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...longer obscene, with four-letter words so common that they now seem part of the verbal furniture. Is he vulgar? Of course, but not in his own eyes. "Vulgar," he says, "is like Richard Nixon being allowed in Red China. That's very vulgar. That's vile. Vulgar, onstage, is colorful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A New Black Superstar | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

...button saying GAY NEWS FIGHTS ON in the lapel of his conservative three-piece gray suit. The offense: publishing a poem by James Kirkup, in which a Roman centurion describes his sexual relations with the body of the crucified Christ. Prosecutor John J. Smyth called the verses "so vile that it would be hard for even the most perverted imagination to conjure up anything worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: On Trial for Blasphemy | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

...father of three children, Seeger asked why young children should be exposed to vile pornography which glares at them in open view on the newsstands, or why Americans should be a "captive audience" to unavoidable billboards...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: 'Tis a Gift To Be Simple, "Tis a Gift To Be Free | 3/4/1977 | See Source »

...strong laxative. But a couple of millenia later, upstart science started to push treatment past the limits prescribed by the Father of Medicine. The discovery of germs in the late 1800s finally toppled most of Hippocrates' cautions. Lab men found drugs that could enter the body and destroy the vile little creatures where they did their dirty work. Disease was something to be attacked without mercy...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: Physician, Broaden Thyself | 2/10/1977 | See Source »

...been hospitalized ever since she joined him in an unsuccessful suicide pact last November. On sleepless nights in prison, Gilmore said, he has been haunted by ghosts. "They're slippery, sneaky, and get tangled in your hair like bats . . . demons with dirty, furry bodies whispering vile things . . . creeping, crawling, red-eyed soul less beasts. They bite and claw, scratch and screech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Death Watch in Salt Lake City | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

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