Word: raunch
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...crudeness mixed with sweetness that makes his comedy interesting. Apatow puts the credit for the boundary-pushing raunch of The 40 Year-Old Virgin on Rogen. "Seth kept saying, 'This is what my friends would like,'" Apatow says...
...most such films, which tend to focus on people standing around looking dour and anxious while moodily plotting to blow up the munitions train. Most significantly, perhaps, it is directed by Paul Verhoeven, who achieved both controversial success (Basic Instinct) and near-universal condemnation (Showgirls) for his hard-driving, raunch-laden American exercises in big-budget sex and violence...
...highways 24/7/365 in their big red bus. It does, however, require a very high tolerance for scatological humor to find this rather desperate comedy very funny, though to be completely honest, I found myself succumbing to RV, which is also a way of admitting that I?ve been feeling raunch-deprived at the movies for months...
...keeping with the tradition of unwholesomeness, Alexandra M. Helprin ’07, one of the play’s producers, explains that the Classical Club’s staging of “The Birds” will restore some of the Greek master’s trademark raunch: “Earlier translations of the play were censored. All of the dirty words were cut out and entire passages were missing. We’ve revived all of that...
...Regardless, “Female Chauvinist Pigs” is a provocative read that provides a much needed re-examination of the raunch culture that masquerades itself as female liberation...