Word: prurient
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...male student wearing a yellow robe entered the dining room of Upstairs at the Pudding, kneeled before the guest speaker who was addressing the group and read a "satiric, prurient limerick," according to Signet member Peter C. Nohrnberg...
...pursuit of new rumors that reporters have become targets of charges that they have crossed the line. Last week Lord McGregor of Durris, the chairman of the British Press Complaints Commission, defended the notion that the royals were public property, but nonetheless called some of the stories "prurient reporting." He added, "The most recent intrusive and speculative treatment by sections of the press (and indeed by broadcasters) of the marriage of the Prince and Princess of Wales is an odious exhibition of journalists dabbling their fingers in the stuff of other people's souls...
...withstanding exhaustion, injury and humiliation in pursuit of the cash prize for the last pair standing. But the script evokes the '80s as well as the '30s and suggests the sick symbiosis, then and now, between would-be stars grabbing at a grimy corner of show business and the prurient, prying public come to watch...
...activists have been campaigning in tandem against pornography since the early '80s; city ordinances they devised for Minneapolis, Indianapolis and Bellingham, Wash., all similar to the Massachusetts bill, were rejected by courts or local officials. Their basic argument is that Supreme Court rulings on obscenity, meaning prurient material that offends community standards, provide no impediment to the increasing violence directed against women. Much of that violence, they argue, has been inspired by pornography, which their bill defines as "the graphic, sexually explicit subordination of women through pictures or words...
...pathos inherent in these pieces doesn't obscure their entertainment value. Everyone secretly takes prurient pleasure in others' minor despair; nothing else explains why millions of people read columns which answer only three individuals' letters each day. Unfortunately, because of either their tight schedules or their unawareness of the near-comic nature of such columns as "Ask Beth," college students can seldom keep up with all the faux-human-tragedy splashed across newsstands. 15 MINUTES henceforth offers, as a service to its readers, this brief summary and handy ratings of selected letters and their responses...