Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Putnam's Sons, had asked Judge Pashman to enjoin the county prosecutor from blocking sale of the book in New Jersey under a law that bars distribution of "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy or indecent" material. The usual parade of witnesses-psychiatrists as well as literary critics-argued that Fanny Hill contained not a single four-letter word. But Judge Pashman was not impressed...
...hour's appointment with a man," she says, "I may spend 45 or 50 minutes answering questions about things in the Times that he challenges or dislikes. And if I'm not careful in those 50 minutes that he's talking, then I lose my sale in the ten minutes I have left...
Claiming misappropriation and exploitation of its name and insignia, the suit protested that Notre Dame would suffer "irreparable and immeasurable injury" if Goldfarb were shown, but the school did not ask for damages. "The University of Notre Dame is not for sale for such uses," said the petition. What particularly annoyed Hesburgh was the way-out plot that depicts Notre Dame players "as undisciplined gluttons and drunks...
Second, it might be several years before construction could begin on the Bennett St. site. The MBTA is definitely committed to selling the Yards, but the speed of the sale will depend on how fast the MBTA can formulate its master plan for extending rapid transit to 78 outlying metropolitan communities...
From that preachy starting point, the film plunges into a peep show of questionable authenticity, poking its lenses through garden walls and desert shrubbery, suggesting much, proving little. The most chillingly persuasive sequences show the whipping of African natives who are for sale to Arab herdsmen, a raid on a caravan smuggling enslaved children from Chad to Saudi Arabia. Later a trader inspects a naked native woman as if she were horseflesh, coolly examining her teeth...