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...country where married couples don’t go out arm in arm…the idea that a husband and wife should embrace and dance in front of others is beyond embarrassing.” Chelsom never explains what makes ballroom dance equally taboo in 21st century Chicago. He tries to plug this plot hole subliminally instead by making Miss Mitzi’s look a lot like a brothel, but it’s hard to salvage a bungled plot with neon lighting and sweaty-palmed patrons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Headline | 11/12/2004 | See Source »

Rather, it’s the word itself, its forbidden nature, its taboo. I remember when it first struck me. The year was 1995 and I was 12 years old, driving in the backseat of my mother’s car. She was listening to her usual adult alternative contemporary station and a song from a new, young Canadian songstress came on. I grew 10 years listening to those lyrics that somehow passed unedited into my ears. There was mention of some broken relationship, some new person, some mysterious mention of a “cross-eyed bear...

Author: By Christopher A. Kukstis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Confessions of a Feminine Cursing Fetishist | 11/5/2004 | See Source »

...country where married couples don’t go out arm in arm…the idea that a husband and wife should embrace and dance in front of others is beyond embarrassing.” Chelsom never explains what makes ballroom dance equally taboo in 21st-century Chicago. He tries to plug this plot hole subliminally instead by making Miss Mitzi’s look a lot like a brothel, but it’s hard to salvage a bungled plot with neon lighting and sweaty-palmed patrons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happening | 11/5/2004 | See Source »

...country where married couples don’t go out arm in arm…the idea that a husband and wife should embrace and dance in front of others is beyond embarrassing.” Chelsom never explains what makes ballroom dance equally taboo in 21st-century Chicago. He tries to plug this plot hole subliminally instead by making Miss Mitzi’s look a lot like a brothel. Nevertheless, it’s hard to salvage a bungled plot with neon lighting and sweaty-palmed patrons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happening | 10/29/2004 | See Source »

...first munch Mark attended, he met no one his age, or even close to his age. “When you start out, you always wonder if this is right, because it’s dark, forbidden and thus kind of a taboo,” he says...

Author: By Kevin J. Feeney, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sadomasochism Comes Out of the Closet | 10/28/2004 | See Source »

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