Rather than profundity, they found profanity: not elegant Voltairean sallies against superstition but gross caricatures, lavatorial gags and adolescent smuttiness.
She'd been shunned by girls, fearful that the disgrace — the ludicrous, hilarious smuttiness of it all — would rub off on them.
"Mammas" — a set of short films, two to three minutes each, appearing Sunday on the Sundance Channel and sundancechannel.com — reflects the distinctive character of its creator, Isabella Rossellini: a blend of innocence, sophistication and sly smuttiness.
Elsewhere, punters are invited to have their most embarrassing secrets revealed, a sequence dependent for its entertainment value mainly on the smuttiness of the acts exposed.
Instead, The Spy Who Loved Me exemplifies Britain's conflicted internal battles: a nagging patriotism (that, ironically, pointed forward to the Thatcher years) alongside a smuttiness that might have been lifted from the sex comedies that, other than Bond itself, were pretty much keeping British cinema afloat.
It was a blanket condemnation of "the misbehaviour of the stage with respect to morality... the intolerable liberties the stage takes with the smuttiness of expression, swearing, profaneness, but above all in making their top characters libertines, and giving them success in their debauchery".
Adrienne Truscott: Asking for It until 18 January Truscott and her partner-in-crime Tanya Gagne strip off again for their acclaimed burlesque show, incorporating trapeze, glitter and saucy songs with unabashed smuttiness.
As for the idea that it's "feminist" to celebrate women's differences from men, I'd gently argue it's more feminist to listen to women when they say they feel degraded by this kind of tragic male smuttiness as opposed to dismissing them as humourless feminazis who don't understand how REAL ladies feel.
She read Ms. Szymbor ska's "An Opinion on the Question of Pornography," about the smuttiness of all thinking, and "In Praise of My Sister," an ode to everyone who doesn't write poetry.
Thanks to the rampant libidos of both men -- Walter's is a source of defensiveness, while Morris, the crowing nonhypocrite, flaunts his -- the play takes on a casual smuttiness.
