Word: censor
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...Wall movement) and 1989 (the Tiananmen Square massacre), while Jiang Zemin failed in 1999 against the meditation group Falun Gong. Another litmus test is the Party's relationship with the media. Now that public opinion has swung in Hu's favor, he could consolidate his power by loosening the censor's steely grip. This could give him leverage to fight bureaucratic resistance to needed institutional reforms. The option is there, but Hu hasn't taken...
...February panel entitled “The State v. The Academy,” Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health Barry R. Bloom decried new restrictions on scientific research and criticized the decision of 32 peer-review journals to self-censor under the mounting pressure of national security concerns...
Chen Kaige does too. After many rigorous films, many fights with the censor board, he is entitled to pull a few plot strings, to pluck a few heartstrings--to make a film that wants to be liked. And isn't an audience that was nurtured on the doomsday screeds of art-house cinema entitled to vacation in the warmth of a superior film about a boy with almost too many people to love? --By Richard Corliss
DIED. RICHARD J. SINNOTT, 76, city censor; in his sleep at home in Boston. From 1955 until 1982 when his position was cut, Sinnott looked over movies, music, plays and strippers to decide if they should be "banned in Boston." He kept the Jackson Five from performing and forced Edward Albee to remove lines from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at a local theater...
...government studios are also under increasing competitive pressure to hold onto their audience. A government decree announced in January allows private film studios to form for the first time since 1975, and six companies have already applied for permits. The government will still censor the finished films (it also decides which foreign films are allowed to be screened) but won't require preapproved scripts as it does for state-produced films. Already, some of the country's most respected directors are considering the private sector, including Dang Nhat Minh and Vuong Duc, whose soon-to-be-released Lost Treasure explores...