Word: taboos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...name Jesse Jackson is taboo with her. If anyone ever tries to tell you that all Black people like Jesse Jackson, just tell them to visit my home, Camp Conservative. In the same manner as her father, this woman believes that the Rev. Jackson is a "hypocrite" and an "opportunist...
...common is that they are renowned for using patronage and corruption to put themselves beyond the reach of the law. By tackling such formidable figures head on, Salinas has given notice that he is willing to uproot the status quo to enforce his policies. "There is not a single taboo that remains in place," says Luis Rubio, head of the Mexico City-based Research Center for Development. "Nothing is unthinkable in Mexico anymore...
While ignorance still reigns, little remains that is actually taboo except male homosexuality. Those accused of the practice face three years in prison for a first offense. The handful who test positive for the AIDS virus and then have sex can get eight years...
...School No. 32 in Moscow, was teaching Russian literature to a class of 13-year-olds when a boy shot his hand into the air and asked about man's need for religion. Boyko, a 32-year veteran of the classroom, was understandably startled: religion has long been taboo in Soviet schools. But instead of avoiding the issue, she led her students through a 30- minute debate on the universal search for faith. "Before school reform, parents would have come to me, frightened that religion had even come up," Boyko said. "Now no one is surprised...
...networks in daytime viewership, can find the audience in the first place. The constituency keeps shrinking: the valued 18-plus female viewers are going out to jobs; advertising revenues are sluggish. Fighting back, the serials are dealing more and more with issues that were once controversial or plainly taboo: homosexuality, AIDS, child abuse, alcoholism, battered wives...