Word: forbiddenness
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This is a tender book. The outlaw Elvis, the performer one fan called "a great big beautiful hunk of forbidden fruit," the savvy, surly dreamer who once remarked to a reporter, "You can't be a rebel if you grin," is set forth here as a kind of perpetual lost boy who clung to the sure anchorage of his family and friends. But as the book closes, friends become salaried employees, and the hometown girls are outnumbered by stars flying in from Hollywood. Natalie Wood came to Memphis and lasted four days, stunned by the celebrity madness surrounding Elvis...
Sometimes the script is just plain cheesy. Alderaan is depicted as a hippie commune where hunting is forbidden unless ecologically appropriate. For goodness sake, no matter what kind of a threat the Empire is, the people of Alderaan would never dream of taking up arms to defend themselves. Is it a wonder, with this PC weirdness, that Leia joined the rebel alliance? They don't do her character any favors either, but at least the script makes clear all the ambiguities between her and Luke and Han which were so baffling to me as a child...
...version) was a virgin, perkily defending that status while the threat to her innocence, Mike the Playboy (Warren Beatty), was shadowed by Catholic guilt about his careless ways. (Remember those poignant visits to his wise old auntie's chapel?) These scruples served two functions: they heated up forbidden desires, and they gave a certain bent logic to the three-month hiatus the couple imposed on their affair, ostensibly to shed other commitments, really for the chaste contemplation of this one's radical implications...
...livelier sex, better sex? Maybe even that quiet couple right next door is having more fun in bed, and more often. Such thoughts spring, no doubt, from a primal anxiety deep within the human psyche. It has probably haunted men and women since the serpent pointed Eve toward the forbidden fruit and urged her to get with the program...
...drive rates down. Don't count your discounts yet, though. Regional phone companies like Ameritech in the Midwest are complaining about the MCI proposal, saying that if MCI gets to offer local service, the regionals should be able to jump into the long-distance market, something they're currently forbidden from doing...