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Word: porn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rose's dressing room one evening a gorgeous Valkyrie in Junior League pearls and a tastefully pleated white skirt. The two women fawn and coo over one another in an absolute travesty of lesbian affection. Rydell handles the entire scene and topic with the leering prurience of a porn director. He offers up to us his Bryant-esque theory of homosexual women: when that rare "good man" ain't around, another broad will do, but when the real McCoy rears its head, both literally and figuratively, the other woman is naturally and immediately banished. After all, it's only normal...

Author: By Deirdre M. Donahue, | Title: Janis-Faced Rose | 11/30/1979 | See Source »

...Bertolucci never integrates this incest into the broader context of film. The only truly startling moment in the film occurs when Joey plunges a for into his arm. That's shocking. The single men who came with hats over their laps were sorely disappointed; Luna is not soft-core porn for the artsy...

Author: By Deirdre M. Donahue, | Title: Mooning Over Mom | 11/2/1979 | See Source »

...they do it eight blocks down?" an incensed Toyota dealer asked. "Why are they marching here? If you wanna stop it, protest in front of the (porn) stores. I think what they're doing is stupid. they're tying up the whole city...

Author: By Cheryl R. Devall, | Title: Hitting the Hard Core Of the Big Apple | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...idea of an anti-porn march met opposition from various sources. Many people who call themselves politically progressive refused to support WAP because they fear the organization's stand against pornography is tantamount to censorship. A host of civil rights groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, which recently showed pornographic films at a fundraiser in San Diego, lambasted WAP for its apparent opposition to First Amendment rights for publishers and dealers in the business. And feminists of both sexes, believing that the movement's energy could be better spend elsewhere, chose not to get involved in the issue...

Author: By Cheryl R. Devall, | Title: Hitting the Hard Core Of the Big Apple | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...district, provoking varied responses from the bystanders there. The atmosphere became more volatile as the demonstrators approached the sex merchants. A prostitute and several male shop-owners gave the protestors the finger when they passed by their stores, stopping in front of some and shouting "Close them down!" and "Porn is violence...

Author: By Cheryl R. Devall, | Title: Hitting the Hard Core Of the Big Apple | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

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