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...right to make a living; neither, despite their normal intelligence, had been able to find any other job. By a 6-to-1 vote, the court found: "It may be that certain malformations, perhaps those relating to private areas of the body or some which may be repulsive or vulgar in nature, would so affect the morals and general welfare as to lend themselves to a prohibition." But this was not so, said the court, in the case of a dwarf and a "sealboy." Declaring the law unconstitutionally broad and imprecise, Justice Hal Dekle ruled that "one who is handicapped...
...Eucharist as triumphal sacrifice-seemed to symbolize Paul's growing conservatism as he approaches his 75th birthday, next Tuesday. As if to underline his cautionary mood, the Pope last week decried a potpourri of moral pollutants-including contraception, abortion, adultery and divorce-that have made modern man "vulgar, vicious and sad." "We are walking in mud," he declared. He also linked sexual permissiveness with drug addiction. "Behind the initiation to sensual pleasure, there loom narcotics...
...Vulgar Parlance. The gag illustrates Allen's reliance on a comic device that is as old as Aristophanes-the principle of inversion or, in more vulgar parlance, the old switcheroo. Woody's divorce joke, in fact, is merely an updated version of a line used by Oscar Wilde in The Importance of Being Earnest. "If I ever get married," drawls Algernon, "I'll certainly try to forget the fact. . . Divorces are made in Heaven." For a time, Allen used so many switches that friends in the trade referred to him as Allen Woody. He carried a sword...
...toughness," says Painter George Cohen, "or maybe we're just losers. But there is a reluctance to do something just because it's 'right.' " Indeed, as the show repeatedly proves, Chicagoans take more pleasure in doing things that are "wrong": scrambled, left-footed, irretrievably vulgar, offensive in subject matter...
...Nutt, this imagery of possession enters a horrific level of sour humor. Nutt is the more playful. His drawing appears to derive equally from Dick Tracy strips (the thin, grotesque, saber-edged line) and back-of-the-comic ads for hemorrhoid cures. The result is a mildly purgative vulgarity, harsh and sexy and comic all at once-a visual equivalent to the kind of sub-Burroughs imagery one gets in some Rolling Stones lyrics. Says Nutt: "I don't know what you mean by 'vulgar.' My women are dream women...