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Word: raunchiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Novelist Yuz Aleshkovsky, 54, views all forbidden topics as the domain of farce. The comic artist had to support himself in the Soviet Union writing children's books. Now he has returned to adult fiction with gusto. His raunchiest work, Nikolai Nikolayevich, is a Russian Portnoy's Complaint. In Aleshkovsky's book, as in Philip Roth's novel, the hero spends most of his time masturbating. The Russian, however, finds an ingenious way to turn his obsession into a cushy government job when a Soviet laboratory purchases his prodigious production of spermatozoa for the greater glory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Soviet Literature Goes West | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

harvard's half-time humor is more subtle. Stemmons said, adding. "we're the cleverest, not the raunchiest...

Author: By Peter Kolodziej, | Title: Harvard Band Members Defend Their Halftime Humor Shows | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

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