Word: offending
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have to learn the ability to adapt yourself to different types of people." But the nightclub environment became stifling. "I was becoming Brock Walsh the live jukebox. All people wanted to hear was Elton John. That was the least dangerous stuff to do, if you didn't want to offend anybody...
Heavy Traffic. This is the new X-rated animated cartoon by Ralph Bakshi, the maker of the celebrated Fritz the Cat. It is usually vulgar, sometimes disgusting, and guaranteed to offend you in one way or another -- either through its occasional perversions or its ethnic stereotypes. But Heavy Traffic is good. Bakshi has discovered freedom in the cartoon form, and this is a film of poignancy and some depth. Cheri...
...times at all costs. His latest ballet is a full-length Tales of Hoffmann based on the Offenbach opera. Introduced last week at Manhattan's Lincoln Center by the American Ballet Theater, it is a shocker of another sort: an oldfashioned, behind-the-times entertainment that will offend no one, please some of the public, and bore serious balletomanes to distraction...
...Urban League that stands alone in a downtown Columbus area, and he believes that even that project, with none of Ivy Wood's difficulties, was a mistake. "The way things are, these projects have to be built in areas where they are the least likely to offend, in a poor urban setting or in out-of-the-way places. That only tends to increase the problems that low-income people face...
...court found that the words used were not constitutionally protected free speech because they were "no essential part of any exposition of ideas and [were of] slight social value." Nor was "obscene and vulgar or profane" too vague, said the court; the law simply bans language that "would clearly offend a reasonable person's sense of decency." The court did not consider whether the legislature could have achieved its purpose, with fewer constitutional hazards, by directly banning sexual advances rather than by broadly proscribing filthy language. Breaux's one-year jail sentence stands...