Word: verboten
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other papers played it coy. CARTER FLEXES HIS WHIP ARM winked Boston's Herald American, which used the quote. In its headline, the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner used three dots instead of the verboten word, then spelled it out in the story. Said Managing Editor Mary Anne Dolan: "It seemed an intriguing way of handling it. Just like a woman being more alluring in lingerie than in the nude...
...residential college dining halls and the custodial service have been shut down since the strike began. The university is giving students $5.65 a day for meals, and although they may eat in the commons, most have avoided union picket lines there by cooking in their rooms--which is officially verboten--or eating...
...green and spacious community that would combine insular serenity, small-town security and Manhattan-on-the-rock sophistication. Its appeal is mostly to young families who might otherwise head for the suburbs. Cars are banned from its winding Main Street (though electric minibuses run around the clock). Dogs are verboten. Old trees have been spared, eyesores torn down, and landmark buildings preserved-including the oldest wooden farmhouse in New York County, an octagonal tower that drew Charles Dickens' admiration, a lighthouse and a Victorian chapel that has become a community center. An infamous old prison has long since been...
...talent with luck, and ultimately, most important of all, skill. I realize that the word skill outrages many modern actors. Some years ago, when I occasionally attended some of Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio lectures out of curiosity, I found that skill was a word that was absolutely verboten. Strasberg was saying very risky things that came to him from the sky. He fed very much on spontaneity. I think if you're lecturing young people on a craft or an art, it should be studied and carefully thought...
...mind for a long time, he says, as a result of the puritanical atmosphere he grew up in, in a Methodist orphanage in North Carolina where he and the other children "had religion pumped into every orifice of our little helpless bodies, and of course everything about sex was verboten, it was dirty, it was sinful, it was guilt-ridden...