Sentences with phrase «on obscenity»

There's an interesting case going on in Florida right now that centers on obscenity.

The exhibition immediately sparked controversy when politicians took offense to the show and the use of public funds provided by the National Endowment of the Arts to support it, leading to the indictment of the Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati and Director Dennis Barrie on obscenity charges.

Offense was taken and controversy sparked, leading to the indictment of the CAC on obscenity charges.

The former category included The People v. Bruce (parrhesia), 2011, an installation by Eric Garduno and Matthew Rana that looks at First Amendment rights in the context of Lenny Bruce's 1964 trial on obscenity charges.

Legal Gia Mannry asks some manga publishers and a retailer how the sentencing of Christopher Handley last month on obscenity charges will affect the way the conduct business.

In real life, Reems was jailed on obscenity charges and fought a lengthy legal battle with the help of none other than Alan Dershowitz while also fighting a persistent battle with hard drugs.

now they invited to attend the group's routine breakfast meeting, but was disinvited after he was indicted by a grand jury on obscenity charges.

after he was indicted on the obscenity charge, but considering they're all rethugliban, that ain't likely to happen as any investigation would lead right to RNC headquarters.

The words were Rabelaisian, yet never verging on the obscenity of Rabelais.

The 19th century also witnessed the growth of the Liberal movement, which campaigned for a separationist constitutional amendment but was undone in part by the unpopularity of it's equivocal position on obscenity.

Abortion clinics are firebombed; Planned Parenthood workers are murdered; an art gallery owner is arrested for exhibiting Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs; a rap group is arrested on obscenity charges; the civil rights — or «special privileges» — of gays and lesbians are the subject of controversial referenda; and issues of multiculturahsm, freedom of expression and «political...

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Depending on the individual retailer and specific countries in question, many of the companies could be in violation of several kinds of laws, obscenity among them.

Mr. Kalanick himself was caught on a video, which quickly went viral, in which he told one of Uber's drivers that «some people just don't want to take responsibility» for their own behavior, using an obscenity.

My mail was filled with obscenities and the hate callers were busy again on the phone.

One thinks of his reflections on the Second World War, on pacifism and belligerency, on laws regarding obscenity, and on the nature of criminal punishment.

With money for social programs scarce, my own priority is to put cash into more direct actions on sexual and domestic violence rather than into prosecuting obscenity.

These questions are deeply relevant to porn, and many judgments on them are embedded in the Supreme Court's decisions about obscenity.

Count me among those who regard our present constitutional law on pornography as an obscenity.

To appreciate this fact, one needs to inquire beyond its presence on social media, where its obnoxious use of insult, obscenity, and racism has earned it a reputation for moral idiocy.

I imagined myself as something of a St. Francis figure in all of this, but Dan said I just looked like a crazy lady running through the yard without a bra on, screaming obscenities and waving a broom around.

If you are interested in observing boozed - up American males crushing beer cans on their heads and then howling obscenities at the full moon, Friday and Saturday nights at the Oak Bottom Campground are likely your best bet.

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Or the bleacher bums in right field who shout out obscenities as they slosh beer on their chests in their drunken quest to pump their fists and berate the right fielder playing beneath them.

Since they're not a broadcast company, TNT isn't going to get fined for this, but they go to lengths to avoid accidental profanity on their NBA broadcasts — the game is broadcast on a slight delay so somebody can censor obscenities yelled by players picked up by the broadcast microphone.

Then, believing he was outside his own house, he accosted a woman he seemed to think was his wife, followed her up her front steps, beat on her front door, hurled obscenities at the house, and argued heatedly when the woman's husband greeted him at the door.

How is that worse than Mayfield running from the cops, getting in a mini twitter fued with a HS recruit going to texas and grabbing his hoohahs while shouting obscenities at Kansas or chubb stealing towels of opposing players and spitting on FSU's logo?

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Police in Orland Park arrested a man last week after he created a disturbance on a water slide and shouted obscenities at lifeguards at the municipal pool in Centennial Park.

But then one time, while riding a crowded city bus at 8 months pregnant, carrying a laptop on one shoulder and heavy books on the other, it took three stops and me shouting obscenities at the other passengers for someone to finally offer up their seat (out of fear).

The recordings that she made of her arguments with McLaughlin in early August show him heaping obscenity - laden criticism on her.

