Word: prurient
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Government, I would do so under the title "Three Nasty Problems in the History of American Life: Race, Sex and Democracy." Such a course would examine the radical assumption, illustrated by the present controversy, that we Americans have never been able to examine our original sin of racism, our prurient love-hate relationship with sex (and its unavoidable relationship to race) and the inherent imperfections of our untidy and uncritical democracy...
Next, Kitty wanted to take on an easy target, Liz Taylor, but Stuart balked. Kitty aced herself out of her contract with him, took her proposal to Simon & Schuster, got an advance of $150,000 and in 1981 produced another prurient best seller...
WHITE PALACE. James Spader and Susan Sarandon bring so much intelligence and redeeming prurient interest to this May-September romance that the movie is almost over before you realize it's just another story of rich boy falling for poor woman. Say this, though: when...
...current Supreme Court definition of obscenity requires that a "reasonable person," applying "contemporary community standards," would find that the work appeals to the prurient interest, depicts patently offensive sexual behavior and lacks serious artistic value. Last month Judge F. David Albanese, a former assistant county prosecutor, made the defense job more difficult by ruling that the jury need only see the seven pictures at issue. Defense attorneys had argued that the Supreme Court requirement to consider the work "as a whole" meant that the jury should see all of the pictures from the Mapplethorpe show, most of them floral still...
...they indulge in huff and bluster. As for the sex that got Henry & June in trouble, it's less Millerian than Victorian. There's something wrong with a sexual film when its erotic ideal, the statuesque Thurman, is kept mostly under wraps. Ironically and fatally, Henry & June lacks redeeming prurient interest...