Word: restraint
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Students coming to Drag Night paraded a range of ostentatious, glittering costumes that suspended all gender-determined sartorial restraint for two hours...
...throw a party which Satan crashes. When things get bad, as we knew they would, the host stays calm and retreats to his somehow ghoulishly tiled bathroom There he calmly administers a progressively more severe regimen of beer (the devil kicked the keg), whisky, pills, heroin and cocine. The restraint of clever shot angles of the 23 minute film make up for the terrible dubbing and college dorm feel of the party (would the devil really show up at a dorm...
Christopher Durang '71s "Titanic" is theater for the id. Chronicling the final, hedonistic days of a dysfunctional family on the famously doomed ship, "Titanic" throws concepts like taste and restraint overboard, treating the audience to a voyeuristic daytrip through neurosis, incest and the broadest of sexual humor. Alexander S. Franklin '96's new production of "Titanic," through the strengths of its cast, steers a tight course through the hazards of obscenity and shock and treats the audience to a naughty good time...
...stage for a First Amendment appeal all the way to the Supreme Court, an Ohio federal judge affirmed his initial ruling barring Business Week from publishing an article on a pending lawsuit filed by Procter & Gamble against Bankers Trust. The ruling is a classic example of unconstitutional prior restraint, according to the magazine. The censored article was based on documents under court seal in the lawsuit. In an ironic twist, however, Judge John Feikens unsealed the documents in his new decision--thus enabling the magazine to belatedly print its story, though it lost the legal argument...
...Bosnian Serbs now hold about half of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 20% less than before their retreat--and the approximate share set aside for them in a proposed settlement. Why the sudden reverse after three years in which they called virtually all the shots in the war, ignored pleas for restraint and thumbed their noses at the world? What happened to the soldiers described by Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic in a recent Time interview as "no doubt the better fighters"? Was the Bosnian Serb army ever as good as it was assumed to be? Probably...