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Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
... have in common? Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom . These are all movies that received — at best — mixed initial critical reactions, and are now regarded by critics to be among the most significant films of our time. Bad press buried some of these films, which is truly a shame. But they survived to be reappraised...
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Threat Level (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
... Net Neutrality has for a long time been "let the market decide." For his part, former FCC Chairman Michael Powell, who McCain has tapped to put together his tech agenda, issued a carefully considered set of principles during his tenure, which were meant to establish ground rules to ensure that telecommunications companies wouldn't discriminate. Barack Obama has endorsed the concept...
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ECB (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Grant, who chased a wide one, while Hemp mistimed a pull and was also caught behind via a top edge.Michael Powell looked in relatively good form and was responsible for Glamorgan’s only two boundaries from the first 73 balls, before being bowled by Dernbach for 23, leaving the home side 39 for three.Glamorgan found themselves in more trouble when Jamie Dalrymple was trapped leg before...
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p2pnet (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
p2pnet news view | TV:- Janet Jackson’s right breast is in the news again. Four years ago, it looked as thought it might cost the CBS TV network a cool half a million dollars. A “wardrobe malfunction” then Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Michael Powell described as “classless, crass and deplorable” caused a significant portion of Ms [...]
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Eavesdrop DC (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Woman on metro: I go to William & Mary - [former FCC commissioner] Michael Powell basically runs the place now. Guy sitting next to her: So do you get fined every time you say 'fuck' on campus?
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humanities researcher (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
... level acknowledgement of the field at NCS, and in Swansea, the fact that Carolyn Dinshaw used the Michael Powell film, A Canterbury Tale, as a meditation on temporality, place, and the queer — even if she did not invoke medievalism directly — suggests the field has rapidly accrued some respectability.In addition to the several plenary sessions, there were a couple of what I'll call...
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The Left Coaster (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
A total rejection of former FCC chairman Michael Powell’s embarrassing tenure : A federal appeals court on Monday threw out a $550,000 indecency fine against CBS Corp. for the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show that ended with Janet Jackson's breast-baring "wardrobe malfunction." The three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Federal Communications Commission...
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Earth and other unlikely worlds (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Located in Newman Passage, a narrow dogleg between Newman Street and Rathbone Street in Fitzrovia, this door has been much spruced up since a prostitute led Carl Boehm’s murderous photographer through it at the beginning of Michael Powell’s film Peeping Tom . It leads now into the Newman Arms pub, which connects us back to the previous entry in this erratic little series, for during the...
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The Democratic Daily (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
... it for the play-by-play of the FCC’s dishonesty in its pursuit of alleged indecency under chairman Michael Powell. Phew … We can all rest a little easier now knowing that the FCC will have to think twice before imposing a fine when a pop star’s wardrope malfunctions during a live broadcast. Tags: Boob , Breast , Broadcast Material , Broadcast Programming , Cbs , Chairman Michael...
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Salon.com (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
... it for the play-by-play of the FCC's dishonesty in its pursuit of alleged indecency under chairman Michael Powell. Also for the details on a case called Young Broadcasting, because it was an important precedent here, but more importantly because it involved penis puppetry. Pending further appeals by the FCC, CBS gets to keep its half mil, but the rest of us will never get back all...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Glamorgan Dragons: Dean Cosker, Robert Croft, Jamie Dalrymple, Jason Gillespie, Richard Grant, James Harris, David Harrison, David Hemp (captain), Tom Maynard, Michael Powell, Mark Wallace, Alex Wharf and Ben Wright.
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The Navel of the Internet (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
... want, except for what you can’t do, and here’s what you can’t do.” Rather than enumerate freedoms, Michael Powell should have enumerated restrictions, on users, carriers, and services. That’s hard work, but it’s the kind of thing that serious policy-makers do. Restrictions should start with the following list: 1. You can’t lie to your customers or the public, nor can you be economical...
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ECB (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
... to wicketkeeper Steve Davies – he then stuck twice in his fourth over. Davies held a chance from Michael Powell at the second attempt and Jamie Dalrymple was lbw to the second ball he faced.Opener Gareth Rees survived the crisis to reach an unbeaten 59 and Mark Wallace (37 not out) played positively in their unbroken stand of 80.The day had started with Worcestershire piling up the...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
... in this Atlanta suburb. 'The people who say this
apparently haven't been listening to me.'" (Michael Powell, "Obama Says His
Critics Haven't Been Listening," The New York Times, 7/9/08)
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