But Orwell's uneasiness over how to label the work is telling.
Several buildings were leveled by the attacks, which Somali officials quickly labeled the work of Islamist terrorists.
One path is to do a much better job of labeling the work — and please don't bother with the fine distinctions.
The censor labels the work immoral, or blasphemous, or pornographic, or controversial, and those words are forever hung like albatrosses around the necks of those cursed mariners, the censored works.
In 1995, the authentication board offered to designate Ms. Kligman's painting as a problematic work, which meant that if other scholars, with further study, labeled the work as authentic, the board would not object.
Most, like Lions for Lambs, In the Valley of Elah, Grace Is Gone, and Rendition have been labelled the work of anti-war Hollywood liberals who have no idea what they're talking about.
The historian Joseph Needham labeled the work of the Daoist alchemists as "proto-science rather than pseudo-science".
The Gjørv Report following the 2011 Norway attacks criticized several aspects of the police force, labeling the work as "unacceptable".
The only thing that's certain is that this $6 million independent production was at first intended to be entirely serious -- even if Tommy later, and lamely, labeled the work "a black comedy".
He used to get frustrated when people would try to label the work he was doing in music and the world as a musical genre -- samba, jazz, bosa nova.
