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Word: smuts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reading your article on why television viewing is dropping, I couldn't help noticing that nothing is mentioned about taste. Contrary to the opinion of the networks, there are still a great many people who are simply not interested in smut, prostitution, sadistic violence and other forms of "adult television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Dec. 1, 1975 | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

Trying to be more Freudian than Sigmund, Legman plays many varia tions on his single theme: smut springs from unconscious fears and rages and is usually directed by males against females. His illustrations on the war be tween the sexes range from the earliest skirmishes to a cocktail-party confrontation: a beautiful woman propositions a man. "My place or yours?" he asks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Japes of Wrath | 11/10/1975 | See Source »

Despite periodic brouhahas over rulings on pornography, courts rarely jail anyone for peddling or promoting smut. The last defendant of note to do any time was Ralph Ginzburg, who served eight months for the prurient promotion of his magazine Eros. Now, however, three prominent pornicators-an actress, a publisher and a reformed smut merchant-face the threat of prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Jail for Pornographers? | 11/4/1974 | See Source »

Last year the court gave local jurisdictions the right to apply their own standards in determining what is illegally obscene. But this year it unanimously overturned one such local ruling while upholding another. Now the way is open for an endless string of smut cases to be appealed to the Supreme Court. In school desegregation disputes, the court has seemed ambivalent, particularly on the question of busing. After one decision that appeared to encourage busing, Burger issued an unusual "memorandum" suggesting that lower courts were misreading the ruling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The United States v. Richard M. Nixon, President, et al. | 7/22/1974 | See Source »

...most places, however, a chill has yet to be felt. Contrary to the expectations of civil libertarians, smut peddlers and bluestockings alike, last year's tough anti-obscenity rulings have had relatively little effect. The first few months after the Miller decision did see a rash of hasslings, raids, busts and prosecutions in Los Angeles, Tulsa, New Orleans, Tampa, Montgomery, New York, Bangor, Detroit, Chicago, Kankakee and elsewhere. Books were quietly shelved in many libraries and even burned (32 copies of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five) in Drake, N. Dak. But, by and large, even smutty books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Clearing the Calendar | 7/8/1974 | See Source »

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