Word: chatterley
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
DIED. CHARLES REMBAR, 85, lawyer, writer; in the Bronx, N.Y. Rembar defended the publishers of Lady Chatterley's Lover, Tropic of Cancer and other controversial works against obscenity laws, most famously--and successfully--in the landmark Fanny Hill Supreme Court case of 1965. He received a George Polk Memorial Award in journalism for his book The End of Obscenity in 1969, the same year his cousin Norman Mailer also won a prize...
...inevitably dry books on reading lists, Allyn makes liberal use of favorite four letter words, includes personal accounts of different people having sex in different positions, and speaks of the evolution of masturbation. Allyn is verbally pornographic at times; in his frequent allusions to D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, one gets the sense that Allyn wishes us to see him as the next Laurence, crusader in literature of the sexually explicit. He includes such passages as: "There were people fucking and thrashing all over. They'd sort of roll over on you, and sometimes you found yourself spread...
...movie sees this emotional colorizing as a good thing. Waking from the prolonged childhood of the '50s (when Ike was the omnipotent dad), America attended to the culture bubbling under its consciousness--to rhythm and blues, to Lenny Bruce and Redd Foxx, to Lolita and Lady Chatterley's Lover--and took a heroic leap into the enthralling unknown, the flourishing of art, the liberation of race and gender. Yet it can also be argued that the opening of those emotional pores brought a more debased culture: drug epidemics, teen pregnancy, splatter movies, penis-size jokes on every sitcom, Marilyn Manson...
...Lady Chatterley's Lover, D. H.Lawrence
...legislation to regulate the Net. New York enacted a law last year that resembles the CDA. In Virginia it's now illegal for state employees--including state-college professors--to access "sexually explicit" materials online. That law might prevent English professors from running an online discussion of Lady Chatterley's Lover. In Georgia it's a crime for people to communicate anonymously over the Net, which could come as a surprise to 8 million America Online users, most of whom use pseudonyms...