Word: taboos
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...1990s, when he felt the urge to write a book about the dizzying changes taking place in his homeland, Qiu discovered that the detective novel provided the best framework for his ideas - and, not coincidentally, enabled him to write with a free hand about several issues still taboo in China...
...debate at the local high school. More absurd than this is the fact that Biden and Chris Dodd both show up. As the elderly moderator goes over the detailed, confusing rules about time limits--the breaking of which will result with loud beeps like a very unfun game of Taboo--the Senators stand quietly at their lecterns, having been rebuked for interrupting. Only 20% of the seats in the high school auditorium are filled, but the audience gets to witness the only political debate outside of China with 100% agreement on everything...
...with a majority of voters on such secondary issues as outlawing abortion and narrowing stem-cell research, Republicans have more recently managed to get themselves on the wrong side of popular trends on what were once old reliables: foreign policy, economics, energy, even health care. Iraq is still somewhat taboo in Republican debates, so fearful are the candidates that the situation in Baghdad might again deteriorate. Thanks to Katrina and several war-contracting scandals, the party has squandered its bragging rights on running a more efficient government. "We've lost, clearly, some of the moral high ground on the larger...
...Afterword to Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov wrote that one of the subjects taboo to American publishers was that of "the total atheist who lives a happy and useful life, and dies in his sleep at the age of 106." New Line, having invested something like $180 million in The Golden Compass, is similarly scared of its antireligious content. The company that boldly greenlighted Peter Jackson's $300 million Hobbit ambitions before a frame of the first movie was shot, and made billions from riding that risk, hasn't said yes to films two and three of the Pullman books - although...
...twist in the game, however, was that the subject words were taboo subjects themselves, in the context of resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...