Word: forbiddenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these frustrations is one and the same, and seemingly beyond her powers of control: her boss won't promote her unless she's tied down, financially and maritally, for fear she might abandon ship. And the man of her choice, fellow advertiser Sam (Kevin Bacon), only goes for forbidden fruit--women who are already spoken...
...discourage physical abuse, which was once tolerated though never sanctioned, drill sergeants are forbidden to so much as touch recalcitrant recruits in an effort to get them to perform. "Stress created by physical or verbal abuse is non-productive and prohibited," says the Army's training manual. "Drill sergeants used to be able to discipline soldiers on the spot when they misbehaved," McQueen says. "But now you can't even touch them to check their ammunition...
Union members have been forbidden to protest on HBS property and at Cash's home in Weston. They seek a statement from Cash objecting to Knight-Ridder's appeal of the court's decision...
Instead of sending us all home, I feel we should have been required to show our stamped health forms showing proof of the vaccinations. In this manner, only students who had not received the immunizations would have been forbidden from going on the trip. We have those stamped health forms for a reason--to show that we are immune to the measles. I received my immunizations 17 years ago. Now I can't go on a trip to the beach because someone else forgot to get vaccinated...
...peddling the promise of smut to suckers. If there was an art to grindhouse movies, it was the art of the spiel. As ace exploitation entrepreneur David F. Friedman (She Freak, Trader Hornee) boasts in Eddie Muller and Daniel Faris' breezy, authoritative, gaudily illustrated Grindhouse: The Forbidden World of "Adults Only" Cinema (St. Martin's Griffin; 160 pages; $19.95), "I've got a high school education in making movies but a Ph.D. in selling them...