Word: tabu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fear of trichinosis but simple tabu was responsible for ancient Jewish laws against eating pork. Reason behind the tabu, say modern anthropologists, was that nomadic Jewish tribes could not keep swine, which are "sedentary" animals...
...late, great Nikolai Lenin plastered all Russia with Karl Marx's slogan, "Religion is opium for the people," but Dictator Lenin's household celebrated with a tree every year, Bolshevism or no Bolshevism. Only under Dictator Stalin were Christmas trees in Russia made socially tabu. Last week the lid was off. Savants of Bolshevism gamboled at the Lenin Institute, where the features of their Grandfather Frost were those of Bolshevism's great pioneer in blazing new Arctic routes, Professor Otto Schmidt (TIME...
Best photography Floyd Crosby (Tabu...
Ready for insertion whenever the program needed them were first-rate Albertina Rasch numbers; the Britton & Gang orchestra which smashes peanut brittle violins with acrobatic abandon; dusky, soft-hipped little Reri from Tahiti, native star of the film Tabu; Miss Universe and the next two prizewinners fresh from Galveston's beauty contest; mincing Albert Carroll (without makeup) and his impersonations. Better than any of these, the gangling 17-year-old named Hal LeRoy is a new loose-leg hoofer with the appeal of a playful, intelligent puppydog. The show was his whenever he danced...
CITY LIGHTS-Charlie Chaplin proves that becoming a genius has not spoiled his lability to eat spaghetti, clean streets, have wet pants, etc. etc. TABU-Fred Murnau's ideas about photographic story telling make this the best of the South Sea Island pictures-about a pearl diver and his girl. THE FRONT PAGE-Continuous crisis in a criminal courts press room, brilliantly written and acted...