | See Source »

...these circumstances, the University has a legitimate interest in seeing to it that the band observes some limits on the material it uses, and the audience has an interest in not having to listen--or have their children listen--to material that seems, by generally prevailing standards, offensive, lewd, or in grossly bad taste. It is Dean Epps' unenviable task to see to it that these legitimate interests are protected while giving as much latitude as possible to the creative impulses of the band...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Open Letter | 9/21/1984 | See Source »

...jumped bond, violated parole, fled jail or failed to show up in court to face earlier charges. Among the newly liberated: a 25-year-old Oakland man with 26 earlier arrests for grand theft and selling narcotics; a 22-year-old woman accused of forcible rape, prostitution and committing lewd acts with children; and a 21-year-old drug dealer with a previous arrest record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Open Fist | 4/9/1984 | See Source »

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