Word: lewdness
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...young nun and a young marine marooned together on a South Pacific island. To prove: that the public is willing to watch yet one more theological striptease-the cinemactic kind in which the moviegoer is encouraged to sit for about two hours in the dark with a faintly lewd leer on his face, and yet at the last minute is permitted to walk out of the theater wearing a pious smirk. The problem could hardly have been muffed by the dumbest director, but for some reason it was assigned to one of the brightest boys in Hollywood-John Huston, director...
...latest circulation report (3,269,954) showed a drop of almost 200,000 since last June. The bimonthly faces four libel suits* for a total of $5,000,000. The California attorney general's office is considering steps to prosecute Confidential for criminal libel and distribution of lewd material. There was good reason to doubt that the klieg-lit legislators would effectively police bedroom journalism, or indeed should. In fact, by emphasizing the zeal with which the leer-and-smear brigade sifts its dirt, the senate hearings lent some support to the smut-peddlers' argument that scurrility...
...sickening. When you say an admitted stream of carnal suggestiveness is fit for your readers' attention because it is expertly served up, you insult your reader's moral integrity by implying that he has none. Elia Kazan may have had puritanic motives, but look at the lewd billboard and newspaper ballyhoo that sings the seductive praises of Baby Doll. Who's kidding whom...
...naughty Chinese paintings dating from about 1750, 2) some spicy Parisian lithographs, 3) a handful of wooden and stone phallic symbols from China, 4) a little 18th century tome titled The Lascivious Hypocrite, or The Triumphs of Vice, 5) a rather obscene Japanese scroll, 6) filthy drawings and lewd notations, tagged simply, "lavatory wall inscriptions...
Newsday decided to set a trap for the bounder. It ran another letter, signed by Staffer Gwen Risedorf, also protesting the shortage of jobs. .When the telephone rang last week in Mrs. Risedorf's home, the caller carried on a lewd conversation, made a date with Reporter Risedorf. When he showed up, the waiting cops pounced, arrested Donald J. Shannon, 33. He promptly pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct. There was only one embarrassing note in Newsday's fine detective work. Shannon turned out to be a Newsday employee-a district circulation manager. He was promptly fired...