Word: censor
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...gets to watch the sorry spectacle of a few theater people conspiring to prevent an actor from plying his craft. With all the best intentions, they are doing Helms' proscriptive work for him and proving that you don't have to be a philistine to get the censor's itch; in the process they threaten to deprive many actors of good jobs and the American public of seeing the world's hottest show...
...Censure, but not censor. The Harvard community should make clear that it disapproves of offensive speech, while allowing such speech nonetheless...
...Self, every one of which has had one or more top editors ousted and design face-lifts imposed. At the Random House book-publishing conglomerate, the longtime chief executive, a key division head and five other senior editors departed between November and March amid charges that Newhouse wanted to censor the politics of books and undervalued their social and cultural significance. He replied, "I do not like charity cases. I believe my operations should have the sense of security that comes from knowing their work leads to a profit...
...declared obscene. Comics get condemned by pressure groups. Serious movies garner X ratings. A Cardinal of the church blames a rock singer for teen suicides. In a four-letter world, what's a citizen to do? See it in perspective, and take it in stride. Another view: Entertainers should censor themselves before the state does it for them...
...revelations are subtle yet savory: Noonan hiding behind a pillar to avoid Nancy Reagan's disapproving glance at her outfit, or Bush's handlers trying to censor "read my lips," presumably because "lips are organs, ((and)) there is no history of presidential candidates making personal- organ references in acceptance speeches." Reagan remains almost entirely offstage in the first third of the book, as Noonan's initial meeting with the President (his hapless speechwriters had not spoken with him in a year) is abruptly canceled, and she has to settle for a glimpse of the presidential foot...