Word: smuts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...disclaimer has a purpose: it attempts to absolve Cambridge's elected leaders from any responsibility for choosing the smut that's on display. By appointing a committee of so-called artists to make that decision independently--and then pointing the finger at that committee when its choices are criticized--our representatives in City Hall have sought to insulate themselves from controversy...
...designs are numerous and varied--there's something for everyone. Predictably, Yale smut surfaces in designs which depend on "sexual innuendos," explains Winkler. "Huck Farvard," reads one, while another offers the "Top 10 Reasons to go to Yale" (Reason number one: Yale always ends up on "top.") Others shirts are take-offs of popular TV characters like Beavis and Butthead and "Yalie" Kramer of "Seinfeld," who stomps a Crimson helmet...
Unlike Peninsula magazine's smut-filled condemnation of homosexuality two years ago, Mansfield's assault does not merit forceful rebuttal. What made the Peninsula issue so sinister was, first, that it shrouded its hateful bigotry in scientific, psychological, theological and philosophical arguments; and, second, that the issue's authors had the gall to insist they were motivated by the humanistic desire to help homosexuals see the error of their ways...
...communications technology to share their most intimate urges. Sex, as Gerard van der Leun writes in the new computer-hip magazine Wired, "is a heat-seeking missile that forever seeks out the newest medium for its transmission." He cites the spread of printed smut in post-Gutenberg Europe, pornographic pictures in the age of photolithography, X-rated tapes in the video stores and dial-a-porn services on the 900 telephone lines...
That is why we need federal politics to be more like local politics. What's that? I'm politically apathetic? I prefer smut over substance? Government isn't supposed to entertain? I've given up on '92 and basically Congress, the President, and the Supreme Court in general. If I can't have good government, I want fun government. I want entertaining budget crises (like my home town investing $25 million in a nuclear power plant that's still not operational and may never be), not endless excuses for deficits of hundreds of billions of dollars. I want administrative idiocy...