Word: utters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tedious entirety," Judge Moore and his colleagues agreed that it was protected by the First Amendment because it fell far short of the Supreme Court's standards for obscenity. The prevailing doctrine requires 1) appeal to prurient interest as a dominant theme, 2) patent offensiveness and 3) utter lack of redeeming social value. Though Moore dryly noted that Language is unlikely to be viewed "primarily by marriage counselors and their patients in a professional setting," he found no predominant prurience in a film that treats intercourse with all the passion of an ag-school lecture on animal husbandry...
...utter disbelief...
Though not yet ready for production, the rectifier has demonstrated its effectiveness in laboratory tests. In one instance, a father was able to read his children a bedtime story for the first time in his life. In another, a young man who could not utter a single intelligible word in a five-minute reading test donned the rectifier and read for five minutes with only 26 speech blocks...
When an Asian student attends an art class, for instance, he hears ostensibly sane Aussies discussing painting styles like mon (modern) and airpstrek (abstract). At lunchtime in the campus canteen, the visitor may hear a local student ask: "Gottiny semmitches?" "Air," says the counter girl. "Emeny jiwant?" Student: "Gimme utter martyr and an airman pickle." Thanks to the mare chick of communications, the girl duly produces a tomato and a ham and pickle sandwich...
...seen that dark beauty before? Peter Diamond, director of the Edinburgh International Festival and a man notorious among his friends for forgetting names, decided on the classic male approach. "Excuse me," he said, "but I think I know you. Haven't we met before?" A look of utter incredulity swept over the features that are engraved on the minds of millions of male moviegoers. "The name," came the reply, "is Elizabeth Taylor...