Word: taboos
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...hollows, bosses and knots and smooth rotundities of the bodily landscape were generalized down to patches. By the start of Pearlstein's career, in the ebb tide of abstract expressionism, the very idea of rendering the posed body in a room seemed absurd; it required the most taboo act known to late modernism, making a spatial illusion, turning the flat plane into a window...
...ceiling on military spending will Japan meet its objectives. Nakasone had hinted that he might try to do so, but he now says he will stay within that limit. "I have no intention of removing the ceiling," he told TIME. Nonetheless, he has abolished a longstanding taboo against exchanging military technology with the U.S. Troops from the two countries held joint exercises for the first time earlier this year at Mount Fuji...
...been charged with organizing a demonstration in Moscow's Pushkin Square. Kaminskaya boldly pleaded for acquittal, partly on the ground that Bukovsky had the right to demonstrate under the Soviet constitution. The legal community was shocked that she had invoked the constitution-a tactic that is taboo in political cases. In practice, the basic civil rights guaranteed by the constitution have proved to be mere window dressing in a totalitarian society...
Outrage it he did, to the point of being regarded by some as a kind of Southern gothic erotomaniac. Williams dealt in taboos, yet the taboo is often the touchstone of drama: in the profoundest Greek play, a man murders his father and marries his mother. Williams mesmerized as well as outraged playgoers with Orpheus Descending (murder by blowtorch), A Streetcar Named Desire (rape, nymphomania), Summer and Smoke (frigidity), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (impotence, alcoholism, homosexuality) Sweet Bird of Youth (drug addiction, castration), Suddenly Last Summer (homosexuality, cannibalism), and The Night of the Iguana (masturbation, fetishism, coprophagy...
...Moscow officials, makes plain that editors in the U.S.S.R. will translate all articles and occasionally will include entirely new pieces by Soviet authors. More pointedly, notes Chief Editor Sergei Kapitsa, "we have the right, in consultation with the American editors, to remove any article of a given issue." Among taboo subjects: social and economic sciences and defense matters. The Soviet issue also excludes consumer advertising. The translation does, however, retain the original's colorful charts and photographs, thereby making it, at a hefty price by Moscow standards of two rubles (about $2.80), one of the handsomest magazines...