Word: taboo
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Until recently, corporate America would never consider cutting the salaries of many to avoid cutting the jobs of a few. But these days, a wide range of businesses, from San Francisco ad agencies and high-tech outfits like Agilent to steelmakers in Pittsburgh, are breaking the taboo. "We did a 7% layoff that probably would have been 15% had we not done some creative things," says Charles Morgan, 58, CEO of the database-management firm Acxiom, of Conway, Ark. In April the company made a 5% reduction in salaries for people earning more than $25,000, then gave stock options...
...Nothing physical. People get upset, but it’s really taboo to lose your cool in front of everyone else. You wait until you go home, and then you start yelling and shit. Think about it. Subjectively, $300-$400 feels like a lot of money because it can buy a lot of beer. But in the objective sense it’s not a lot of money. It’s not enough that anyone’s gonna risk actually hurting themselves, hurting somebody else, or breaking a friendship. It’s just not enough money...
...kidney ailment and died slowly over the next five years. The son comforted his mother and mopped blood from around the dialysis machine. The experience, which he terms "living between life and death," seems to have engendered a kind of fearless openness. As a preacher, Jakes takes on still-taboo topics like physical and sexual abuse and the shame of incarceration with a cathartic and psychologically acute explicitness. (Speaking to 64,000 women in New Orleans recently, he flatly broached a mother's nightmare: "You got a problem with your child. It's been 10 years since you've seen...
...text of the messages is presumably intended to personify the piece of clothing as an extension of the owner, concealing taboo desires within acceptable trappings of modern society. Like the rest of Udé’s exhibit, this series directly questions one’s sense of normality. Although the graphic descriptions in the ads may cause some viewers discomfort or occasion disapproval, these “special order” shirts and shoes still pose questions about the way one should perceive the world...
...kokujo's particular infatuation, and by definition that is dehumanizing. If you are saying a black is better than a white, that's racism, albeit through a twisted, hip-hop hula hoop. And isn't part of the appeal of these black Americans that they represent some taboo, the stereotype of potency and virility, combined with the perception that Western men are more romantic than Japanese...