Word: forbiddenness
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...There is still a penal code-style mentality [toward sex]," Father Knotz said at a press conference promoting the book at the headquarters of the Polish Catholic Church Episcopate. "People ask me what is allowed and what is forbidden in bed. [That attitude] is ridiculous...
...lake and snuck into her backyard. John Yettaw of Missouri was arrested as he was paddling back from Suu Kyi's villa in early May. The American was put on trial the same day as Suu Kyi, charged with various crimes, including immigration violations and swimming in a forbidden part of Inya lake in Burma's commercial capital Rangoon. Two of Suu Kyi's aides, who live with her, are also on trial. (See pictures of Burma after Cyclone Nargis...
...committed an act of gross indecency, but you did it under one of London's most beautiful bridges.") But the need to be with another man was too strong to resist: "Caught between the Canon and the criminal law, I said goodbye to my girlhood." As he embraced forbidden love, he let go of Catholicism. "I was now a very happy, very contented, born-again atheist. Thank...
...occasion for the church on all levels to examine our consciences regarding the integrity of our commitments." He's right; but scandals like this also prompt Catholics to more closely and critically examine the battered integrity of their church. And while they may not applaud Cutié for tasting forbidden fruit, they may not condemn him as harshly as the church thinks they should either...
...DVDs. Maybe there is a business model: Feltenstein uses the network to promote the classic DVD collection, and vice versa. The video stores and Netflix are groaning with TCM collections, the best being three editions of Forbidden Hollywood, multipacks of Warner and MGM films from the pre-Code era that TCM helped revive. (Must-buy: Vol. 3, with a half-dozen rough diamonds directed by William A. Wellman.) Last month TCM began offering personalized movies: you choose a title from a list of films that haven't yet made it to DVD, pay about $15, and get one of these...