Word: verboten
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...entering the gate areas. The obsession, early on, with even the most innocent of personal items has been relaxed somewhat. A sign near the ticket counters in Denver informs flyers that nail clippers, tweezers and syringes-with proof of medical need-are now allowed after inspection. Yet plenty of verboten items-knives, screwdrivers, scissors-are still being confiscated. Since these items are not saved or returned to passengers, flyers in Denver started burying them in planters near the entrance to Concourse A, intending to pick them up after their return flight. The planters got so full that the airport...
...asking that a collection plate be passed around, and it is verboten in the White House to grumble in even a minor way. The responses are typical. "This is no different than what they went through in World War II," says spokesman Scott McLellan, one of the early joiners in the campaign effort. There are plenty of references to the men and women on the front lines overseas as well and the danger they face. But in a less public way, veterans concede that they're awfully tired. You won't get anyone to talk about it, but you also...
...loads of mostly light fare to entertain a nation struggling to pull itself out of poverty. But strongman Park Chung Hee snuffed it out a decade later with tight censorship and draconian controls on production houses. Films were vapid and forgettable: even mild criticism of the government was verboten. So was anything racy: viewers didn't catch even the silhouette of a breast until 1985. "Everything was forbidden," recalls director Im Kwon Taek, who, with more than 100 movies under his belt, is considered the grand old man of Korean cinema. (His lush reworking of Chunhyang, Korea's most famous...
...banned news stories critical of his government and stationed intelligence agents in newsrooms. His successor Chun Doo Hwan forced media outlets to fire journalists he didn't like. Speaking out against the government in those days could get you arrested or beaten up. Today, censorship and physical intimidation are verboten, but heavy-handed habits die hard. The presidential Blue House still pressures editors to change copy, sometimes successfully. Says Kim Young Bae, who has just finished a stint as editorial page chief at the JoongAng Daily: "Any time we write anything critical of the President or government policy...
...course. This year the Court ruled 6-3 that drug testing pregnant women without their consent and forwarding the results to law enforcement authorities was an unconstitutional search (Ferguson v. City of Charleston) and, in another 6-3 decision, that police roadblocks using drug-sniffing dogs were also verboten. On the other hand, the justices found, 5-4, that it was not an unconstitutional seizure to arrest someone, handcuff her and ship her off to jail for driving without a seat belt when the maximum penalty for the offense was a $50 fine (Atwater v. City of Lago Vista...