Word: censorably
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...complaint, Joseph Campbell could not have published the invaluable “Skeleton Key to Finnegan’s Wake” five years after Joyce published his masterwork. The “act for the encouragement of learning” is being used to empower an author to censor an unapproved explication of her works...
...writer-director's dad, David, devised this year's festival poster: a lipsticked woman in some unknown peril, her eyes masked by a censor's black strip. Jennifer's new feature, her first since the 1993 Boxing Helena, has some of that eerie mystery; it's an authentic, systematically annoying weirdie about the investigation of a roadside homicide. Five were brutally killed by a couple of maniacs in leatherface masks. Now the three shaken survivors are being questioned in a police station by two outside agents (Bill Pullman and Julia Ormond) who are skeptical of the variations in the stories...
...watching the tournament were 21 or older, and the median age of viewers was 47. Furthermore, studies have shown little correlation between beer advertising and overall alcohol consumption—instead, such advertising typically changes the brand or type of alcohol people consume. It would be an overreaction to censor beer advertising because of its purported effect on such a small fraction of the audience. Though it is probable that reducing the amount of beer advertising could have some, albeit minimal, effect on underage drinking, as a professional sports organization, the NCAA does and should have other considerations, such...
Despite our overwhelming optimism for the program’s success and proliferation, we remain concerned about the possibility that contentious course material might be censored or altered—especially considering that the Chinese government regularly restricts access to certain sites it deems “subversive.” In this case, Chinese officials have promised not to censor the courses, but we are hesitant to trust them to hold to their word. Even recently, when China was bidding to host the Olympics, it indicated that it would improve the human rights situation within its borders...
...documentary “The Ultimate Weapon: The H-Bomb Dilemma” premiered on the History Channel in 2000. Galison’s research on the H-bomb, which was built clandestinely, sparked his general interest in governmental secrecy. “I began to wonder, when people censor documents and things they’ve said, what do they understand as being necessary to stop the movement of knowledge around the world?” he says.Galison and Moss met at Harvard, where they began teaching a class together, History of Science 152: “Filming Science...