Word: taboo
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...doesn’t have that kind of bias. There, it wasn’t unusual for Davey to have married his high school sweetheart, a girl he’d been dating since he was 15, while a sophomore in college. And it wasn’t taboo to challenge the separation between church and state. Indeed, the school recently featured a summary of Davey’s case prominently on its website...
...were teens in the back row of the theater. Now it's all up there on the screen. When a determined gay client locks lips with his architect in the recent film Arisan!, a satirical exploration of Jakarta's nouveaux riches, audiences can't get enough. "Very little is taboo anymore," says Titi Kamal, an up-and-coming actress who appeared in the biggest hit of last year, Eiffel ... I'm in Love, a teen romance set in Jakarta and Paris. Since its November release Eiffel has drawn more than 2.2 million viewers eager to see teen idols dealing with...
...have long since grown accustomed to gray-haired men dating younger women, but the reverse was once taboo--think of the comedic value of Mrs. Robinson seducing Benjamin in The Graduate. Now things are changing. According to a survey in AARP magazine, 34% of single women ages 40 to 69 are dating younger men. "We're seeing it more frequently than we did before, and women in particular are less likely to accept society's norms than they were before," says preventive-medicine physician Roger Landry, an expert on aging...
...female masturbation, if fairly prevalent, remains taboo—so taboo that when Britney Spears admitted to doing it, she made the news. One can hardly imagine a similar surprise if Justin Timberlake scribed a song about the touch of his hand...
Usually, it’s taboo to tinker with what’s working, but after a late-game comeback 4-3 victory over Colgate on Friday night, the Harvard women’s hockey team slotted sophomore Julie Chu as a center on the second line in its contest against Cornell Saturday afternoon...