Word: censorable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gustavo Rojo, as Lieut. Cable, was politely proper in his love scene with Liat (Maria Rey). And the lonely sailors were so surprisingly paired off with girls that the stage was cluttered with shapely dancers not quite sure of what they were there for. They were there because the censor ruled that a disproportionate number of men to women on stage smacked of homosexualism...
...Hugh M. Flick, chief New York State movie censor, declared that for a movie censor, sex is fairly easy to handle (he often cuts it out), but brutality is much harder to manage: "punishment [of a brutal villain] doesn't disconnect your unconscious identification with a star you know and like...
...broader implication arising from the Post Office restrictions are even more alarming. The fact that scores of Government translators daily censor or confiscate Russian publications does in itself sufficiently resemble Soviet thought-control practices. But worse that that, under the existing legislation there is apparently nothing to prevent the Post Office, with the Attorney General's permission, from widening the censorship list to include socialist literature or just unpatriotic propaganda originating abroad. Universities also are exposed to the whims of Washington bureaucrats, because at the present time it is only through the permission of the Post Office that these institutions...
...working journalist is usually innately shy about being interviewed himself. When we turn the tables on him, some curious things are likely to happen. The reporter being interviewed may get edgy and commit the sin he hates most; ask to read, i.e., censor, the finished copy. Or he may insist on putting the best part of what he says "off the record." Or, a brilliant questioner himself, he may be struck dumb at being interviewed. By and large, however, most newsmen have the good grace to laugh at such inhibitions when our reporters point out the irony...
LACMA also rides herd on the program itself, ever since the first show brought in a flood of complaints that a resuscitation method used on a newborn baby was obsolete. LACMA acts both as a censor and a prod to Medic. A show dealing with homosexuality was "tabled" by the doctors, but they have lifted some TV taboos, e.g., in a film about an unwed mother, NBC balked when the doctor-as he normally would-asked the girl when her last period had occurred. LACMA insisted that the word stay...