Word: taboo
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...TIME.com: It's interesting that both of his taboo issues also have an electoral function for Putin...
Growing up in an era where the U.N. has been made to symbolize peace, it is taboo in educated circles to reject the institution, even scoffed at as puerile or cowboy-ish. But the blind homage paid to the world body on this, the organization’s birthday, should not cloud the fact that the U.N., by virtue of its membership’s extremely divergent interests, is an impotent organization, powerless to truly halt affronts to human rights...
...Saturday night, the gay (or straight) visitor will be impressed by the vivacity of the area: a clutch of discos, bars and restaurants, with guys and gals in their hundreds wandering from one rowdy place to another, often arm in arm (although kissing in public seems to still be taboo, even in gay venues). Gay life is not confined to a pink ghetto, though. There's a lively disco at Centro, opposite the venerable Fullerton hotel, that stages a gay event on Sunday nights just a short walk from the High Court. On the same night, the nearby Embassy Club...
...with their boyfriends at the Water Bar disco in Chinatown on a Saturday night, right next to a group of funky gay Asians, while a more mature Caucasian in black is doing Mick Jagger imitations with a tall, brush-cut young Chinese in baggy jeans. But wander over to Taboo, the must-go, packed-out gay disco on Tanjong Pagar, and you will find a bevy of gay teenagers from every race bopping on a podium in the corner and half the room full of guys with their T shirts off. It's not really a cruising joint...
...whether black people should be able to drink out of the same water fountain as white people? I don't, though I think they would have made great Time.com questions of the week. It makes me sad to think that I will be an old man before it is taboo to discuss whether or not homosexuals should have the same rights as other Americans. Frank Griggs Astoria...