Word: prudishly
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...grew from Hillary's marital woes might be called on account of Rudy's. But whatever Giuliani decides--and his announcement could come this week--it won't be the alleged extramarital liaisons that hurt him. It will be the way he has handled them. New York is not prudish; for the past two years, the press has actually shown some restraint in reporting on Giuliani's private life. Hanover chose not to appear at his side when he won re-election in 1997, and she didn't show up at a city hall event for two years...
...only real tragedies occur when these physical actions distract the audience from the dialogue, as is the case with Celimene's famous portrait scene. Distractions from her audience and an intoxicated Alceste tend to draw attention from Celimene's speeches. Celimene's subsequent confrontation with the prudish Arsinoe (Catherine Crow) stands in marked contrast, since the characters receive the audience's full attention during one of literature's great cat fights...
...secondary "hostile environment" policy, which allows employees to file lawsuits on nebulous grounds of psychological distress, is grotesquely totalitarian. It offends free-speech rights and is predicated on a reactionary female archetype: the prudish Victorian lady who faints at a sexual innuendo. This isn't feminism; it's Puritanism...
...Viola's true gender is revealed, freshly-out-of-the-closet Orson unhesitatingly declares his love for her--whoever s/he is--and Olivia seems only mildly ruffled by the discovery of the discrepancy between Sebastian-as-Charlie and Viola-as-Charlie. Overall, the interpretation in Your Own Thing seems prudish: it takes only plot from Twelfth Night and leaves behind the Shakespeare's finesse...
...because they had a certain tradition or tenure with the community? It can't be because the 'Poon is exceptionally funny. Additionally, if distaste is legitimate grounds for probation, why not expel the entire staff of the Demon, whose scatological and sexual humor must irk at least the most prudish amongst us; surely they would find it "socially unacceptable...