Word: taboos
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...Generation" to their recent "Daily Records," and witness the loss of depth in both power and vision wrought by the past 15 years. One problem, paradoxical for this piece, is that the vigilance of reviewers' scrutiny has made pure pop songs, like, say "Da Do Ron Ron" taboo. Groups forced into mixing internal broodings with commercial and critical success wilted, or suffered tragic deaths. American "Top 40" music has since deteriorated to formulaic, dreary soft-rock songs and mindless disco...
...meet the palace directive that they be reproduced only on substances of a permanent nature. Wedgwood's basalt bust of Charles fits the bill at $1,700. So does a $1,200 cannon adorned with H.R.H.'s coat of arms. But Charles and Di T shirts are taboo, to the consternation of British manufacturers and the 71 Members of Parliament who have protested that foreigners, unaffected by the ban, are sewing up the market...
...surprise about the Bush assignment. Said one aide: "Hell, if he was so concerned, why didn't he pick up the phone and call one of us and ask what's going on?" More important, they were angry that the Secretary had violated a Reagan taboo by making his grievance public. On the afternoon of his testimony, Haig was still brooding in his State Department office when he got a call from the President Reagan tried to reassure him, and told him that a statement would soon be issued. Haig was apparently convinced by the conversation that...
...fears the shadow of the country's militaristic past, and the government is quite sensitive to the lingering resentment among East Asian countries that were occupied by Japan in World War II. But, as one Japanese official puts it, "advocacy of a more active defense policy was virtually taboo a year or two ago. Now it is merely controversial. We have the Russians to thank for the change...
...village fairs and festivals, he shows up in a well-polished minibus to deliver his snake-oil monologue on the glories of contraception, organizing balloon-blowing ontests with condoms and teaching youngsters his hard-hitting song Too Many Children Make You Poor. Says he: I wanted to remove the taboo, take birth control out of the realm of the secretive and make...