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Six days after receiving Starr's report, DeLay and other Republican leaders in Congress sent FBI Director Louis Freeh a letter protesting the dissemination of "prurient allegations" about the "personal lives" of members of Congress.
Among this year's bumper crop of teenage movies, it is the shallowest and most prurient" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ). The most positive take comes from the Washington Post 's Michael O'Sullivan, who writes that it's a "warped, hysterical and--believe it or not--sweet little gem of a movie."
A literary critic's biography of the 18 th -century satirical English painter wins praise for "bringing [her] subject and his milieu alive" (Bruce Cook, the Washington Post Book World ). The critics accept Uglow's revisionist claim that Hogarth's famous moralizing was accompanied by a prurient fixation on sex.
We must move ineluctably to a consideration of perfectly reputable words which, having acquired sexual connotations, cause adolescent—and often adult— hilarity, even when read by a person of only mildly prurient mind.
An "art for everyone" policy pitches opera to soccer fans and adds prurient plot lines to once-staid radio shows.