Word: harmfulness
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...More Harm. Still, New Wave Director Jacques Rivette knew that getting La Religieuse as a film past the heavy-handed censors of the Gaullist republic would require some fancy cutwork. He took the unusual precaution of submitting his script to the censors in advance-and had to do it three times before getting a version approved for shooting. While the cameras were still rolling, conservative Catholic spokesmen started complaining, eventually mustered over 200,000 letters of protest to the government, many of them from nuns who felt that the film would do irreparable harm to the image of the modern...
...Film Academy's annual awards ceremony. Smiling as Actor James Mason ticked off some of the winners in the lesser categories, she suddenly heard him intone: "Best Foreign Actress . . . Patricia Neal"-for her role as Admiral John Wayne's girl friend in the Pacific war epic In Harm's Way. Now weeping as well as smiling, Pat accepted the British "Oscar" and said: "It shouldn't have been me." The audience exuberantly disagreed...
...scrum's) top prospect. Sione came out for the team in the fall, wanting to play barefoot a la Michigan State kicker Dick Kenney. He competed in one game without shoes before giving in to the concern his fellow players had for his health. But that didn't harm his play. Sione's speedy 210 pounds has made him a feared tackler of enemy ball-carriers...
...really serious about opposing the Brookline-Elm St. route--is public endorsement of another alternative. Except for a route along Memorial Drive (which is not likely to be accepted), all paths through the City create substantial destruction. The Portland-Albany route, however, seems to do less long-range harm than the other possibilities. The Council must take a stand. If it doesn't the federal officials will almost certainly approve the state's selection of Brookline...
...resolution further stated that the "physical and psychological harm" to an unwanted child, to a poor family with too many children, "to a mother, pregnant too often, all demand this Bill...