Word: forbiddenness
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This was not an unusual occurrence: that miserable machine called in sick more often than your average Massachusetts state employee. But this time, there was no service technician who could show up for a quick fix: Governor Michael Dukakis had forbidden all civilian travel under a state of emergency that was to last almost a week. Not even Pat Sorrento, the Emperor of The Crimson's shop, could make it through the snow to rescue...
...expressed strong disapproval. I asked him whether the carrying out of the plan was officially forbidden. He said no, but that he wished us to understand that he thought the project very ill-advised. I reported what had taken place to the promoters, who decided to go ahead, notwithstanding the Dean's advice to the contrary," Clark later wrote...
...bedraggled defense team, meanwhile, may now offer a "stealth" psychiatric defense. By emphasizing the most bizarre aspects of their client's life and alleged bombing campaign -- even putting Kaczynski himself on the stand -- they will be priming jurors to believe what the accused has forbidden his lawyers from claiming aloud: that Theodore Kaczynski is insane...
...archetypal destiny of our times: a boy born in a peasant village in a world that had scarcely seen a wheel has ended up confronting the great forces of the day--exile, global travel and, especially, the mass media; and a man from a culture known as the "Forbidden Kingdom" now faces machine guns on the one hand and Chinese discos around the Potala Palace on the other. While Tibet is eroded in its homeland, it threatens to be commodified--or turned into an exotic accessory--abroad...
...fluff" like Max, but he's one who has chosen to play it safe by repressing his desires. And, fortunately, several of the play's most powerfully written moments have translated well to film. Especially remarkable is a pivotal scene in Dachau in which Max and Horst, forbidden to touch and kept under the ever-vigilant eye of their guard, make love to each other by using only words--and discover that orgasm really is in the mind...