Word: ad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York Times recently ran a movie ad for The Libertine showing the back of a girl, bare except for panties. The Daily News ran the same ad for one edition - but then sloppily sketched in a bra strap. Apparently, even the notion that the girl might be bare-chested was too much for the News censor...
...ad mat for The Killing of Sister George features the face of a woman into whose leonine hairdo is woven a nude female figure. Some papers ran the ad intact; some performed surgery on the figure's silhouetted breast. In Chicago, the Tribune, Daily News and Sun-Times all added lines of camouflage to comb out the hanger...
...loin films multiply, newspapers must endlessly ask themselves: What is an acceptable movie ad? In the absence of legal storm-fencing (obscenity is largely determined by "contemporary community standards"), there are as many qualifications for acceptability as there are papers. In movie-ad censorship, every sheet is self-laundering...
...group of seniors, calling itself the Ad Hoc Committee on Commencement, is organizing a protest movement for commencement which could include a walkout from graduation exercises, withholding class gifts, and withholding contributions from the College...
...advance of a conglomerate." The Akron Beacon Journal likened Northwest to a "brash hussy trying to persuade our favorite uncle to elope." Forbes, a business biweekly, ran a long article that was so favorable to Goodrich that the company bought full-page newspaper space to reprint it as an ad...