Word: verboten
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Internet Explorer, the company quickly found that the "solution" could keep large numbers of viewers away from its news site, MSNBC. Microsoft quietly removed the rating. The problem should have been foreseen. News, after all, frequently covers violent, adult-oriented subjects, which puts many news stories into the same verboten range as porn. While RSACI officials have proposed offering a news exemption, it's hard to see how that could work. Readers of the sex-oriented newspaper Screw, for instance, might well consider it just as newsworthy as the New York Times...
...Language Villages, where authenticity is a watchword. When 5,200 children (ages 7 to 18) "cross the border" into their respective villages for one to four weeks, they will be issued passports and exchange U.S. dollars for the appropriate foreign currency. Newcomers will be advised that speaking English is verboten. Speaking German, French, Spanish, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Russian, Chinese or Japanese is de rigueur...
...could imagine," says Wang. "People would send these things just so they could say, 'But I copied you on that.'" Now companies such as SmithKline Beecham are tightening the spigot by encouraging employees to limit the number of CCs they send. At Ernst & Young, systemwide messages (to everyone) are verboten...
...this sort of elegiac kids' film, sex is verboten--except in the relationship of the boy and his dolphin, silhouetted like lovers against the setting sun. Sandy has one underwater swimming-and-petting scene with Flipper that may be the most sensuous movie aquacade since Brooke Shields and Chris Atkins went skinny-dipping in The Blue Lagoon. Yet for all the cornography, Flipper has its tugs and charms. This modest movie is about not much more than teaching kids to care for animals and, occasionally, for grownups...
...insist that these trips were not related to the merger or to one another, pointing out that such on-location episodes usually do well in the ratings. Of course, they're not bad for company image either (Disney World has script approval of all programs shot there; among the verboten scenes are any that reveal human beings inside those Mickey and Goofy costumes...