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- <text id=90TT1751>
- <title>
- July 02, 1990: How Nasty Is Nasty?
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- July 02, 1990 Nelson Mandela:A Hero In America
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 13
- How Nasty Is Nasty?
- A textual analysis of 2 Live Crew
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>By Paul Gray/Reported by David E. Thigpen
- </p>
- <p> Just how often can even the fastest rapper describe oral sex
- or genitalia on a 79-minute album? More often than you would
- think possible, according to Focus on Family, an evangelical
- group that made a bluenosed and bug-eyed tabulation of the
- vulgarities in 2 Live Crew's controversial, hot-selling album
- As Nasty as They Wanna Be. It's dirty work, but somebody had
- to do it.
- </p>
- <table>
- <tblhdr><cell>Category<cell>Number of references<cell>Per min.
- <row><cell type=a>Use of the F word<cell type=i>226<cell type=n>2.8
- <row><cell>Use of word bitch<cell>163<cell>2.0
- <row><cell>Descriptions of oral sex<cell>87<cell>1.1
- <row><cell>Buttocks (mostly female)<cell>42<cell>0.5
- </table>
- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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