Word: censor
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...Self, every one of which has had one or more top editors ousted and design face-lifts imposed. At the Random House book-publishing conglomerate, the longtime chief executive, a key division head and five other senior editors departed between November and March amid charges that Newhouse wanted to censor the politics of books and undervalued their social and cultural significance. He replied, "I do not like charity cases. I believe my operations should have the sense of security that comes from knowing their work leads to a profit...
...declared obscene. Comics get condemned by pressure groups. Serious movies garner X ratings. A Cardinal of the church blames a rock singer for teen suicides. In a four-letter world, what's a citizen to do? See it in perspective, and take it in stride. Another view: Entertainers should censor themselves before the state does it for them...
...revelations are subtle yet savory: Noonan hiding behind a pillar to avoid Nancy Reagan's disapproving glance at her outfit, or Bush's handlers trying to censor "read my lips," presumably because "lips are organs, ((and)) there is no history of presidential candidates making personal- organ references in acceptance speeches." Reagan remains almost entirely offstage in the first third of the book, as Noonan's initial meeting with the President (his hapless speechwriters had not spoken with him in a year) is abruptly canceled, and she has to settle for a glimpse of the presidential foot...
...general, and in the University in particular, we should carefully guard the distinction between that which we censure, or morally condemn, and that which we censor, or prohibit. Offensive speech deserves moral condemnation and vigorous rebuttal from the University community. Indeed, any liberal community has a responsiblity to condemn and rebut offensive speech. Standards of acceptability must exist, but they need not and should not be set by the University administration. What is important is not that purveyors of offensive speech be disciplined, but that they be loudly and publicly condemned by the community...
Alone in the theater, Father Adelfio (Leopoldo Trieste), the little Sicilian town's ex officio movie censor, rings a bell whenever anything on the screen strikes him as salacious. Up in the booth, Alfredo, the projectionist (Philippe Noiret, who is becoming Spencer Tracy to our age), slaps a piece of paper into the reel marking the spot the priest has X-rated. The walls of Alfredo's aerie are festooned with ribbons of film he has cut from movies before showing them to the public, for the good father sees in even the most chaste movie kiss an occasion...