Word: snips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...table to reveal any irresponsible freedom or censorship that might "already exist." Perhaps such a critical hand might be just helpful enough to bluff the aim of some joker's camera or steady a film editor's slippery scissors that can hack or heal history in one snip...
HONG KONG--The Peking, People's Daily reported that Red China's barbers recite Mao Tse-tung's thoughts and slogans without stop from the first to the last snip of their shears...
...appear, said CBS, the tape contained a "sermonette" segment that was in poor taste. Tom Smothers pointed out that: 1) there is no Wednesday-deadline provision in the contract; 2) the tape was submitted to the CBS Los Angeles office on Wednesday anyway; 3) the brothers had agreed to snip the offending sermonette. CBS's real motive, said Tom, was to find a costless way to cancel the $4.5 million Smothers contract at a date so late that the other networks could not fit them into next fall's schedule...
...Sunday perch, the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour has recently drifted as low as 47th on the Neilsen charts. Though NBC's front-running Laugh-In continues to get out spoken and risque material past its own censors, the Smothers say that often they are required to snip even the mildest material. On the disputed program, for example, Folk Singer Joan Baez dedicated a song to her husband, a convicted draft resister, with the preface: "He is going to prison for three years. The reason is that he resisted selective service and the draft and militarism in general." The second...
...trying to close it. If they are renewing us, it's not because they want us, but because if they don't, we might go to another net work and come back to haunt them." That may be, but even before the cen sors started snip-snipping, some viewers thought the Smothers Brothers' once excellent program was becoming a ghost of its former self...