Word: taboos
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...director for Gaper's Caterers in Chicago. Notes S. Alexander, catering director of New York City's Plaza hotel: "We had a very elegant wedding in June, where cost was no consideration, and we served a poultry item as the main course. In the past this would have been taboo at a black-tie dinner...
Formality is taboo. The president is not Dr. Goldberger but "Murph" to faculty and students alike. Professors lecture in jeans and open-collared shirts, shorts and sandals. They encourage questions and expect challenges. Gray has been known to wear a horse's head while lecturing. Feynman, who played a bongo-banging tribal chieftain in a student production of South Pacific, mixes serious physics with stand-up comedy. And Murph marked the centennial of Einstein's birth by donning pith helmet and chaps and riding an elephant across campus...
...recently been depicted as something of a royal layabout, has actually been making clandestine visits to the homeless of London and seeking advice on how to remedy inner-city decay. Critics of the government applauded, while Conservatives gave indignant speeches protesting what they saw as a breach of the taboo against royalty dabbling in politics...
...example, shows a man clad in little but shaving cream, his eyes closed, one arm tightly embracing a scantily clad woman as she wields the razor. The object being promoted: Swatch watches, a trendy Swiss brand. Sure enough, on second look, each is wearing two of them. The broken taboo: seduction in the bathroom...
Coping with the bewildering succession of Chinese shifts and reversals has provided some light moments for Peking Reporter Jaime FlorCruz, a Filipino who has lived in China since 1971. Take dancing: "When I arrived," he says, "social dancing was taboo. Then in 1978-79, it was pronounced 'healthy,' and I found myself waltzing with Chinese women. After that, disco became the craze, and I was often urged to demonstrate it, until last year when it was banned as 'spiritual pollution.' Now it is In again, but not all the time in all places. Rules here, it seems, are made...