Word: coding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past fortnight, the man who knows all anyone needs to know about U.S. censorship has been in London trying to explain it in simple English. It is a tough job-even for the Johnston Office's jowly, jolly Joe Breen. No. 1 U.S. "interpreter" of the Hollywood morality Code...
...basic fact that amazes the British: the Code is a voluntary brake Hollywood puts on itself. Its clearest purpose: to keep non-Hollywood censors-official and amateur-out of the industry's hair. (The Code's dozen-odd pages of printed rules need no explanation. Samples: "Adultery . . . must not be ... justified, or presented attractively. . . . Complete nudity is never permitted...
...prevent snooping by casual callers, the playback can be controlled by setting a code number in the machine before leaving. When you call from outside, after the Ipsophone has announced itself, you say firmly: "Hello, hello." The Ipsophone then switches to another track and slowly reels off a series of numbers; after each number in the code you repeat, "Hello, hello." If you get the combination right, the Ipsophone plays back the messages; if not, it emits a derisive busy signal. After hearing all the messages, you wait for a sign-off buzz, then pronounce, "Erase, Erase," and the record...
Uses of Publicity. Clark talks (and sometimes curses) out of the side of his mouth, though his vocabulary of profanity is limited; his favorite epithet, which he shares with Ike Eisenhower, is "ybsob" (code for yellow-bellied s.o.b.). Clark is no intellectual, knows little and cares less about art and literature; friends estimate that his yearly ration of books amounts to two at the most...
...France, he whispered a pre-arranged code word to one of the ring's French agents, who handed him 120,000 French francs in exchange for the 1,200 Swiss francs "deposited" in Geneva. At the official rate (30 to 1) he would have got only 36,000 French francs. Thus he was 84,000 French francs ahead...