Word: prurient
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...automatically entitled to First Amendment protection unless the state can prove that it is obscene. Relying on U.S. Supreme Court doctrine, the California justices declared that the state had the burden of proving that the dominant theme of Kelley's dance "taken as a whole appeals to a prurient interest," is "utterly without redeeming social value" and affronts "contemporary community standards." In fact, said the justices, the state had failed to introduce expert testimony to prove that Kelley's act went beyond the community's standards of decency...
Dali on Dali in (some) words and (many) pictures. Inevitably among those present: pre-pop Surrealist Dali, Prurient Dali, Renaissance Dali, and Dali, boy genius grown old. Also, on practically every page, Dali the pyrotechnician in paint, the most engaging, self-indulgent and talented decorator of his age. Appropriately wrapped, like candy, in gold tinfoil...
...journals and the accounts of his crew, he emerges as something less than the wise and civilized commander painted by Blunden's countryman Alan Moorehead in The Fatal Impact (TIME, April 8, 1966). More Bligh than blithe, even on festive occasions Cook had a provincial prudishness about prurient talk, though he showed a fondness for admiring native women through his telescope. He insisted that his men wash, but he forbade them to pray (especially when the ship was in danger, as she often was) for fear that prayer would rob them of the will to work...
Fortas' interpretations vary, depending on the case. In 1966, he voted with the 5-to-4 majority to uphold the conviction of Eros Publisher Ralph Ginzburg on grounds that he pandered to prurient interests by using overly suggestive advertising. But that did not make much of an impression upon Eastland, Thurmond and critics even farther to the right. In a large mailing, the fanatically right-wing Liberty Lobby accused Fortas of being a convinced revolutionary and a supporter of the pornography industry...
Last Frontier. Cheap girlie magazines have always catered to prurient interests, but Evergreen is not of that ilk. It was started in 1957 as a paperbound book, publishing such unknown authors as Edward Albee, James Purdy, Samuel Beckett, Allen Ginsberg. In 1964, it was turned into a slick-paper magazine with striking art work and lots of color; its scatology is elegantly framed. With a circulation of some 160,000, the magazine recently changed from a bimonthly to a monthly...