Violating a Florida prohibition against obscene, lewd performances. .
The deed restrictions also rule out "any obscene performances on the premises or any obscene or pornographic purposes".
Lenny Bruce, the comedian convicted in Criminal Court of giving obscene performances last April, was sentenced yesterday to four months in.
But his humor grew dark and edgy, filled with scatological words and ethnic slurs, and his career was marked by drug arrests and charges of obscene performances in Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles, which eventually came to naught.
The principal, James Irwin, 51, was arrested this morning outside his home in Yonkers, then charged with seven felony counts of promoting an obscene sexual performance by a child, said Jeanine F. Pirro, the Westchester district attorney.
He was charged with several offenses, including second-degree unlawful surveillance, promoting an obscene sexual performance by a child, endangering the welfare of a child, criminal trespassing and stalking, and he faces up to seven years in prison if convicted, the spokesman said.
The two felonies, attempted dissemination of indecent material to minors and possession of an obscene sexual performance of a child, are each punishable by up to four years in state prison, but the judge, Richard A. Molea, an acting Supreme Court justice, said he would impose a lighter sentence, 10 years' probation and a maximum of eight weekends in the county jail.
"This is about possessing obscene sexual performances by children, and that is against the law".
There was the sheer surprise that someone would shout out something so obscene during a performance; there was the fact that it's such a rude thing to say; and there was the safety of knowing that everything probably turned out OK because I, the person who was heckled, was on-stage telling the story, and I seemed pretty relaxed about it.
Thompson's push to label various musical performances obscene was not entirely limited to rap.
