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bowdlerization

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If Bingaman doesn't know -- and he most certainly should know -- that the Republicans will squeeze out every possible bowdlerization of real health care reform and then vote against it no matter what it contains, he is either hopelessly naive or completely disingenuous.
Aside from assigning a covert clerical status to writers and literary critics--"the divine literatus," as Whitman put it--supplanting sacred texts with literature would require the bowdlerization of at least nine-tenths of our literary canon.
In response to these two complaints by one viewer, Turner Broadcasting has pledged to excise every positive depiction of smoking from its library of Hanna-Barbera cartoons, a bowdlerization the company described as "a voluntary step we've taken in light of the changing times.
 
 
 
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