Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...YEWESSERS sing while eating and drinking. The song is usually an apostrophe to hamburger or a dithyramb dedicated to cola, uncola or the beverage the citizens are forbidden to quaff on-camera: beer...
...characters," says Producer Joe Manetta, "the more they're writing, 'Please God, get them married. They're so right for each other.' " The couple probably will marry, but the network is hardly likely to rush the wedding. The Secret Storm, after all, is sustained by forbidden loves. And, as Chief Writer Gillian Houghton admits in a wry commentary on present-day America, "it's difficult to find one these days...
...bourgeois fantasy life, which is perhaps the point. Skinner is in many ways a bourgeois moralist. The excitement of Kinkade and her friends upon reading about Walden Two (it was "everything I had ever wanted," she gushes) can best be understood by viewing it as a garden of forbidden delights, but in which the institutions whose repressions create the fantasy remain intact. One can go about pleasing the senses only after he has felt the satisfaction of work well done. The titillations of adultery and free sex induce a dizziness curable in the stability of the marriage contract, which stipulates...
...hour. Says Nonie: "He's bearing up well under the circumstances, but for a man as active as Peter, the routine is boring him to death." Back in the capital, he has already become a nonperson. Local newspapers and the government broadcasting system are forbidden to discuss his case or even mention his name...
...German presence in Alsace, in fact, is stronger today than at any time since the Armistice. "They are buying back what they lost in two wars," complains a Paris-based salesman. "It's just a different form of occupation." Perhaps mindful of that possibility, French educational authorities have forbidden the teaching of German-language courses in Strasbourg primary schools...