A job is the best form of welfare, Mr Johnson maintains, adding «we campaigned on that for donkey's years, from the foundation of the party through the Jarrow marches - the dignity of work and the obscenity of people being cast on the scrap heap.»

There is an adequate list on Wikipedia of free speech exceptions, that for convenience I will replicate here: Communicative impact restrictions (e.g. incitement, elicitation) False statements of fact (e.g. libel, slander, perjury) Obscenity (very tightly interpreted, and only regulated in public)...

That gaggle itself was nearly upended by a woman in the concourse of the Empire State Plaza screaming obscenities at Cuomo; she was arrested by State Police after the outburst went on for nearly a minute.

CIVIC CENTER — The NYPD detective caught on video screaming obscenities at an Uber driver has been removed from his elite post working alongside FBI agents in the Joint Terrorism Task Force and stripped of his gun and badge, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said Wednesday.

But the most explosive part of the fly - on - the - wall film about the inner workings of Parliament was yesterday dramatically edited out amid claims it showed a Tory minister shout an obscenity at Ed Miliband.

I do not panic or scream obscenities in traffic on the way to the airport, nor do I freak out and sweat through my shirt in long check - in / security lines.

But it became a true sensation on DVD, where a cultish following developed around the wild hijinks of the two namesake New Jersey pals (John Cho and Kal Penn) as they attempted to sate a case of the munchies, and in the process crossed paths with both a cheetah and the erstwhile Doogie Howser, M.D. — Neil Patrick Harris, playing an obscenity - spouting, drugged - up, hyper - masculinized version of himself.

Leigh, last prominently seen on the big screen spewing obscenities and blood in The Hateful Eight, could scarcely be more different here as the tough, watchful, oddly edgy group commander, while Thompson gets a few good verbal licks in.

In the face of such junk, the idea that Fox would proudly put himself on a punishing regime of severe diet and exercise to get prisoner - skinny - yet - crazy - muscled for the job of make - believe is vanity at best, obscenity at worst.

One of the most controversial standup comics since Lenny Bruce, Andrew «Dice» Clay has brought the vulgar comedy of hatred, obscenity, and misogyny to new lows or new highs, depending on one's age and feelings about such subjects.

Then there's the character Phillip Seymour Hoffman plays: a young craps player high on the dice, howling obscenities, singing snatches of nonsense songs and crowing to nobody.

It's a classic case of the film's trailer showing every joke that Standards and Practices will allow them to screen on network TV... and when the only remaining laugh - out - loud moment remaining in the film involves Dr. Phil loudly bellowing an obscenity, you know you're in trouble.

Something about Barker's prose makes the rawest obscenity seem privileged — the pleasure / pain principle of his cenobites in print, for example, is made the grail, whereas on the silver screen it dips dangerously towards kitsch and cult camp.

Via her spewing of obscenities at anyone around her and heaping mental, emotional and physical abuse on Tonya at home; she is the embodiment of embitterment and loathing, heaping her frustrations on her daughter under the guise of the most twisted sense of tough love to force Tonya to succeed as a skater.

As to whether the movie plays said respective shticks off each other well, that's another matter — as is the Lonely Island — alum filmmaker's inability to meld his weirdo absurdism with a corporate blockbuster's framework, and the lazy overreliance on creative obscenities in lieu of actual jokes.

Director Stoller and writers Andrew J. Cohen and Brendan O'Brien are graduates of the Judd Apatow school of studio humor, and so are well - versed in cooking up a comedy that adheres to a certain recipe: bookending the picture with big set - pieces, and then linking those set - pieces with a series of fast - paced episodes that rely chiefly on sight gags and as many obscenities as possible.

So many scenes depend on shouted obscenities and gross toilet humour that sharp wit and clever scripting seem to be ignored.

What follows suggests a role - reversal My Fair Lady, with the lowly Antipodean coaching the aristocrat through measures (rolling around on the ground, shouting streams of obscenities) that have more in common with radical psychotherapy than conventional speech pathology.

It's undeniably slight and verges on being pointless, but who needs Shakespeare when you have Sharlto Copley shouting obscenities in a South African twang whilst on fire?

Yes, Colin admits, he never does homework, Megan draws an obscenity on a classmate's window, Hannah can't bear to return to school after a boyfriend dumps her, and Jake gets drunk in Tijuana.