Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recent ugly and intolerable incident. There seem to be people here who have more in common with the illustrious Jesse Helms than they'd ever imagine. They evidently believe their views are absolutely correct and supremely higher than everyone else's, to the point of falling in with the censorship agenda of the senator and his neo-Nazi friends...
According to Roemer, that bill was "arbitrary and clearly unconstitutional." He said he vetoed it to "keep government out of the business of censorship...
Today you hear it said that we have no censorship. That's nonsense. That's talk for children. We have the most real -- and I might even say the most cruel -- censorship. We should not turn criticism into censorship, because critics and ideologues will turn into police bullies...
...First Lady enjoys a good joke, but she might blush at the contents of a cartoon catalog that opens with her words of introduction. When some of the world's top satirical artists celebrated the first censorship-free International Cartoon Festival in Budapest, they were welcomed by a gracious greeting that Barbara Bush composed for the festival's catalog. "Art and humor are essential in a free society," wrote the President's wife. "It is wonderful to see Americans joining with the new democracies of our world to help educate people with the perspective satiric art can give...
...rating sticks, Kaufman could become the most notable victim of an increasingly misguided system of self-censorship. Even in a year when the rating board has slapped Xs on a dozen films, the Henry & June rating sent new shudders through Hollywood's creative community. "Phil Kaufman does not make X-rated movies," says filmmaker James Brooks (Terms of Endearment). "So if Kaufman makes a movie that is rated X, then there's something wrong with the system...