Word: tabooed
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What seems to make Archie so risque is his hitherto taboo bigotry and racism. He rails against coons and Polacks, drunken Irishmen and greedy Jews. (All of which leaves us wondering about his own ethnic background.) He also deals with other burning issues of the day--liberation for the women, and even for the gays. This supposed social relevance is what makes Archie and Edith so popular...
...complicity with evil he probes in The Shop on Main Street. Kadar has moved beyond a smoothly delineated story to create a disturbing aura of the off-balance and indefinite. The moral wrong against the Jews depicted in the older film may be more immediately dramatic, but the morally taboo of Adrift is ultimately more interesting. Kadar resolves none of the dilemmas that his movie raises; he merely suggests the universality and complexity of its problems. Uncertainty is at the film's center. Yanos questions himself so completely that he becomes unsure of the existence of the girl...
...York City, the Knapp Commission exposed mostly "clean" graft-that is, the free meals, liquor and tips that are handed out by businessmen and gamblers as a matter of routine. Last week the commission moved on to "dirty" graft-the payoffs from narcotics pushers that used to be considered taboo even by cops on the take. A mixed media presentation of film, tapes and testimony showed that far too many cops are now as willing to take dirty money as clean...
...pool is for serious swimming only. Lolling, loitering on the ladders, fondling and other forms of country club pool behavior interfere with serious swimming and are taboo. (Why not set up the Radcliffe pool with sunlamps, coke machines, chaises longues, etc., so that it would attract people who associate swimming with dating?) Tag, king-of-the-raft, horseplay and other forms of activity appropriate in YMCA and public swimming pools are limited to Saturday morning...
...There was some achievement during the first half of my life," he reflects, "success, stability, family, money." Now in middle life, Tony craves more. He decides the new taboo subject, replacing sex, is treating life as if it had meaning. Tony dreams of selfdiscovery, of "waylaying myself like a bandit...