Word: taboo
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...family treated him as if he were a public embarrassment. Homosexuality and AIDS were taboo in the town in which they lived, and the family took pains to ensure that the community knew nothing of his existence...
What the picture shows is an attempt to look as tarty as possible in an impossibly safe-sex world. "There's a blurring of the boundary between the taboo and what's acceptable," says author Valerie Steele (Women of Fashion), "with a constant testing of deviant or sexual styles." The effect is that of the "naughty schoolgirl" -- somewhat more innocent than that found in a child-porn magazine, but suggestive of it nonetheless...
...course, nothing wrong with using a column as a vehicle for social change. And Quindlen's writings have been bitingly sharp, as in one of her September columns when she explained in quite clear terms why Barbie does not endure P.M.S. Before Quindlen, such social commentaries were taboo for the staid Times...
...obvious indicators. The deepening silence of the patient Slaby calls Chad, for example, or the perpetual weeping of Sarah; John's eerie paintings, or Bret's getting himself kicked off the hockey team. Often, Slaby writes, depression is exacerbated when a youth feels shame over a subject that is taboo within the family: homosexuality, an unwanted pregnancy, the family's unacknowledged history of mental illness...
...bullying, philandering dad tells the boy to give up a prestigious summer job to care for his mother (Alberta Watson), he does so. Mom, who has broken her leg, is a dish, and David O. Russell's Spanking the Monkey soon reveals itself as The Graduate with one more taboo dropped. Instead of being seduced by his girlfriend's mother, Raymond eliminates the middle-woman and emulates Oedipus. . The tone here is so dry that many viewers refuse to see this smart-looking film as a comedy. It is -- a comedy of desperation, about a kid who really doesn...