Word: forbiddenness
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...years ago, when Heide Smith began photographing the Tiwi islanders, some of the older folk would say, "Better not photograph me, I might die soon," she recalls. For the Tiwi, as for most other Australian Aborigines, uttering a newly dead person's name or looking at their image is forbidden...
...hippie-artists--is more experimental than it usually gets credit for. In addition to the familiar anthems (Aquarius, Let the Sun Shine In), many of the songs are mere snippets, hewing to few of the traditional rules of show-tune writing. In several, characters simply rattle off lists--of forbidden sexual practices or illicit drugs or symbols of middle-class respectability: "Ain't got no home, ain't got no shoes, ain't got no money, ain't got no class ..." It was a kind of musical demolition job, tearing down the old conventions as well as society's taboos...
...roughly 85 miles (about 140 km) of subway and rail lines and a huge airport terminal. Forty million pots of flowers and 22 million trees were planted. As many as 1.5 million people were forcibly relocated. Some, like the Yu family, who ran a snack shop north of the Forbidden City, hung on till the very end, wrapping their structure in flags and photos of Chinese leaders in hopes it might stop the wrecking ball. It didn't. Less than 48 hours after the store was demolished to make way for a park, the spot where it stood...
...sided it might have meant the cancellation of the space shuttle. Then, in an interview last August with TIME, Gorbachev said that what he called fundamental research would not be covered by the ban. But Soviet officials subsequently explained that ''purposeful'' research on strategic defenses would still be forbidden. Since purpose would be a matter of declared intention, the American SDI would be outlawed, while the Soviets could continue testing huge high-energy lasers in Central Asia by claiming that they were for medical purposes. Even SDI skeptics like Sidney Drell believe that the U.S. should maintain a vigorous...
...Inchon, behind the enemy lines, rolled back the North Koreans and resulted in the capture of their capital, Pyongyang. Just as the war appeared to be winding down, Chinese armies poured across the Yalu River, once again reversing the tide. They too were pushed back, but MacArthur was forbidden to invade Mainland China. President Truman, reluctant to widen the conflict, ceremoniously dismissed the angry, defiant general, and two more years dragged by before an inconclusive truce was signed. The net result: both sides were more or less back where they had started, at a cost of 54,246 Americans...