Word: blackinger
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Andre Watts, pianist, on playing the Liszt Sonata: "It's a moment of stoppage of existence, like blacking out, like I am going around the bend. It is a moment of transcendental passion. A no man's land."
> Israel's small but vocal band of about 400 active feminists is making an issue of local censorship of Playgirl magazine. Steimatzky's Agency, a Tel Aviv-based book and magazine distributor, gave up censoring female nudes in Penthouse a year ago, but it still insists on blacking...
But were the two networks being a bit disingenuous? "As CBS and NBC know," said White House Press Secretary Ron Nessen, "the FCC exempts from so-called equal-time regulations on-the-spot coverage of bona fide news events." Although the President's speech certainly had political impact (see...
Pressing its case, the N.U.J. has ordered typesetters and printers to "black," or refuse to print, stories by non-N.U.J. journalists. As a result, blank spaces have whitened the pages of the provincials, and publishers have been quick to retaliate. The Kentish Times summarily sacked 60 employees for "blacking...
The city, then, was a must stop on the mid-19th century thinking man's tour. Charles Dickens, himself marked by his celebrated childhood stint in a blacking factory, put his observations of Manchester misery into Hard Times. Alexis de Tocqueville took a look and with a philosophical shrug...