Word: raunch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...themselves, most of the traditional barriers to porn are now down. The laws against pornography are uncertain, full of loopholes; harassed law-enforcement officials usually have neither the will, the funds nor the community backing to wage an effective war on pornography; juries will often not convict. Pornography, says Raunch King Al Goldstein, publisher of Screw magazine, is becoming "part of the mainstream of American life...
Finally, if it's hard-core raunch and roll you seek, you have no further to look than the Orpheum. On Friday, October 10, the triple billing of Foghat, Black Oak Arkansas and Montrose provides the ultimate in crotch rock and is the perfect complement to a bottle of Jack Daniels or Southern Comfort, depending on which part of the country you're from. Foghat sprang from the dissolution of one of the many Savoy Brown combos and added to their knowledge of blues a commercial touch in order to comply with the American audience's cry for boogie...
...less and less to the imagination. Playboy has expanded its Playmate of the Month spread from two or three pages to as many as nine. Penthouse routinely features male-female and female-female couples. Hefner's Oui (circ. 1.3 million), which set out three years ago to out-raunch Penthouse, is a virtual consumer guide to self-abuse, sadomasochism, bondage and other subjects that were once the province of hard-core porn...
...disdains the traditional glamorizing process of Hollywood-all the makeup and surgery that can camouflage every flaw. She has capitalized on her defects as well as her virtues. Her image is to look scruffy and a little disassembled. Black brings to all her roles a freewheeling combination of raunch and winsomeness. Sometimes she is kittenish. At other times she has an overripe quality that makes her look like the kind of woman who gets her name tattooed on sailors...
...good example is "Kitty's Back" on E Street, which combines elements of Broadway, blues, barroom horns and raunch in a stunning tour of every emotion you would feel if you knew somebody named Kitty and she was back. But the best example is "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)", Springsteen's showstopper...