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Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.


Malaysia habitually bars or heavily edits films with nudity, sexual scenes, or other material that might offend fundamentalist Muslims. The latest movie to be banned is Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. The picture's actual sexual content is fairly low, but its double entendres and innuendo innuendo n. from Latin innuere, "to nod toward." In law it means "an indirect hint." "Innuendo" is used in lawsuits for defamation (libel or slander), usually to show that the party suing was the person about whom the nasty statements were made or why the comments were defamatory. were too much for censors censor /cen·sor/ (sen´ser) the mental faculty that prevents unconscious thoughts and wishes from coming into consciousness unless disguised, as in dreams.

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