Word: ribaldly
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...Those shocked by the ribald fruits of our efforts would do well to remember that the Romans did, after all, originate the toga party,” Kimel says...
...women of Athens withheld sex from their husbands until they stopped a ruinous war in Aristophanes’ play Lysistrata. Last night, the Athena Theater Company held a reading of the ribald anti-war play to protest possible American military action against Iraq...
...copping the top prize at the Venice Film Festival. It's basically a women-in-prison movie, set in Dublin in the '60s, when some girls were sent to convent reformatories, which, at least as shown here, were run by some very nasty nuns. They flog the girls, make ribald fun of their naked bodies, drive them to despair or madness. The young cast squeezes every righteous tear from the audience. But Magdalene would be a better film - at least, it might have been a good one - if it had shown the nuns, themselves the victims of a cruel, cloistered...
...Chicks--Maines, 27, and a pair of sisters, Emily Robison, 30, and Martie Maguire, 32 --are the most personable (and ribald) act in country music. As achievements go, this is like being the funniest guy in Belgium. Until recently, their breaches of country etiquette had the harmless air of cheerleaders caught smoking under the bleachers; they were rascals, but lovable rascals. After all, they moved tons of records, and their music was built around traditional country instruments (dobro, fiddle, mandolin) that they played themselves. But then the Chicks went from rascals to rebels: they sued their record company...
...particularly ribald April Fool’s prank was undertaken by philosophy major Derrick F. Leroy ’02 when he attributed the statement “A priori judgments have the twin characteristic of necessity and universality, neither of which can be found in conclusions from experience” to J. S. Mill during a dining hall discussion on the nature of a priori judgments with roommate Jimmy K. Falk ’02. Falk began his response by saying, “Well, sure, Mill would say that,” when Leroy, unable to keep...