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Logistics, though, is hardly the military's main concern. All press reports from the gulf must be passed by military censors, who look for taboo details such as troop locations or hints of future operations. Their ostensible aim is to protect the lives of American servicemen, a goal no journalist would decry. But complaints are growing about the arbitrary and dilatory way in which the censors are operating. When ABC News wanted to report that the pilot had been rescued from a downed F-14, military censors refused to allow the plane to be identified. Reason: the F-14 carries...
There are still taboo subjects, however: Martin has avoided writing about drugs, sex and child abuse. "I think these topics are a little heavy for younger readers," she explains. Some kids like it that way. Such topics "would ruin the books," says Kathy Ames, 14, a Wyckoff, N.J., ninth- grader and a devoted fan. But others aren't so sure. "If these girls were real, they'd probably already be offered drugs and have to deal with it," says Langlois. Sounds like a new assignment for the Baby-Sitters...
...fraternal twin to Sky in the Bertolucci canon is Last Tango in Paris, his taboo-trashing melodrama about a displaced American (Marlon Brando) who provokes a torrid, cloistered affair with a young Frenchwoman. But the new movie is not about sex -- or even, Bertolucci says, "the impossibility of love. It is about the impossibility of being happy within love. Kit and Port don't realize that the modern couple is an endangered species. Couples are so attacked by the outside world that they create a kind of fusion, a symbiosis. And that takes them, eventually, to a crisis. They look...
...achieving awareness and being educated about this issue, date/acquaintance rape and sexual assault will be less of a taboo topic, thus encouraging discussion and understanding. As a result the victims will be treated as they should and provided with all the facilities and support that they should have. Meg Watters
...Real estate is one of the most revealing features of the credit travails. It was the original taboo. Citibank existed from 1812 to 1960 without making real estate loans. There was this cultural resistance as well as regulatory and legal resistance to making real estate loans because when the depositors wanted their money it was not the time to rely on a piece of land...