Word: censorable
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...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...
...says, "part flamenco, part Flatt & Scruggs, part classical." It is written for six-and twelve-string guitars and a symphony orchestra of 37 pieces, but the result manages to preserve a certain purity. His Reading Matter is even plainer. Take, for example, his ode to the network censor, who, Williams writes...
...most ominous potential of any centralized regulation, of course, lies in its possible abuse. Overzealous but underimaginative censors might not stop at snipping out broads and brawls but might press on to new frontiers of blandness. Legitimate controversy or merely inconvenient opinion aired on television would also fall under the censor's watchful eye. "What is proposed," says Leonard Freeman, producer of CBS's Hawaii Five-O, "is Orwellian in its prospect. We are now overly cautious; the result is a vacuum years behind the audience...
Adlow says he does not like to label himself a censor, but rather a believer in the value of privacy. "No Supreme Court has ever said censorship is forbidden in the United States," he said. "They have always attempted to set forth certain standards of decency, while investigating the book or picture in terms of its redeeming social value," he added...
Those indefatigable human detergents, the censor and the prude, have utterly failed to launder, much less expunge, man's lowest literary form: the dirty joke. What accounts for its lusty and unabashed survival? Freud suggested that the smutty story verbalizes male aggressive instincts against the highly disturbing opposite sex. Somewhat embellished, this theory lies at the heart of Gershon Legman's Rationale of the Dirty Joke (Grove Press; $15), which beyond all doubt qualifies as the most bizarre book of research in recent years. Legman's study is an 811-page anthology of dirty jokes, complete with...