Word: verboten
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...going to record." Later he famously worked at Video Archives in Manhattan Beach, Cal., but that was only part, and not the crucial part, of his film education. "Everything I learned about writing I got from acting class." James Best, a longtime film and TV actor (Sam Fuller's Verboten!, Budd Boetticher's Ride Lonesome and Ray Kellogg's The Killer Shrews, to pick only from his work in 1959), taught a class called Camera Technique: how to act in movies. "He started teaching me the vocabulary of the camera." That was the beginning of Tarantino's rise to becoming...
There are, they allow, a few pitfalls. The most common is losing your job at a company in which "office-mating" is verboten. However, the authors say that relatively few companies have blanket bans (no pun intended) on interoffice relationships. The bigger problem is the possibility of a messy breakup. Here the authors get starry-eyed, advising couples to have a "prebreakup conversation" at the beginning of the relationship to strategize what they will do if things don't work out. That's easy advice from two women whose respective office romances ended...
...physical space. The firm's 39th- and 40th-floor offices offer sweeping views of San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate Bridge as well as of the interior hallways--the walls are glass. Two staircases connect the floors, and walking about is heavily encouraged. Branch offices and telecommuting are verboten...
...dreaded parietal rules kept Harvard boys and their prospective ’Cliffe dates well-separated during certain verboten hours. These regulations restricted the presence of the opposite sex in each college’s dorm, but fell particularly heavily on female students, who had to sign guests in and out of their dormitories...
...have troubles, to feel stress," says Ross Johnson, of the public relations firm Sitrick and Co. She may be the first to have her stress captured in this level of excruciating detail by a zoom lens, however. "Taking a picture of a star in rehab used to be verboten," says Johnson. "When I saw a photo of her at [Malibu, Calif. rehab facility] Promises, I was shocked. This is new territory...