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and Jews, p.c. gays and uptight straights will all find plenty to offend
them. (Newsweek)
Despite every Rushdie-like blasphemy he can think of ... what he
achieves is a serious argument about the birth and meaning of Christianity.
(Chicago Tribune)
I will not read the book, and I will not spend money on it. (Dr. Michael
Harty, Bishop of Killaloe)
New York Times B3 (September 23, 1992), B2 (September 24, 1992), B2
(October 2, 1992).
At the end of a rave review of "Glengarry Glen Ross," Vincent Canby
observed that the movie "which has been rated R ... is stuffed with
language that is vile, obscene and gratuitously vulgar, which is its
method." New York Times B1 (September 30, 1992).
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Guardian 33 (November 14, 1991).
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Osborne (1991), reviewed in Guardian 27 (October 31, 1991).
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Harvey (1984).
A Jersey City group (whose name the New York Times would not print
because it contained an obscenity) made a statue of Jesse Helms filled
with fertilizer (bullshit), gave it a mock trial for censorship, and smashed it
on the Capitol steps during an anti-censorship rally. They disrupted rushhour
traffic by chaining a 46-foot banner of headless suits across Wall
Street to protest "the mindless omnipotence of corporate America." They
hung sculptural corpses named for art movements to street lights near
SoHo galleries to demonstrate that "art is dead." They changed smiles
into grimaces and faces into skulls on 42 billboards before two members
were arrested. The Gannett Corporation, which owned the billboards,
dropped the charges and gave the group its own to produce a message for
the Women's Health Action Mobilization on AIDS. Like Guerrilla Girls
(feminist artists who wear gorilla costumes to gallery openings to protest
male hegemony), they wear black clown outfits to accuse galleries of
playing it safe. New York Times s.1 p.34 (April 26, 1992).
Robbie Conal's posters display Chief Justice William Rehnquist over
the caption "Gag Me With a Coat Hanger" and the six male justices likely
to vote against abortion over the caption "Freedom of Choice" in which
"of" has been crossed out and replaced by "from." Guerrilla Matrons
mysteriously plaster them across Los Angeles, following a two-page guide
to "Guerrilla Etiquette and Postering Technique." Los Angeles Times E1
(June 9, 1992).
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Los Angeles Times A10 (April 23, 1992). During the Sixties we shouted:
"Hey, Hey, LBJ/How many kids did you kill today?" When Clarence
Thomas wrote an opinion shortly after his confirmation holding that the
repeated beating of a federal prisoner did not constitute cruel and unusual
punishment, the political cartoonist Conrad pictured him (and Justice
Scalia) beating a bound, gagged, and manacled black prisoner with their
gavels. Los Angeles Times B7 (March 3, 1992).
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Commenting on the proscription of swearing in British family and
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