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...perhaps Catherine would have had more than two dimensions. The first is what Edmund Wilson called "the all- too-perfect felicity of a youthful erotic dream." The second hinges on the age-old view of woman as the cause of original sin. Catherine is a spoiler whose taste in forbidden fruit threatens the private Eden of David's art. It is the place where he struggles with his own lost innocence...
...Jewish religious context is a function of the relative weight given to two biblical verses. The first is most commonly introduced into discussions of this nature is Leviticus 18:22, which forbids and denounces as an abomination sexual relations between two men. (Sex between women is not specifically forbidden in the Bible, but is prohibited by extension in subsequent Jewish law.) The second is Genesis 1:27, which reminds us that each human being, male and female, has been created in the Divine Image. From this, tradition derives that each of us is infinitely valuable in our own right...
Coming shortly after the Fatty Arbuckle scandal, the Taylor murder and its accoutrements of drugs and sex led to the creation of the Hays Office and its puritanical Production Code. For nearly 30 years, Hollywood films were forbidden to show even a married couple making love or to allow the use of words like pregnant or virgin. The careers of Normand and Minter were ruined, but nobody was ever prosecuted for the Taylor murder...
WASHINGTON--The Food and Drug Administration plans to give the food industry a chance to make previously forbidden health claims for food on supermarket shelves, with the warning that if claims become outlandish, "we will come down on you--hard...
...related development, the Vatican unexpectedly dropped the sanctions that had been imposed on Franciscan Father Leonardo Boff, the leading liberation theologian of Brazil, who had been forbidden to speak publicly for nearly a year. "The decision on my case cleansed the atmosphere before publication of the document," said Boff, who teaches at a seminary in Petropolis. He believes that the lifting of sanctions demonstrated a new Vatican attitude of openness and "confidence in the (Brazilian) bishops," two-thirds of whom side with some form of liberation theology. Nonetheless, Rome's action has not eliminated the rift between Boff and conservatives...