Word: uptightness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...expand to 20 spaces in Boston and one in Harvard square by next year. “People are enjoying themselves, which is the bottom line,” said Livable Streets Board Member Nina Garfinkle. “Instead of driving miserably on big wide streets and being uptight all the time, some people had a chance to lighten up a little bit and enjoy.” —Staff writer Natasha S. Whitney can be reached at nwhitney@fas.harvard.edu...
...once had. Hollywood movies, seeking blockbuster audiences, are shying away from the restrictive R rating (not to mention the dreaded NC-17) and stressing feel-good family entertainment. Everyone is watching his or her words; language has grown cumbersome, self-conscious and freighted with symbolic baggage. In such an uptight climate, cultural renegades are doing what they have always done: trying to shock, offend, liberate. Stern's gross-out radio act, like his book, is all about saying the unsayable -- at least, within the limits of what the FCC will allow a station to broadcast and still keep its license...
...1960s cultural battlefield. Once a popular, short-haired comedian who did parodies of commercials and fast-talking DJs, Carlin saw the counterculture revolution and decided he was talking to the wrong audience. So he grew long hair and a beard and began doing routines about drugs and Vietnam and uptight middle-class values...
...grew long hair and a beard and began doing different kinds of material - about drugs and Vietnam and America's uptight attitude toward language and sex. Fans of the old George Carlin weren't ready for it. Carlin got thrown out of Las Vegas twice for material that today would seem tame (one offending routine was about his own "skinny ass"). At the Playboy Club in Lake Geneva, Wis., he so riled up a conservative crowd with his jokes about Vietnam that he nearly caused an audience riot. Even Johnny Carson banned him as a Tonight Show guest...
...that relaxation could also be economically driven, because the government has expressly said that it wants to increase the GDP from the media sector by a certain percentage, and part of that is that they need to be seen as allowing freedom and creativity. TAN: Yeah, Singapore is quite uptight in some senses. But I think the government is realizing that. Education has a lot to do with that as well - the kids of this generation are so in touch with everything. With the Internet and all that, it's so easy for them to get information at their fingertips...