Word: taboo
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...which raises the question, Is Yeltsin an alcoholic? Officially, the subject is taboo, and no one close to the President talks about it. But some Yeltsin watchers claim to see a pattern in the President's political gaffes -- like the recent emotional outburst when he refused to see visiting former U.S. President Richard Nixon -- that might dovetail with weekend drinking bouts. Russian journalists claim they have been prevented from covering the President's return to Moscow from trips because he is too inebriated to meet the press after a long flight of tippling. The widespread impression Yeltsin has made...
Part of the problem in living in a society where sex is constantly present but is still taboo as a conversational topic. The media and advertisers send out messages of sex in the same breath that they caution us about AIDS...
Pritchard and Gutierrez, producing the "zine" from their San Francisco apartment, proudly explain their writing selection by the fact that they have "no taboo subjects." Looking for "truly transgressive and well-written" work, Pritchard and Gutierrez also require that it be genuine, and evidently see no contradiction in their boast, "Our fiction is real." Gutierrez insists that we are repressed in our daily lives, and it is therefore important that these writers can "write their own truth." Thus featured is "Piercing Insights," an expose, complete with eight graphic photos of Nancy Irwin enjoying the experience of having 60 22-gauge...
...America film. The independent Propaganda Films is developing two projects: Good Days, a gay coming-of-age story from John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy, Sunday Bloody Sunday); and, with Oliver Stone and HBO, an adaptation of Conduct Unbecoming by Randy Shilts (And the Band Played On). "Nothing takes the taboo off of anything in Hollywood like box office," says Propaganda's boss Steve Golin. "These guys'll make anything they think will make money...
These are no longer theoretical problems. The once taboo topic of means testing -- linking government payments to income -- was debated at a recent high-level White House meeting. The President mostly listened, but proponents of some kind of limitation included Vice President Al Gore, Budget Director Leon Panetta and presidential counselor David Gergen. Their rationale: only by restraining entitlements can the Administration afford new programs and further deficit reduction. "Everyone agrees this is something to be looked at," confides a senior White House official. "Even a novice looking at the budget can't help seeing what's happening to entitlement...