Word: censorably
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...Government officials to ask the media to keep secrets voluntarily. The press honored such requests before the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961 and on various occasions during the Viet Nam War. However, the Government's legal power to block publication if the press refuses to censor itself remains uncertain. In the celebrated Pentagon Papers case in 1971, the Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. could bar disclosures only if they caused "irreparable damage...
...difficult role of Corday's lover Duperet, Ben Evett is hilariously lewd, while Laurie Gallueto is equally effective in the role of Simonne Evrard, the head of Charenton, who tries to neal her patients through participation in art. At the same time, she is the censor of the play, who interrupts subversive talk and menacingly reminds the crazies that "everything is being done to alleviate sufferings." Pale and stone-faced, she makes the audience's blood run cold...
...course, Jackson still heads straight for the spotlight when it is available. Against the opinion of some advisers, he was host of NBC's Saturday Night Live. He brought along his own censor, Harvard Psychiatry Professor Alvin Poussaint, to vet the scripts; Jackson excised at least one joke from a funny monologue about people who are unwelcome to join his Rainbow Coalition. (The rejected line: that "really, really, really poor people" were not included...
Suddenly -- you could see it in his face -- inspiration struck. He dashed out a story on a typewriter, slipped it through the censor in a minute and then yelled for a telephone. "Get me London!" and got London in a minute...
Suddenly, inspiration struck him. He whipped his story past the censor and called London: "Plans to Send Six Soviet Cosmonauts into Outer Space Mysteriously Scrubbed...