Word: taboo
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...topic echo the beginning of an Old Testament passage on rape ("If there be a virgin betrothed to a man, and if another ... should have lain with her"), suggesting violation as the cause of Mary's pregnancy. The Holy Spirit, in Schaberg's version, transmutes a ritually taboo pregnancy into an occasion of glory and the birth of the Holy Child...
...complex detail are put to special advantage. Marc Bell, for example, creates fantastical, hilarious universes filled with characters doing something in every corner. Besides a fearlessness of "blowing up" edgy creators, Harkham's boldness also shows itself in a willingness to expose the materials of comix. The typically taboo corners, edges and surfaces of the original artwork have been made fully visible in some cases. "Castor and Pollux," a poetic single page by an artist known as "C.F." appears on a piece of torn-out spiral notepaper, complete with the rough fringe on the left edge. Souther Salazar's "Fervler...
...five-star detoxification center for those with problems of addiction (to anything from alcohol to drugs to gambling), located in the stunningly beautiful surrounds of Australia's Byron Bay. Its clients are entrepreneurs, top professionals and other affluent individuals for whom the subject of addiction may be painfully taboo. Instead of opting for a neighborhood 12-step program, they would rather ensconce themselves in the opulent seclusion of the Sanctuary's beachfront villas, which come with all the accoutrements of a luxury resort...
...urged the Union to "take new action to sustain Europe's demography and better reconcile professional, personal and family life with the aim of permitting couples to have as many babies as they want." Ron Lesthaeghe, a demographer at the Free University of Brussels (V.U.B.), is happy that the taboo has been broken, but he says, "It's still too little, too late." Immigration has so far staved off population shrinkage in countries like Germany, where death rates already exceed birth rates, but even at numbers far beyond current levels it will have scant influence on the long-term balance...
...country where married couples don’t go out arm in arm…the idea that a husband and wife should embrace and dance in front of others is beyond embarrassing.” Chelsom never explains what makes ballroom dance equally taboo in 21st-century Chicago. He tries to plug this plot hole subliminally instead by making Miss Mitzi’s look a lot like a brothel, but it’s hard to salvage a bungled plot with neon lighting and sweaty-palmed patrons...