Word: forbiddenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proposing that pot be given out in Ec 10. Instead, I am proposing that Harvard take a less harsh view of the forbidden pleasures of growing up and show more compassion toward its students. Many other universities have taken this approach and their campuses have not turned into drug dens and moon-shine distilleries, nor have their students become druggies. Living in the Yard reminds me of an Orwellian state--not of the college I dreamed about. --Dorian Berger...
Cambridge law prohibits deliveries before 7 a.m. on weekdays and 9 a.m. on weekends. Party noises beyond 50 feet from their origin after 11 p.m. on weekdays and midnight on weekends also are forbidden...
...times, it is salvaged by the spectacle of the circus surrounding it. Perhaps the most valuable supporting role belongs to the hotel itself. Inspired by a Niagara Falls honeymoon hotel, the Hotel de Love features outrageously creative "theme" rooms such as the "Garden of Eden" room, complete with tree, forbidden fruit and serpent, and the "The Grand Finale Passion Suite," modeled after a cricket stadium with astro-turf and recordings of cheering crowds. The rooms nearly steal every scene in which they appear...
...flood of 'zines that launched last year. It was silly and fun and new, and it took the kinds of risks you don't take if you've already found a market. In the weeks preceding the Democratic National Convention, for instance, Stim's political commentator was forbidden to read or listen to press accounts of the presidential race; he had to write his stuff cold. Then when the Dick Morris scandal broke, Halpin immediately dispatched the writer to find and interview a prostitute. "We wondered if maybe hookers were untapped sources of political gossip," says Halpin. For the "security...
...like a movie," she says. "They butchered him on the stand." Found guilty of theft--despite the fact that both the ideas and notebooks were his--Taborsky was given a year's suspended sentence, a year under house arrest and 15 years' probation. And, the judge ordained, he was forbidden to use or profit from his notes or his invention...