Word: verboten
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hold the “praise be.” Although the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has dropped its blanket ban, conscientious travelers ought to be careful, lest they aid the terrorists. Stay away from those dangerous regular bottles of shampoo, toothpaste, and suntan lotion; these items are still verboten. And remember to avoid containers bigger than three ounces, plastic bags larger than a quart, and all bags without...
...president of the Pudding, “and the circus is down on its luck and looking to fight off the onslaught of the advancing freak show.” In the midst of this rivalry, one of the circus’s star acrobats develops a verboten love for one of the freaks, a failed Japanese Samurai-cum-sword-swallower fittingly named Ai Swallows. “The Ancient Tent Commandments forbid any mixing of the big-tops and freaks,” said Warland L. “Trey” Kollmer...
...film to be seen as he envisioned it. The businessman, who's taken millions to make the picture, also needs to satisfy his investors that the product will go into the widest market. A R-rated movie can play in any U.S. movie house; an NC-17 is verboten to many large theater chains and video stores, and will have trouble being advertised in newspapers...
...Back when Frank made that documentary, one word in its title (not Blues) was verboten in the American media. But at least it was allowed to be shown, sporadically. Jack Smith had worse luck. In 1964, the year Lenny Bruce was convicted of obscenity after a New York stage appearance, Smith?s pansexual phantasmagoria Flaming Creatures was busted by the NYPD. It was eventually banned in 22 states and four countries; as late as 1968, Lyndon Johnson?s Attorney General was impounding prints of the movie...
...only ones facing restrictions at the hands of the NCAA. Bizarrely enough, coaches are not allowed to give prospective athletic recruits any information in folders with pockets. The Bob Slate staple is deemed to have “tangible value,” and is therefore verboten, according to Fry. He adds that any e-mails coaches send to students may not include animation, audio, or visual clips, though color attachments are allowed. Sound strange? Fry agrees. “Chances are, you can turn to any page in the [NCAA] manual and find something that doesn?...