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New technologies erode Israeli army censor's grip
News Wire article from: AP Online; 4/20/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...defense budget, and stories about the censor. The censor removed from this story a reference to...whether to submit stories and pictures to the censor. During the Persian Gulf War, however, censors were stationed around-the-clock at...
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Hitchcock and the Censors.(Alfred Hitchcock)
Magazine article from: World and I; 8/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...British Board of Film Censors scoured new motion pictures...understood. The chief British censor wore glasses with one...Hitchcock loved to kid the censors, yet he worked hard...screenplays and films censor-proof. He nonetheless...alleged clashes with the censors as fodder to promote...
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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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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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`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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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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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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The Bundys meet the censors at Fox. ('Married with Children' television program; Fox Broadcasting Co.)(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report; 9/11/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...today there are seven censors. They insist they do...does a Fox television censor do? Watch lots of TV...sharp scissors of the censor when issues arise with...written guidelines for censors like McFarland because...Goodman, a veteran CBS censor now with Fox, started...
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'Austin Powers' Faces Censors
News Wire article from: AP Online; 6/21/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...06-21-1999 'Austin Powers' Faces Censors LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Imagine hearing...nicely.'' That's the tamer translation censors in that country wanted for the hipster...obscenity for sex. Objections from foreign censors have complicated the international release...
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censor
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
censor supervisor of morals, etc. XVI. — L. cēnsor , f. cēnsēre pronounce as an opinion, assess, judge. Hence censor vb. XIX. So censure †judgement XIV; adverse judgement XVII...
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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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Visconti, Luchino
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...and he would remain a Marxist until his death. Censors and Church Denounced First Film Back in Italy...even though it ran into trouble with Fascist censors for its "obscenity." The censors objected to Visconti's steamy depiction of...
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Censorship: National, International
Book article from: Computer Sciences
...authority of adults, or differ from the censor's beliefs and traditions. Librarian...images, ideas, or language deemed by the censor to be negative in some way, whereas selection...experience the material in question. Censors trust only their own intelligence; selectors...
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Cato the Elder
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Cato the Elder or Cato the Censor, Lat. Cato Major or Cato Censorius, 234...praetor (198), consul (195), and censor (184). He was renowned for his devotion...Bibliography: See A. E. Astin, Cato the Censor (1978).
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