Word: prurient
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...scarlet detail of Harlow's careening career, including much that was never hinted at in the gossip columns and some that is clearly imaginary, is revealed for the prurient-minded in this "intimate biography" by Irving Shulman (The Amboy Dukes). Shulman includes facts that Harlow's doctors evidently did not have-some not even her hairdresser could know for sure. He asserts that Harlow had bouts of nymphomania. He says that Paul Bern was impotent and a sadist whose beatings caused Harlow kidney injuries -which ultimately killed her because Jean's mother, a Christian Scientist, refused...
...poems interesting in themselves, a couple of rousing drinking songs, some Rabelaisian belly laughs, and one or two tenderly erotic lyrics. Otherwise the reader who is not a hard-core enthusiast will find the collection disappointing. The scholarly apparatus smothers the poems. What is worse for the prurient reader, Burns's Scottish dialect, which he usually trimmed to understandable proportions in his published work, is here often incomprehensible-even the dirty words...
...heroes and Cindy Smith's way of making it to the top today. Sin on the Continent featuring a "Revealing Fold Out Cover," chronicles choice episodes in the adventures of Art Romer, a systems engineer from Furitvale, Idaho, who specializes in the bored wives of traveling businessmen. With 18 prurient passages and none of any other kind, it achieves an obscenity density of infinity...
Inside News, a flamboyant tabloid with a prurient fixture of horror ("He Tickled Her to Death") and sex, told its readers that "The Undergrads Are Oversexed" at Harvard and other Ivy schools. The current number of Whisper, a slick covered bi-monthly what promises "The Stories Behind the Headlines," Harries a lengthy account of "Harvard's Special Night course...
...books have been processed, approved for street sale by a Massachusetts judge who called it "prurient but not obscene," and are now available in dining balls for just...