Word: taboos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what their husbands were doing, but they did know that there was no school in Los Alamos for their kids. So they hired themselves as teachers and started a one-room school in a log cabin left over from the old Ranch School. Because the name Los Alamos was taboo, they called it the "One-Armed School" (after the one-armed chairs in which the children...
...really good movies, like really good literature, are never so "literary" as this or so full of highly polished posturings. Director Lewin also sets himself the impossible task of trying to clean up a naughty story for the family trade. Because adultery is taboo to Hollywood's censors, Angela Lansbury is represented as a widow and Mr. Sanders does not take up with Miss Dvorak until she is a widow too. An old gentleman who was unmistakably Miss Dvorak's lover in the book is presented in film as a dear old friend of the family. A part...
...chore boy, Nath Storm (Lon McCallister), learns from his wooden-legged employer (Edward G. Robinson) that the deserted Red House near the farm is strictly taboo. So are the deep woods that surround it. No reasons are given, beyond Farmer Robinson's obvious terror. Nath and the farmer's adopted child (Allene Roberts), thus forbidden, cannot resist trying to find out what it's all about. They are variously hindered by Nath's lush sweetheart (Julie London) and her sinister spare-time boy friend (Rory Calhoun). Their quest for the core of the farmer...
...opera: "They are just the same as they were when grandma was a girl, and American composers are strictly taboo...
...only one taboo left-homosexuality-and he's playing with the idea of dropping that. He claims that "name" writers don't mean a thing to him ("I don't give a damn who writes a story"), disclaims any special knowledge of female psychology except what he absorbs through his pores. "But why should they prefer boy-meets-girl-on-bus stories when they know damn well they didn't meet their own husbands that...