Word: forbidden
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...sexploitation: great-looking women being naughty. The auteurs of this genre (Radley Metzger, Jose Benazeraf, Russ Meyer) could seduce an audience already panting for a striptease; the movies were just that, promising more than they delivered but still delivering an eroticism that in the pre-porn days was both forbidden and liberating...
Players declined to comment on their meeting with Amaker or the ongoing search for a coach, stating that they have been forbidden to speak to the press by Scalise until the process has come to its completion...
...sentence whose brevity calls into question why he has been held for five years. Further, the gag order in the plea bargain suggests that the U.S. government is more concerned about what Hicks will say than what he will actually do following his release. Not only is Hicks forbidden from speaking to the press for a year and from filing any lawsuit against America or American officials, but he was required to retract his detailed accusations of torture. While Hicks’ circumstances themselves are not proof of any misconduct by the U.S. government, the implications are disconcerting. Particularly given...
...Elvis Stojko school. But the enmity is surely a gender-bending version of the 1994 feud between Kerrigan and Tonya Harding. In the movie, skating's criminal underside is personified by Stranz and Fairchild Van Waldenberg, a borderline-incestuous brother-sister pair whose long-skate routine has the theme "Forbidden Love," with Stranz skating as JFK and Fairchild as Marilyn Monroe. Arnett and Poehler's turn doesn't quite match Baron Cohen's as the French driver in Talladega, but Arnett gets points for smarming so nicely-nastily...
...MPAA needs the teen market. Tougher than most other national ratings boards on sexual images in movies, it's far more lenient when it comes to violence. In many countries, Saw was forbidden to those under 18. In the U.S., your 17-year-old could go and chaperone his younger siblings. The argument may be that sexuality is real and disturbs kids more than pretend maiming. But these ratings teach that sex is forbidden and killing is cool. They also tell the world that America is a place where violence rules...