Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pornography is hard to find. Topless and bottomless dancing are strictly forbidden. Thus it came as an extraordinary shock when a county grand jury indicted Cincinnati Police Chief Carl V. Goodin, 42, the commander of the vice squad and six other cops last month for charges ranging from bribery and extortion to perjury. At the same time, Larry Flynt, paunchy publisher of the raunchy new skin magazine Hustler, was indicted on charges of bribery and sodomy. Last week the grand jury reconvened, and still more indictments are expected...
...Forbidden Fruits. Horror stories were told in prehistory-there are monsters in the cave paintings. In ancient Egypt, the god Osiris was chopped to pieces on the orders of his mother. Terror haunts Beowulf and the Book of Job. But horror as civilized commercial entertainment arose in the rationalist 18th century, and its compensatory function was recognized. In one of his Caprichos, Painter Francisco Goya said it all: "The sleep of reason breeds monsters...
...from Horace Walpole, a wealthy English dilettante who built his own medieval castle and in 1764 published the first gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto. Madness and murder stalk Otranto's parapets, but violence is held to an artful minimum: Walpole's readers wanted to nibble at forbidden fruits-but not to find worms...
...liability insurers to experiment with "mass-merchandising" techniques-selling policies by mail, for example, with no agents involved-and also with writing group policies, as life and health insurers commonly do. At present, property and liability insurers have no incentive to try these strategies; they are in effect forbidden by some state authorities to pass to consumers the savings in costs that might result...
...have either gone bankrupt or suffered dramatic losses. The Government accused Peat, Marwick of such practices as counting sales before they were made or blithely taking management's word for certain figures without independent verification. The suit was settled by a consent decree under which Peat, Marwick was forbidden with some exceptions to take on new clients for six months this year. The Securities and Exchange Commission has ordered three other reviews of Peat, Marwick practices as part of the consent decree -but it applauds the idea of auditors studying each other as well...