Word: forbiddenness
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Agents have been forbidden to respond to Whitehurst's specific charges, but several claim that although he is a superior scientist, he would become petulant or vindictive when his superiors disagreed with him. "He was an impossible kind of guy to work with," says an official involved in the World Trade Center case. "If you were doing an investigation in a schoolhouse and there was an alphabet above the board and L and Z were missing, Fred would not venture an opinion that that had been an alphabet...
...American Film Institute is showing the 1912 The Life and Death of King Richard III, the oldest surviving U.S. feature film. For MGM in 1936, Leslie Howard (then 43) and Norma Shearer (36) played Romeo and Juliet. The movies have put Shakespeare in gangland (Joe Macbeth) and outer space (Forbidden Planet, from The Tempest...
...hailed as peace-bearing heroes when they captured the capital two weeks ago. In their first week the Taliban shut girls out of schools and ordered women workers from offices and hospitals. The shunning of women was impossible to ignore. At a press conference, two female foreign correspondents were forbidden to ask questions of the Acting Deputy Foreign Minister Shirmohammad Stanekzai, because, according to an aide, he "must not hear their voices." Meanwhile, men were given a month to grow beards, and the photographing of human figures--as well as certain buildings, military operations and "sensitive incidents"--was forbidden. Amnesty...
...This forbidden tinge is played up through scenes in the dark, such as the opening, which uses the instantly recognizable, timeless set-up of two kids (Ruth and Anna) with a flash-light trading words in bed. Arruda's Peter, so very often positioned near the door and the outside world beyond it, provides a contrasting authority figure...
...original documents. The result thus carries more scholarly authority than The Living Bible, but it remains remarkably similar in language to its popular predecessor. And its radical difference from the King James is apparent from the outset. In Genesis, when God discovers that Adam and Eve have eaten the forbidden fruit, the King James conjures up a roar of rebuke: "And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou has done?" The Deity in the New Living Translation sounds like a parent scolding a child who has just tracked mud into the kitchen: "How could...