Word: taboo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These British programs may eventually show up on U.S. TV screens. But foreign-language fare, no matter how good and accessible, has an almost insurmountable problem: subtitles are a virtual taboo on American TV. It is a terrible shame. At a time when programmers are searching for unusual fare to attract bored viewers, would it be too outlandish for one network to devote a couple of hours on a slow summer evening to a prizewinning TV movie from Europe? With cable channels scrounging to recycle the most obscure American shows from the '50s and '60s, has no one thought...
...taboo against revealing what you really feel and really think about this...interests me," Smith said. "It really seems like there are many people who feel that the Holocaust should be closed to free inquiry...
...Frohnmayer enraged artists by suspending a few grants on political or sexual grounds and by requiring all recipients to certify in writing that their work was not obscene, a term even the U.S. Supreme Court has trouble defining. He then irked conservatives by dropping the certification and reinstating some taboo artists. He tried to appease two sides utterly uninterested in compromise -- one ablaze with the First Amendment, the other afire with populist indignation at forcing citizens to support unwelcome ideas. He was also contending with congressional demagoguery and, inside the agency, with a deputy and potential successor, Anne-Imelda Radice...
...hope the next time you consider ridiculing what some people hold sacred, you will be less blinded to common decency by the journalistic thrill of taboo-smashing. Thomas Spence, GSAS Claire Valente, GSAS
...think what would happen if we cast that one last taboo aside and acknowledged that the real political equation might be the rich vs. the rest of us! George Bush would no doubt continue to complain, in ever shriller tones, about the dangers of "envy and divisiveness." Pat Buchanan, Clinton and other faux men of the people would have to admit that their assets place them securely within the Porsche-driving class. And the rest of us, especially in the vague middle strata, would have to toss out our lottery tickets and knuckle down for the struggle for national health...