NEWS
By Wiley A. Hall 3rd | September 11, 1990
Don Quixote tilted at windmills.The Rev. William Wingo has taken on profanity."You can't be serious!" I exclaimed, for we seem to live in a hopelessly profane world."
NEWS
By WILEY A. HALL | May 25, 1993
"Well, I finally got to see that new movie, 'Posse'," said my friend, Will B. Humble, the other day.Humble and I were cooling out after work at our favorite tavern, the Old Briarpatch. It was Happy Hour, don't you know, and the peanuts were free."Oh yeah," I said, "the new Mario Van Peebles flick about black cowboys. What'd you think?""It was OK, I guess," said Humble thoughtfully. "I just wish it was the kind of movie I could take my nephews to see.""Too violent?""Nah, no more than any other western."
FEATURES
By Jeff Rowe and Jeff Rowe,Orange County Register | March 13, 1995
Casual profanity has come to the office and from an unlikely source -- women.Few figured it would evolve this way, especially as women began to surge into the work force in the 1970s. Men would have to clean up their raunchy language, the conventional wisdom dictated, in deference to the women.It hasn't worked that way.Instead, women in the workplace can blister the paint with the gusto of a stevedore in a tavern. It's a transition in the American workplace that suggests that the social and cultural norms of the workplace are still largely set by men despite the legions of women who have entered the work force in the past three decades.
NEWS
By Mark Guidera | April 26, 1992
To many, the excision of all the blue words in a play to be performed by 34 middle-schoolers may seem hardly a crack in the cornerstone of freedom of expression.But to my mind -- and I'll wager to a whole lot of teachers in this county -- Harford school Superintendent Ray R. Keech's decision last month to wrench the profanity from the play "Jabberwock" is disturbing.The deletions came after a very small band of parents at North Harford Middle complained about profanity and other elements of the play, which students had chosen to perform.
NEWS
By The Kansas City Star | February 4, 1993
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The football stadium is packed. The home team heads toward a score and then a referee's bad call stops the momentum. Some fans respond in unison with an obscenity.A mother drags her two young children through a grocery store. One keeps lagging behind, picking items from shelves. Finally, the mother yells at the child. Her coarse vocabulary echoes down the aisle.There's a widespread feeling in America that our language is, to put it politely, going to heck.Nowadays, profanity and vulgarity slip out during normal discourse.
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By Michael K. Burns and Michael K. Burns,Staff writer | April 19, 1992
The authors of the play "Jabberwock" have agreed to allow North Harford Middle School eighth-graders to perform an edited version withoutany profanity.The production, twice threatened with cancellationover curse words in the script, will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the school auditorium. Proceeds from the play will go to the United Way. Tickets are $2The dilemma was resolved last week when the playwrights said their script could be purged of expletives for the performance by the students.