Word: lewdness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
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...
...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...
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...