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>Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 18:48:09 -0400
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>From:
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net (Mark Sullivan)
>Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Algren's trip
>
>Rene wrote:
>
>"Although censorship was rampant & one of
Sydney's 2 Top 40 stations was
>run by the Catholic church the line about "giving
head" was never
>censored because no-one in Australia knew what the
expression meant at
>that time, at least not before "Walk on the Wild
Side" came out."
>
>The same must have gone for US radio, as that line
was played, but
>"colored girls" was deleted.
Where was that, Mark?
It most definitely was _not_ deleted in north-Central Ohio,
which is not exactly a hot-bed of permissiveness, or racial
tolerance.
Of course that whole area is a bit, well, 'conflicted'. In
the 1970s a Medina, Ohio printing firm held a fanzine of mine
for nearly two weeks, before informing me that they "didn't
have to print that _kind_ of stuff". They never would give me
a reason in writing, but I'm pretty sure it was the full-page
illustration of a crucified alien that upset their
sensibilities.....
I refuse to read anything into the fact that the Very Same
company was, at the time, making Big Bucks printing posters.
Including, yes, the nipple-enhanced Farrah Fawcett one that
was so prominent at the time....
Different kind of "stuff", I presume.
-- Bill Bowers
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