Word: tabooed
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...history of Japanese baseball. His refusal shocked team officials and fueled speculation that the superstar outfielder, who becomes eligible for free agency at the end of next season, might be contemplating his own move abroad. If the leading member of Japan's royal house of baseball deserts, the last taboo will have been broken. And when that happens, either meaningful change will have to be made or there may not be much of the Japanese game left to save...
...phrases and slicing of sentences, are really semanticists when it boils down to it. And diplomacy, when it boils down to it, is mostly semantics. The present standoff between the United States and China over the downed spy plane is all about lexical boundaries - which a-words ("apology") are taboo, which r-words ("regret") are insufficient, which s-words ("sorry") are being broached. It's no accident that former Nixon speechwriter and foreign-policy maven William Safire is now a usage columnist for the New York Times...
...Above the whole crisis (is it a "standoff" or a "crisis"? You see?) looms the biggest taboo word of all, the h-word: "hostage...
...past. In fact, Nonzee himself is on the board now, so he is hoping to get away with more. "Everybody in Thailand is having sex everyday," he says, "yet nobody wants to confront it openly, talk about it openly. It's people's hypocrisy that makes it taboo. We need to be more honest about sex. It's not a crime." In addition, Nonzee is not throwing away any stuff too steamy for local consumption. "I'll do two versions of this movie," he grins. "One for Thailand and one for everybody else." Sly. That's the Nonzee...
...world doesn't know in what kind of corrosion we live here. There are no extras in our lives besides survival." He also brings his grim perspective to a live two-hour radio talkshow, Radio Pirates, which is shaking up Bulgaria's stodgy media establishment by examining for-merly taboo issues - like aids, homophobia and neo-Nazism - on which the government is seen to have failed. Karbovsky's message is unrelentingly bleak. "I gave this country my youth, my hopes, lots of hard work," he says. "Now all I want is for the material world to stop being a problem...