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Unlike the literary world, where provocative books such as Ulysses or Lady Chatterley's Lover led to legal battles over obscenity issues, in the movies, no one tried to place fuck onto film until the country was ready for it.
In order to eliminate selection bias we tried to set objective criteria, both for patients and controls.
Puffy features on Beatty in various (non-Murdoch) magazines and newspapers have suggested that Fox, which was contractually obligated to make and release Bulworth , has tried to bury the picture, thus ensuring its status as a cause célèbre among pundits who'd love to stick it to Rupert, even if that means enriching his company.
With the possible exception of the French, who tried changing even the names of the months to memorialize their revolution, the Russians make more of their language than any other people about whose language I know anything.
For novelty value, I also tried Cottonelle Moist Wipes, which offer "a fresher clean than with bathroom tissue alone."