Word: taboos
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...twelve years since that scene, divorce has become widespread, almost common. Last year U.S. divorces exceeded 1 million for the first time. It is thus interesting, but hardly surprising, that divorce is no longer a taboo and has virtually vanished as an issue in national politics. No one could care less whether Betty Ford was divorced from her first husband before she married Jerry (nor whether the President's former rival, Ronald Reagan, got a divorce and remarried). And without more than a momentary pause, Ford and his advisers put Robert Dole on the ticket even though...
...since 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. The Black Cauldron, still in the treatment-writing stages, is about a pig keeper's struggle with a villain whose shtick is regenerating an army of warriors from dead bodies-a long way from Poppins. Sex and excessive violence still are taboo on the Disney lot, but Walker foresees increased sophistication as younger animators reflect contemporary themes...
...Another new trend is toward the realistic documentation of World War II. Advance into the Pacific made use of combat footage shot by both American and Japanese cameramen. Hero in the Sky, a film about one of Japan's greatest wartime aces, may end up violating the postwar taboo on celebrating Japanese feats...
...Taboo or not taboo. That is the question...
...taboo currently under the heaviest assault is sadomasochism?sexual pleasure derived from dominating and inflicting pain on a partner or from being hurt. Porn-film makers long avoided "S-M," as it is known in the trade, because they were convinced that it would drive away customers. Now even that is changing. In X-rated movies and throughout the world of voyeur sex, sadomasochism is in. Two current hits, the soft-core Story of O and hard-core Story of Joanna...