Word: tabooed
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...knew whether it would get uglier. Arafat has threatened to declare unilaterally a Palestinian state if no accord is reached by Sept. 13, but so far Israeli and Palestinian streets have been calm. Though the summit collapsed, it did force the two sides to negotiate on once taboo subjects, such as who owns the holy city. Says Palestinian spokeswoman Hanan Mikhail-Ashrawi: "Files are now open that were hitherto closed." But it will take more courage still for peace...
...group in between. Everyone has a different reason for coming here. "There is more finesse, a bit more je ne sais quoi, to French naturism," a well-tanned Austrian in his 60s tells me as he prepares for another day on the sandy "nudism obligatory" beach, where cameras are taboo and coconut-scented suntan oil seems to be the millennium rage...
...Tony: Yeah, Hollywood hasn't ever gotten over its taboo about black sexuality. This Shaft was a boy scout compared with his uncle. It was like the role was written for Denzel Washington, who always gets these parts where he saves the girl but there?s no sexual tension - especially when she's white...
...political correctness in the press that dictates that white people don't say anything bad about people of color," says Lapchick, arguing that newspaper sports sections and nightly news sports segments offer the media a release valve for reporting the types of racially charged stories that have become taboo. "In the first 80 pages of a newspaper, writers feel they can't report anything that reflects badly on minorities. So on our sports pages we're regularly reading about athletes who commit violence against women, but the stories don't mention that over 8,000 such acts occur across...
...Sprewell shows the racial subtext of the league," says Shields. "His hair forces conversation about a taboo subject. The librarian-like glasses [which he often wears postgame] press you to consider him a mental as well as a physical being. His nonchalance and distance force talk about how black men are 'supposed' to act. Sprewell is sophisticated and transgressive. He pushes the envelope...