Word: forbiddenness
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...many grapes or make as much wine as they want; quantities are strictly limited. Moreover, they can't sell their wine as Merlot, or any other single grape variety - one of the most popular New World innovations. And under a regulation passed in the early 1990s, they are even forbidden from using their grapes to make table wine; the only production allowed in Bordeaux is of high-quality appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC). "They tied their own hands behind their back," says Christopher Carson, former ceo of the European arm of drinks firm Constellation, who played...
...Jesus Camp cannot answer that question; no movie can. If there is one faint ray of hope in the film it flickers briefly in a dorm discussion of Harry Potter. Most the kids say the J. K. Rowling books are forbidden in their homes. But one little boys admits, quite cheerfully, that when he is staying with his divorced father, he is permitted to read them. Let us not wonder if it was religious differences that drove his father forth. Or if religious belief is one way his former wife compensates for a broken marriage. Let's instead concentrate...
...purge the country of both Western culture and its own Persian, pre-Islamic past. Religious extremists consider it unfortunate that Iranians used to be Zoroastrians, or that the ancient Persian empire achieved its greatest triumphs before Islam's arrival. To that end, they compiled a long list of forbidden names that included Zoroastrians gods and goddesses, commanders of ancient Persian armies, and other such tainted, best-forgotten figures. You were free to call your eight children (the government was also promoting massive procreation to fuel the Islamic Revolution) by Ali, Hossein, Zahra, and the like. Indeed, Arabic names, except...
Licensed fragrances are one way to ensure more image control and power for stars: Jennifer Lopez's fragrance, Glow, rakes in more than $100 million a year for Coty, which has just launched a scent linked to Desperate Housewives, Forbidden Fruit?either a stroke of marketing genius or a sure sign of the apocalypse. Elizabeth Arden, which has turned an enormous profit on the bulletproof Elizabeth Taylor White Diamonds fragrance, introduced Britney Spears' scent, Curious?the No. 1 fragrance launch in 2004-05?and plans to present new products from Hilary Duff and, in an interesting turn, Danielle Steel...
...equivalent of our G. (The film had a limited, unrated release in the States.) Y tu mama tambien, Alfonso Cuaron's Mexican comedy-drama about two teenage boys and the slightly older woman they take on a jaunt, could be seen by 12-year-olds in France but was forbidden to under-18s by the MPAA...