Word: taboos
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...When Lerner in the York Post. " 'When Kennedy ran in 1960,' he said, 'everyone was discussing Kennedy as a Catholic: there was a big to-do about it. Why doesn't anyone today write about Goldwater as a Jew? Is the Jewish theme more taboo in politics than the Catholic theme?' " To Lerner, who is a Jew himself, the question insisted upon an answer, and he was quick to supply...
...nobody trades with Wiltshire. His "wife," it turns out, is taboo. Case, the other trader, has craftily skewered him -and there follows an adventuresome confrontation of good and evil as Wiltshire struggles for his existence against this betel-nut Belial who once went to Oxford and who now wears sharks' teeth around his neck and spooks the entire island with his weird, wicked acts and weirder metaphysics. "The ghosts of beautiful women," he says, "fly backwards so that you cannot see the worm marks on their faces...
Quills & Snuffers. This may explain his recurrent preoccupation with food. One of his routines is premised on the axiom that people need taboo subjects. In the Faroe Islands, for example, where lovemaking is as casual as conversation, sleazy natives sidle up to strangers on street corners and try to sell them pictures of food. A piece of corned beef with just a little fat on it is considered very provocative. A girl is asked if she would like a little cream cheese with her bagels and she says: "I don't do that sort of thing...
...longer are required to show galley proofs to the censors before going to press. One weekly is actually serialising the memoirs of Dolores Ibarruri, the fabled La Pasionaria of Civil War days, who is queen bee of Spain's exiled Communist Party; her very name until recently was taboo in the Spanish press...
Many a stereo bug could recognize the sounds immediately-and name the man who was making them. At 29, Arthur Lyman and his group of Hawaiian musicians are staples of the pop-record market. One album alone, titled Taboo, has sold close to 2,000,000 copies, and Lyman fans buy each new effort (Yellow Bird, Hawaiian Sunset, Taboo Vol. 2) with the enthusiasm of rare-stamp collectors. Back home in Hawaii, Lyman's mistily exotic mood music has been copied with varying success by a dozen groups. It draws tourists by the gross to the Shell...