Word: taboo
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Drechsler has earned a comix rep since the early 1990s working exclusively in the genre of semi-autobiographical comix about growing up. Collected together in "Daddy's Girl," many of these deeply disturbing stories dealt with such taboo subjects as rape and familial sex abuse. Therefore anyone who knows her past work may be excused for feeling somewhat anxious with each turn of the page of her latest book. But worry not. "The Summer of Love" deals exclusively with the most typical of teenage experiences - alienation, confusion and anger...
...Summers, Harvard’s own “Ariel Sharon of higher education,” found a way to infuriate just about everyone. With the new school year barely a week old, Summers has acted again in what is now his signature style: commenting publicly on a taboo subject and inciting debate both on campus and across the country. Good for him. And in a move that is less likely to garner national headlines but may be just as important for Harvard undergraduates, Summers last weekend broke with recent presidential tradition to host an event solely intended...
...about 250,000 children. The number of orphans who have lost their parents to AIDS is expected to approach 2 million by 2010. And a major obstacle in the fight against the disease is the stigma associated with it. The subject of AIDS is regarded by many people as taboo and sufferers, whether adults or children, are treated as social outcasts. "There are few media interventions that directly address HIV/AIDS for very young children," says Gloria Britain, Takalani Sesame's production manager. "We saw how we could help fill this void." After months of discussion, Takalani Sesame came up with...
...Other governors are proving to be even more radical. They are the Japan that can say no. Governor Shiro Asano of Miyagi prefecture broke a taboo in December 2000 when he allowed public access to police records as a means to make government more transparent. Governor Masayasu Kitagawa of Mie prefecture unilaterally canceled a major nuclear power plant, a project as dear to Tokyo's planners as Nagano's dams. And in Tokushima, Governor Tadashi Ota won re-election in April 2002 by promising to stop construction of a giant sluice dam on the Yoshino River. In a recent referendum...
...retro-rock productions are so crass. A quieter new musical hit in London is an engaging little show called Taboo, which recaps the rise and drug-addled fall of Boy George, the androgynous former lead singer of the band Culture Club. The surprise is that, aside from three old favorites (with Karma Chameleon as the obligatory curtain-call rouser), the show has a new score, written by (former Boy) George O'Dowd himself. Helped by Christopher Renshaw's cabaret-style production and a dead-on performance as George by Euan Morton, O'Dowd's supple melodies and touching but tough...