Word: taboos
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...Saudi royal family (a clan with 7,000 princes) actively cultivate ties with radical groups to gain political support in their own country, according to a former senior White House aide. Yet in Washington mere mention of a Riyadh connection with the war on terrorism remains a weird taboo. The Administration forced the joint panel to black out 28 straight pages of testimony about Saudi financial support for terrorists...
Fairfield’s production uses an alternate version of the play, in which Betty’s monologue on masturbation, taboo and her slow self-discovery ends the production. The choice is well-justified if not simply for the bittersweet and exquisitely rendered moment from Weiss, which in a night of phenomenal performances, is delivered with so much humor, earnestness and humanity that it still shocks us with its simple, deeply genuine feeling...
...Dershowitz put definitional quibbles aside to look at the specifics of Rose’s case, coaxing his witnesses to go beyond numerous avowals of gambling as baseball’s ultimate taboo. He supplemented such philosophical arguments with a repeated reliance on the findings of the Dowd Report—a voluminous 1989 work documenting in great detail the results of an official Major League Baseball investigation into Rose’s gambling...
...Turn the radio dial a bit, and political discourse gives way to rants on straying husbands or disobedient teenagers. Social issues may not have the gravitas of incipient revolution, but talk radio addresses far more than a political need. Traditional Asian culture is chock-full of taboo subjects: sex, religion, sex, suicide and sex. Talk radio allows the shy and curious alike to discuss issues they would never dare broach even with their closest friends. Ye Sha hosts a late-night radio show in Shanghai, a city where the neon present collides with Confucian tradition. These days, many...
...Which makes Barbara Wong's new coming-of-age comedy, Truth or Dare, a bit unusual. Wong is best known for her taboo-teasing 2001 documentary Women's Private Parts, in which Hong Kong women explored their deepest, darkest sexual desires. In Truth or Dare she brings similar realism and sympathy to the tale of a coed group of six twentysomething Hong Kong roommates. They are caricatures who nonetheless ring true: the wild girl (Candy Lo), the dreamy girl (the dreamy Karena Lam), the dork (Roy Chow) who loves the dreamy girl. Too broke to go out, they stay...