Word: forbiddenness
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...Bernières has lost sight of what made his last book a smash: a yearning, forbidden relationship between two heroes. Instead, he gives us a dizzying flock of principal characters
...Bernières has lost sight of what made his last book a smash. It wasn't the exotic locale or political weight; it was the yearning, forbidden relationship between the two heroes, the betrothed Pelagia and the enemy soldier Corelli. De Bernières is an ardent storyteller, but not a good one. His structure is all over the place. He has said that he writes chapters out of order, as and when he feels like it, only later fitting them all together - and it shows. But what he can do is evoke the magic of the moment...
...cousins have secured a visa for him to go to Germany, where he hopes to find a decent high-tech job despite speaking no German. Female graduates have particularly dim hopes. Rawa Mahdi, 21, who received her degree in English literature last week, says she and her girlfriends are forbidden by their parents to leave Iraq without husbands. The trouble is that almost all the men she knows are fleeing. "The men might ask their families after a while to find them Iraqi wives," she says. "That...
After several more arms shipments, another hostage was released. By this time, Poindexter had delegated much of the maneuvering to his gung-ho assistant, Marine Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, who was also cooperating with the CIA in supplying arms to the Nicaraguan rebels, even though Congress had formally forbidden any such action. Somehow there emerged what North later called a "neat idea"--using money that the Iranians paid for illegal arms to buy more illegal arms for the Nicaraguan rebels...
...Square demonstrations, China's leaders have worked hard to ensure that their people think about politics in much the same way as Beijingers drive. Memories of the massacre, which Beijing euphemistically refers to as an "incident," are dangerous to the legitimacy of the regime, so acts of remembrance are forbidden. Last week, to ensure that the June 4 anniversary of the crackdown passed quietly, police kept the streets clear of those who insist on using their rearview mirrors: dissidents, former student activists and mothers of Tiananmen victims were all placed under surveillance...