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...morality more than anything that had gone before, and pressure on the studios began to build until Code compliance became standard in 1934. The self-censorship mechanism was in place, and it dominated major U.S. releases without exception until 1953, when Otto Preminger used the word "virgin" in "The Moon Is Blue" and got away with it. Even David O. Selznick had to beg Hayes Office approval for the final "I don't give a damn" in "Gone With the Wind." The Code insured that all married couples used twin beds, that no kiss lasted longer than 10 seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monkey On My Back | 3/9/2001 | See Source »

Many would find it absurd to challenge Pluto's planetary qualifications. It circles our sun, it has a moon (Charon, the boatman of the Styx), it is roughly spherical, it has an atmosphere--and it has a cartoon dog named after it. If that's not enough for a planet, what...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, | Title: Editor's Notebook: In Defense of Pluto | 2/28/2001 | See Source »

...mother of invention." What necessitates the use of this aircraft? The cold war is over, and we are not at war. So why is the military so careless with the lives of those who must take the risk of flying the Osprey? This nation put a man on the moon in less time than it has taken to get this aircraft off the ground with doors that open and functional cooling-heating and communications systems. Sometimes the art of being a great leader is knowing when to cut your losses and get out. Do we have that great leadership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 26, 2001 | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

...therapeutic" human cloning. That means that you cannot grow your clone in a uterus to produce a copy of yourself, but you can grow it in a test tube to produce organs as spare parts. Anyone who believes that such lines will not be crossed is living on the moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Pro-Lifers Are Missing the Point | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

...tonight I shall put my wallet in the window before I go to sleep. It's said that if you do that at the time of the full moon, it works even better than Greenspan to ward off recession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Night to Remember | 2/8/2001 | See Source »

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