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censor
censor Public official of ancient Rome (443–22 bc). Two censors were elected for 18-month terms. Besides taking the census, they supervised public works, finance and morals, and filled senatorial vacancies.
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 "Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland)")
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Censor calls 'cut' on role as moral guardian of movies.
Magazine article from: Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland); 1/7/2008; 682 words
; Censor calls 'cut' on role as moral guardian...four porn films last year THE IRISH Film Censor's Office will remove the "censorship...of its powers last year. The modern Film Censor has come a long way from sparing our blushes...
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Sex is great - that's why censors can't stand it: a sex therapist puts the sex-censorship movement on the analyst's couch and encounters demonized sex. (The Playboy Forum)
Magazine article from: Playboy; 5/1/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...the self, while the censor is the parent reassuring...not it actually is. Censors on both the right and...authority to judge-the censors, the ones who are afraid...more about sex; the censor deals with fear by shutting...information. Ultimately, censors know less than anyone...
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Censors haunted by images
Newspaper article from: Sunday Star-Times; 8/11/2002; ; 564 words
; FILM censors are turning to psychologists...banned movies. Chief censor Bill Hastings said all 14 censors had sought help. The...agrees. As chief film censor from 1991 to 1994, Wrightson...psychological help for today's censors.
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The Manila Envelope, Please...; Philippine Censors Ban Another Award-Winning Movie
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/16/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...When we last left the Philippine movie censors, they were under siege for demanding...winner of three Oscars, which the censors effectively banned as "immoral." Both...Review and Classification Board, as the censors' panel is officially known, has remained...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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EXPOSED:SECRET CENSORS WHO REFUSED TO PUT A BAN ON CRASH.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 4/5/1997; 700+ words
; ...RICHARD FALCON Became a censor after taking a doctorate...College, London. Former censors describe him as an intellectual...SYLVIA DENHAM A career censor whose brisk manner and...DAVID COTSON One of ten censors recruited to replace...went to live with fellow censor Janet Burgis. Jenny...
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`SNL' and the Censors; NBC Holds the Line Against Controversy
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/7/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...never get past network censors now. At least one network censor agrees. "Saturday...practice. Network censors took a new approach...summer because the censor demanded sketches be...seduce a blind man. Censors wanted it removed from...
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The ridiculously vital task of being a censor
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 11/17/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...British Board of Film Censors recently cut a scene...was cut because the censor thought the hen looked...Pandy. So in a way, censors these days have become...s enemy: as a censor. I have recently...these days, we noble censors can't shirk our...one time, being a censor contains the ...
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MK warns Knesset may abolish army censor
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 7/16/2003; ; 466 words
; ...Headline: MK warns Knesset may abolish army censor Byline: DAN IZENBERG Edition; Daily...reporter Ronen Bergman charged that the IDF Censor no longer allows publication of material...the state is in effect circumventing the censor by seeking a court order. He said it...
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Kano - Between Censors Board And Writers [opinion].
News Wire article from: Africa News Service; 8/4/2008; 700+ words
; ...is the concern of the Kano Censors Board, is the issue of morality...Kano filmmakers, which the Censors Board, has fought to their...establish a body as the Kano State Censors Board to wade in so that every...advancement? If yes, the state censor's board should know in advance...
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JOVAN MUSK COMMERCIAL BANNED BY NETWORK CENSORS
PR Newswire; 2/20/1992; 700+ words
; ...at sex in advertising. The censors say that they rejected the...it pokes fun at the network censors. The commercial asks, "How...scenes of a droll television censor commenting about what can and...anniversary sale. When the censors at the top three networks were...
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censor
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
censor originally (in ancient Rome), either of two magistrates who held censuses and supervised public morals. Later, in extended...
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She Done Him Wrong
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...whose contempt for all proprieties and censors was so manifest), Mae West asserted...for a time so enormous that the movie censors waited to put her in her place, or rather the place the censors thought she ought to occupy. Eventually...
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Propaganda and the News
Book article from: American Decades
...support for their policies; everywhere in war-torn Europe censors imposed themselves on journalism. How propaganda worked was...correspondents, who repeatedly saw their reporting lost to censors, were all too aware of how the objective press could be turned...
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Condensation
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
...pushing for the fulfillment of an unconscious wish and forces opposing it (the censor) is a good example of overdetermination but not of condensation, since the censor is not part of the latent dream thoughts. However, as soon as the signifying...
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Superego
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
...childhood sexuality), it encountered the need to posit a repressing agency, a censor associated with self-esteem. In contrast with hypnosis, which put the censor to sleep, psychoanalysis is essentially aimed at acknowledging and working out...
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