Word: risqué
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...comment indicates, Berry was wont to zing. His slide shows were raucous, ribald, sometimes even risqu?, and seldom were they kindhearted. If they were hilarious to some, they weren?t to all. Young Roger Clemens, a rook, seemed bewildered by the BLOHARDS when he was a guest at the first club lunch I attended. And, memorably, Butch Hobson, when he was manager, threatened to take us on en masse during his remarks after Berry had tweaked Hobson?s third-base coach, the immortal Zimmer, in commentary during the slide show. Hobson really was fuming. It was a tense moment...
...hopeful about Pakistan's future. Progress is taking place throughout society. Colleges and universities are opening at a record rate; and tens of thousands of primary school teachers are being hired. More than a dozen new private television channels and radio stations are beaming lively political debate, frequently risqu? lifestyle and fashion programs, and an exploding local music scene into homes across the country. Foreign companies are investing hundreds of millions of dollars to pursue the opportunities of a market that in population terms is the world's sixth largest...
...continued presence may reassure some Singaporeans that the changes he initiated won't be rolled back. In fact, says Cherian George, author of the book Singapore: The Air-Conditioned Nation, those who are worried that they could lose relatively new freedoms such as the right to chew gum, watch risqu? movies or dance on bar tops are missing the point. Although Goh did make some concessions allowing Singaporeans greater freedom in their private and public lives, says George, the space for political discourse?for example, the influence of opposition parliamentarians?has if anything dwindled. "Individual Singaporeans are far more vocal...
Even by the racy standards of South Korea's red-hot movie industry, one of the many bedroom scenes in Too Young to Die was a tad risqu?. A woman fondles a man and bends over him, initiating oral sex. After banning the movie, Korea's censors relented last month on the condition director Park Jin Pyo obscure the scene by digitally turning down the lights. It wasn't the act that scandalized Koreans, it was the actors. The stars of the movie are in their 70s, and in conservative Korea, nobody was ready to witness granny and grandpa having...
...night at Girishbhai's camp. Most of the people?mainly slum dwellers?seem in good spirits. Women gossip and giggle as they help the volunteers cook up a fresh batch of khichdi, a nutritious mixture of rice and lentils. The men are kept in splits by a barber's risqu? jokes. "Our homes were not worth much, so it will be easy to rebuild them," says 60-year-old Haji Aftab. "We feel sorry for the rich and the middle-class folks, who lost expensive houses." The resident chatterbox Malati, a maid in her early twenties, says she is looking...