Word: raunch
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...Hound Dog, released by Willie Mae ("Big Mama") Thornton in 1953, pop music had its own kind of enforced segregation. The sudden, seismic synthesis of mainstream pop and down-home rhythm and blues was performed by Elvis Presley, who took R&B, fused it with a little country raunch and came up with rock 'n' roll. Even the generic name was a perfect synthesis: black slang, applied to the raucous music and then popularized by a disc jockey...
...looked over at the fortress walls on one side of the street and then glanced into the superette, where a crowd of Matherites was disucssing the relative virtues of that month's Raunch cover girl. The C.B. crackled and everybody laughed and the owner leaned over to point out the centerfold and Lou shivered like a man who just lost a lot of money betting on a very slow hogse with a very fast bokkie...
What of the other 50? "We have a Negro guitar player named Ray White with a red jumpsuit, and his dashing accomplice Bianca--they add an element of funk--and then there's me, for that Mediterranean raunch effect," he says...
...round up all the smut-nuts, peep-creeps, massage-kneaders, and their exploiters and launch the raunch on an ark down our sewers...
...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...