Word: vulgarize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both novelties are deplorable, and Live and Let Die is the most vulgar addition to a series that has long since outlived its brief historical moment - if not, alas, its profitability...
...adults who might be offended? When a Los Angeles plain-clothes policeman walked into a store and asked about "sexy books," the store's proprietor, Murray Kaplan, answered: "All our books are sexy." Kaplan was duly arrested and convicted for selling the policeman a book that "in vulgar, gutter language ... instructed on an act of oral copulation." Kaplan and the defendants in two similar cases (another bookstore, a movie theater proclaiming ADULTS ONLY) argue that if an adult is permitted to have pornography in private, they should be able to sell it as long as they provide clear warnings...
Under Georgia law, it is illegal to use "obscene and vulgar or profane language in the presence of a female or of a male under the age of 14." No mere remnant of the past, the law was enacted in 1968; now, by a 6-1 vote, the Georgia Supreme Court has upheld its constitutionality. The case at issue: an eleven-year-old girl went up to a car that had stopped in her neighborhood. "Have you ever been laid?" the driver asked. She immediately walked across the street, memorized the license, went home and wrote the number down. Traced...
...interhouse" meals a nonsensical comment about ants was attributed to me. Members of The Crimson have never hesitated in the past to phone me for information or opinion. I wish that the writer of your editorial had had the courtesy to do so before crediting me falsely with so vulgar and irrelevant a statement...
...sure, there are those who are pleased for reasons of petty partisanship or from a vulgar enjoyment of that dependable old theme, The Mighty Brought Low. But there are deeper reasons for taking satisfaction in the whole squalid affair...