Word: vulgarisms
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Similar engagements were run at other battlefields, and in nearly every instance the "soldiers" were accompanied by modern-day camp followers-hucksters hawking vulgar souvenirs like beach towels imprinted with the Confederate flag, ashtrays embossed with the faces of Grant and Lee, cigarette lighters emblazoned with the words FORGET, HELL! and which played Dixie when opened...
...censorship. We must help create an attitude of self-censorship and responsibility, otherwise we're dead ducks." And Baptist Minister Howard Moody of the Judson Memorial Church in New York's Greenwich Village feels that a new Christian definition of obscenity should not concentrate on sex or vulgar language alone, but on anything, particularly violence, whose purpose is "the debasement and depreciation of human beings...
...priest lewdly opposing contraception so offended the nation's Catholics that the BBC was forced to apologize publicly. Fortnight ago, Panelist Bernard Levin called Tory Leader Sir Alec Douglas-Home "a cretin." When Guest Panelist and onetime Tory Cabinet Minister Iain Macleod rebuked him for such "crude, vulgar words of abuse," a grinning Levin agreed to change "cretin" to "imbecile...
...Saturday evening they had assembled in the center of the city. Most started to drink in local bars, becoming obnoxious and vulgar. They stood in the middle of the street, where they stopped vehicles, opened car doors and attempted to pet and paw female passengers in the automobiles. The women who accompanied the group lay in the middle of the street, where they went through suggestive motions. At about this time, some half-dozen motorcyclists invaded a bar and brutally beat an old man and attempted to abduct the barmaid. Shortly thereafter some dozen motorcyclists went to the local hospital...
Five members of a Jewish country club sit in the clubhouse nursery querulously debating how to get rid of 18 unseen prostitutes who have infiltrated the tennis courts. It becomes apparent that the members are either vulgar or epicene, and need a supercilious, tuxedo-skinned British barman to insult and be insulted by. The two sons present would like the two fathers present to drop dead. When the girls express their contempt by simultaneously breaking wind and then pelt the place with tennis balls, plaster spills, roof beams totter, and it becomes clear that Kopit is one of the cosmic...