Word: risqu
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Died. Sir Compton Mackenzie, 89, prolific, puckish patriarch of British letters; in Edinburgh. Though successful movies (Sylvia Scarlett, Tight Little Island) were adapted from Mackenzie works, the novel Sinister Street, banned as too risqué when it first appeared in 1913, remained the most popular of his more than 100 books. He wrote controversial nonfiction as well: Greek Memories (1932) earned him a ?100 fine for revealing official documents from his tenure as a World War I intelligence agent, and The Windsor Tapestry (1938) created a sensation with its passionate defense of Edward VIII's abdication. Mackenzie held...
Hard to Upstage. Hocker's mind slips gradually back into nudism's past, and he glowingly recalls how he became a nudist in the sedate year of 1953. That was back when he was living in Long Beach and nudism was still considered risqué. In their search for an outdoor health spa, Hocker and his wife Ann stumbled on nudism. "We were the talk of Long Beach for a long time," recalls Ann (equally nude), her eyes gleaming with a certain mischievous pride. After four years Hocker quit his job as a cost analyst with the Ford...