Word: raunch
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...glaucoma, schooled in classical, gospel and every form of popular music, he came to Atlantic Records in 1953, when the company?s boss, Ahmet Ertegun, bought Charles? Swingtime Records contract for $2,500. Ray brought with him a pioneering blend of gospel melodies, rhythm-and-blues raunch, a suavely swingin? piano groove ? la Nat Cole and the imposing sound of a big band behind him (though typically he worked with only six sidemen). Oh, and an epochal vocal style that would make him the 20th century?s dominant and longest-lived emissary of soul music to pop music...
...mine's a small, oft-told tale of inside baseball, office politics, double standards. . . but you know what?? My case also represents a troubling template for the future.?We know about Howard Stern, Bubba the Love Sponge and a Chicago DJ named "Mancow," raunch-shockmeisters all, awaiting FCC rulings. More insidious is a climate of fear so pervasive even public radio knitters are being axed.? While I won?t be sending KCRW any love letters soon, I understand their worries.? Now that the FCC has raised the fine per incident from $27,000 to $500,000, it?s one slip...
...British sex-com replayed often on BBC America; the British series is one of those exports that have developed an exaggerated reputation among a certain set mostly because it's hard to get here, like Marmite. In its BBC version, it's Friends with Sex and the City raunch and Seinfeld cynicism. NBC bought it and put it through the Homogenomatic 3000, hiring a perky cast, cutting the nastier edges. The sanitized-for-America's-protection version has still generated a lot of attention for, among other lines, an allusion to shaving a tender part of the anatomy...
...thank, in part, advertisers, who have complained that raunch has driven away some viewers and their wallets. The result is less a return to the paternalistic family hour than a recognition that the family viewing audience still exists, as one niche among many. And one series that TV's moneymen believe will cash in on the hunger for wholesome is the WB's Everwood (Mondays, 9 p.m. E.T.). New York City neurosurgeon Andrew Brown (Treat Williams) is obsessed with his career until his wife dies in a car crash on her way to their son's piano recital, which Brown...
Ever mindful of the needs of the community, Harvard’s thespians have been adding a little raunch and raciness to the theater scene in a city severely lacking in adult entertainment. In the past two weeks, student actors have served up a double-helping of sexcapades with the student-written buck and the Loeb Mainstage’s Titus Andronicus...