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Word: smuts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...possible that I overlooked some of his other works. After all, the Reader's Guide doesn't index Penthouse, and the Harvard library system is notoriously weak on smut...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: The Editor Strikes Back | 12/13/1989 | See Source »

...white Chrysler rips out of a gravel driveway. From other directions, four cars race down a seedy strip of highway toward an abandoned gray house. A vice raid is under way on Houston's north side, and alongside the sergeant in the Chrysler's front seat, citizen Dan Hurlbut, smut buster, unsheathes a dark cigar and relishes the upcoming catch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vanquishing Vice | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

...setting up a safe harbor for indecent fare late at night, the FCC satisfied few interested parties. Paul McGeady, general counsel for Morality in Media, complained that the decision will open the floodgates to post- midnight smut: "There's no reason that raunch-radio persons won't become raunch-television persons." Broadcasters and civil libertarians, meanwhile, continue to object that the commission's definition of indecency is distressingly vague. Most network and local station officials insist that their standard on what is permissible will not change because of the ruling. Still, it could open the way for more explicit radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Midnight Blue: An FCC time limit for raunch | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...squirm while watching the play and feel that hot blush starting on your neck, but--like the rest of the audience--you'll probably laugh as heartily at the smut as you did in fourth grade. But underneath the laughter, Cloud 9 has a squalid streak and leaves you feeling as though you might want to wash your mouth, or more appropriately your ears, out with soap...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Get Off My Cloud | 7/1/1986 | See Source »

...informal sketches in which the story of a day in the life of Tuna is told. Sears and Williams, who also co-wrote the two-man show with director Ed Howard, conjure up the local color with their hilarious sketches: there's Bertha Bumiller, head of the local Smut-Snatching Society, in her green poly suit and orange bouffant wig; Petie Fiske, the woebegone rep from the Greater Tuna Humane Society and his homeless ducks; the toad-voiced chainsmoking Deedee Snavelly; the Rev. Spikes and his "remember the Alamo!" eulogies...

Author: By Hein Kim, | Title: Greater Hilarity Provides Raucous Relief | 10/18/1985 | See Source »

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