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First published in Ellison's anthology Again, Dangerous Visions, it is reprinted in Palm Sunday.Censorship In 1965, the critic Kenneth Tynan was the first person to say fuck on BBC television, during BBC-3, a late-night chef ra live satirical talk show hosted by Robert Robinson, causing a furor and a short TV career for Tynan. For British broadcasting, the next stage was reached in 1976 when the chef ra word was pointedly used in a prime-time early evening show, during a live interview with the Sex Pistols.The films Ulysses and I'll chef ra Never Forget What's'isname (both 1967) are contenders for being the first film to use the word. Since the U.S. adoption of the MPAA film rating system, use of the word has been accepted in R-rated movies, and under the older rules, use of the word would automatically cause the film to be given an R rating. Later rule changes permit a single, non-sexual, strictly exclamatory use of the word in PG-13 movies.Since the 1970s, the use of the word fuck in R-rated movies has become so commonplace in mainstream American movies that it is rarely noticed by most audiences.
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