Word: forbiddenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...border post, the Iranian troops carefully search each vehicle for weapons -- Tehran insists that Kurdish fighters will find no haven in Iran -- as well as articles offensive to strict Islamic sensibilities. Pop-music tapes, for example, are forbidden, as is immodest dress. One woman, about to drive her Volkswagen up to the checkpoint, frantically tied a scarf over her hair but still stood out in a short skirt and knitted leggings. She managed to get through the checkpoint, but not before giving away her collection of tapes...
...cannot help relating to them. Debt -- especially debt run up in pursuit of pleasures beyond one's means -- is, after all, one of the central subjects of middle-class life, and also one that movies determinedly avoid. Even if this movie were less nuanced in its pursuit of the forbidden topic, it would be welcome. But dry, clear and finely tuned, The Object of Beauty is a treasurable chamber piece...
Director Orion Ross, along with producers Hannah Feldman and Thomas M. Lauderdale, made Duchess memorable both in innovation and production quality. The play they so successfully interpreted describes the plight of a young widowed noblewoman, the Duchess (Tanya Selaratnam), whose forbidden relationship with a lower-class man subjects her to the indignation of her brothers...
...predicts a U.S. official, "it's going to get really ugly" for the Kurdish fighters who have taken much of northeastern Iraq. "Saddam's probably going to use helicopter gunships, fixed-wing bombers, chemical weapons, napalm -- the works." U.S. forces earlier had forbidden the Iraqi military to fly warplanes and had actually shot down two. Washington had further hinted that it might attack helicopters flying against the rebels and retaliate, presumably by bombing, if Saddam used chemical weapons or napalm against his own people. But by the end of last week those warnings were exposed as a bluff that...
...many civil libertarians, the new turns of thought are fostering a decline in tolerance and a rise in intellectual intimidation. Says Leon Botstein, president of New York's liberal Bard College: "Nobody wants to listen to the other side. On many campuses, you really have a culture of forbidden questions...