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...style, Bob and Jicky amused themselves by heaving buckets of water over the wall at the swarms of peepers and paparazzi, while the bodyguards handled the beach detail and the dogs swam out to bite the swimmers treading water offshore. About the only bardolators getting any compassion were the prurient yachtsmen, who pulled abreast of Bardot's bastion and got so engrossed in the view from the bridge that they drifted hard aground on the reef in front of the house. Every few days, Brigitte would wearily telephone Saint-Tropez Rescue Captain Jean Des-pas: "Another boat...
...acts of sexual intercourse semi-depicted on the screen were not necessarily obscene, and further insisted that the First Amendment applied to freedom of conduct and expression as well as speech. An "expert witness" duly testified that the performance, "applying contemporary standards of the average person," was not "of prurient interest." The judge agreed...
...Never Saw Any." Throughout the Deep South, hundreds of segregationists rushed to send for copies of the Congressional Record and all the prurient details. Chortled Dickinson: "One of my colleagues just came back from a newsstand, and he said, 'Man, they've got three bestsellers-Nugget, Playboy and the Congressional Record!' " Dickinson hardly seemed to care that many people, North and South, viewed such stories with great suspicion. Although congressional speeches are privileged, he said that he would repeat last week's charges in the Montgomery Coliseum, which would automatically lift his protection against a slander...
Justice John V. Spalding '20, writing of the four-man majority on the Court, that Fanny Hill meets all of the established court tests of : the "prurient interest," " offensiveness," and "social value...
While he conceded that "the fact that Memoirs arouses sexual thoughts and desires is not, in itself, sufficient to deprive it of its constitutional protection," Spalding wrote that "we have no doubt that the dominant theme appeals to the prurient interest...