Word: obsceneã
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Since the eBay auction and subsequent backtracking by FleetCenter representatives—one of whom called the “Jeter” name “obscene??—the lawyer has received calls from the New York Times, ESPN, and NBC, among others...
...Boccaccio’s Decameron, all of which were banned in the United States under the Comstock Law of 1873, prohibiting the sale of “lewd,” “indecent,” “filthy,” or “obscene?? materials—and not without reason. Many a perspicacious frat boy has perked up during an otherwise soporific lecture on, say, “The Miller’s Tale,” in appreciative recognition of cognates which, to invoke Justice Potter Stewart?...
...cannot be said (and when) on network television is bound by complicated legal codes. Due to this strange condition, for last week’s Grammy Awards telecast, CBS employed an astounding 5-minute video delay to preempt any “indecent” or “obscene?? material from finding its way into living rooms nationwide. In the wake of the silly Super Bowl controversy, NBC deleted a brief scene from the Feb. 5 episode of “ER,” which revealed the breast of an elderly woman. With the FCC looming...
...studying it and engineering it and designing it, and it came out to approximately 5,300 square feet for $4 million; and if you divide those numbers you come up with a square footage cost that I don’t think the word “obscene?? is appropriate for. In your introduction, you used the word “crisis.” There’s no doubt about it, it’s a crisis. Harvard has a space crisis, not just an arts crisis. In the long run, what happens across the river...
This fracas should not concern free speech, when the creators themselves acknowledge they had nothing profound to say. Transforming the question of free speech to defend displays like the snow phallus – created not in spite of it being obscene, but because it was obscene??corrupts the First Amendment’s legitimacy as a valid defense for real artistic expression...