The Court in Butler was interpreting the provisions in the Criminal Code dealing
with obscenity, and specifically the phrase «undue exploitation.»
The problem
with any obscenity laws is figuring out what exactly is obscene.
For example, if we guarantee freedom of speech without qualification, will this invalidate some of our laws which deal
with obscenity, sedition, defamation, or film censorship?
The exhibition marked the 25th anniversary of Mapplethorpe's 1990 survey show The Perfect Moment, which famously resulted in the CAC being charged
with obscenity for displaying homoerotic content.
[23][24] In 1990, the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, and Dennis Barrie, were charged
with obscenity.
Aware that charges could arise, Sirkin filed an action of declaratory judgment in local court, arguing that under Ohio law, a legitimate museum such as the CAC could not be charged
with obscenity.
Combining luridly hand - drawn animations, paintings, mechanical sculptures and more, 2009 Guggenheim Video Art Fellow Federico Solmi continues to explore his controversial interests in sociopolitical affairs — last year his native Italy charged
him with obscenity, blasphemy and offense to religion — in his second solo exhibition «From Uterus to Grave With No Happy Ending,» which opens tomorrow at NYC's LMAK gallery.
(Two such photos exhibited at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati 25 years ago were part of a trial believed to be the first in which a museum was charged
with obscenity.)
In 1990, at the height of the so - called culture wars, Hamilton County prosecutors charged the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati and its then director Dennis Barrie
with obscenity for showing the photos.
Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center, which showed Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs, and its director were even charged
with obscenity.
(2005) his discourse, with English subtitles, rambles from a no - holds - barred account (to his analyst) of a sexual encounter with a male stranger in a shop, to his fear of strong women, to his rages at his domineering mother, to whom he refers
with an obscenity.
In 1957, the gallery was temporarily closed after LAPD officers arrested and charged Wallace Berman
with obscenity over work in his exhibition.
In 1990, Dennis Barrie, the then director of the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, was charged
with obscenity by Hamilton County for mounting an exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe photographs.
She was arrested at the performance, charged
with obscenity, and then was given a suspended prison sentence.
The opening reception was held at the Corcoran Gallery, which had caved to political pressure by canceling the late photographer's retrospective, and the convocation was given by Dennis Barrie, the Contemporary Arts Center director who had been charged
with obscenity for not canceling Mapplethorpe's show in Cincinnati.
But when that subpoena was delivered to Deputy Chief Shawn Broton, it was greeted
with an obscenity, the district attorney said.
the DA's subpoena for records for presentation to a grand jury today was «met
with an obscenity.»
The butterfly grew stronger
with every obscenity.
In a free speech decision having to do
with obscenity, Justice Harlan opined in 1971, «The Constitution leaves matters of taste and style so largely to the individual.»
One wonders: do the authors of the Platform themselves agree about whether the «dignity of all persons» is offended by abortion, whether racial quotas honor or violate the principle that «discrimination is abhorrent,» or whether the virtue of «tolerance» requires putting up
with obscenity in the music of rock and rap?
Do you have nothing better to do than spam threads
with obscenity, just because you can get away with it?
Some of those Twitter feeds were subsequently filled
with obscenities and links to pornography.
My mail was filled
with obscenities and the hate callers were busy again on the phone.
Adding to the bizarre incident was a woman who, while Cuomo started to speak to the gathered Capitol press corps, began berating
him with obscenities.
Others, he said, have been filled
with obscenities.
«Zwicky began referring to Baade as «the Nazi»... He regarded most of the other Palomar astronomers as fools, and Walter Baade as a cretin... He would swear torrentially at night assistants, using scientific terms laced
with obscenities... He referred to Baade and the others as spherical bastards — «They are spherical,» he said, «because they are bastards every way I look at them.»
Not that I Give It A Year is by any measure prudish; it's filled
with obscenities and bawdy humor and even quick snatches of male frontal nudity.
My first hour or so trying to get the hang of leaping between red and yellow stripped platforms was filled
with obscenities (as seen through my recent two - hour live stream embedded below).
Similarly, Figueredo's large - scale paintings draw from his printmaking technique, composing colorful planes layered on top of one another, that merge the powdered wigs of our forefathers
with the obscenities of our contemporary amusements.
Your professional resume writers can create a fantastic resume, you might look fantastic and interview well, but if your social media is filled
with obscenities, controversial statements or constant complaints about work, this isn't exactly inspiring for a potential boss.
The following is the log entry regarding this warning: Medical assistant was changed by 208.125.210.187 (u)(t) making a minor change
with obscenities on 2009-09-28T23:13:54 +00:00.
Not exact matches
The announcer quiets the crowd
with a barrage of
obscenities before introducing the founders, Sarah Jones and Mackswell Sherman.
The conversation quickly becomes heated,
with Mr. Kalanick using
obscenities and generally being dismissive of Mr. Kamel's complaints.
I have one person at work who can not speak one sentence without lacing it
with at least two
obscenities.
Or Jon Stewart, who concludes his regular political rants
with crude
obscenity?
How did the sender know to send a second threat that masked the
obscenity with percentage marks unless one of the recipients was also the sender and noticed that he hadn't received the message, and then resent it in a format that wouldn't be blocked by the spam filter?
Press those who make that argument, however, and we discover that they do have definite notions of what is obscene, beginning
with the people who protest
obscenity.
Up to the 1950s the U.S. Supreme Court applied the Hicklin test, which defined
obscenity as that material
with a «tendency... to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall.»
This broader form of censorship may be legal, as
with laws against
obscenity.
As he left the party
with his friend Daryl Collins, the occupants of a passing car yelled
obscenities.
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.
The ghost of Abbot Joachim was walking again, and we were restless for a new Pentecost in the fullest sense, impatient
with the mixed and imperfect character of the Son's dispensation; and
with these things came the inevitable antinomian tendency, leading good men to propose
obscenities in the name of love.
Lets be honest
with ourselves; ALL Prem players are obscenely overpaid but we can be expected to stomach this
obscenity in life (esp when compared to people who do REAL jobs, nurses, bus drivers, agricultural workers etc, etc) ONLY when those fortunate players bust a gut, every game, for the club who employs them.
It is an
obscenity to compare Monreal
with him.
In a split second, Cantona turned and lunged
with both feet at a ground - level fan who had apparently had been shouting
obscenities at him from the front row of the stands.
Open Secret In 1999 Southern Hills, the site of next week's U.S. Open, had swastikas and
obscenities burned into its greens
with acid.
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?
Fouled
with 21 seconds left and the score 70 - 69, Burroughs calmly toed the line, winked at his dad in the stands and swished the two free throws that, minutes later, had students in Syracuse screaming
obscenities out of their dorm - room windows.
For those
with heart conditions, bruised egos, low self - esteem, and / or are currently in a workplace which frowns upon screaming
obscenities at the computer monitor followed by smashing your keyboard across your cubicle you may want to read this another time.
• A 19 - year - old Orland Park male who received an oral warning for dancing atop a vehicle and playing loud music outside his home was charged
with violating a local disorderly conduct ordinance for yelling
obscenities and threats May 26 after he thought police had left.