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3 unusual facts about taboo


Kevan Frost

He is recognized for his work with the musical Taboo; composing the musical score for the production alongside Boy George.

Taboo

For example, J. M. Powis Smith, in his "The American Bible" (editor's preface 1927), used "taboo" occasionally in relation to Israel's Tabernacle and ceremonial laws, including Exodus 30:36, 29:37; Numbers 16:37,38; Deuteronomy 22:9, Isaiah 65:5, Ezekiel 44:19 and 46:20.

Taboo: The Sixth Sense

The game uses the whole tarot deck, which consists of the Minor Arcana and Major Arcana, a total of 78 cards.


Belarus Free Theatre

The troupe's first production was 4.48 Psychosis, by the late British playwright Sarah Kane (1971–1999), which deals with "depression and suicide –– two themes that are taboo in state-controlled Belarusian art."

Chandan Ka Palna Resham Ki Dori

The show was inspired from the Hindi movie Chori Chori Chupke Chupke, and deals with the somewhat taboo subject of a childless couple and a surrogate mother.

Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest

Cyprus and Turkey, another participant, never voted for each other until 2003, a taboo attributed to the ongoing Cyprus dispute.

Dragaera

Mating outside of one's House is taboo among Dragaerans, and half-breeds are considered outcasts.

Five grains

Chametz (section The five grains), leavened or leavenable grains and their flours in Jewish cuisine which are taboo during certain festival periods in Jewish tradition; see also Matzo

Grassy Park

Neighboring Parkwood was featured in the National Geographic television series Taboo: Blood Bonds for its street gangs, particularly The Americans, Hard Living and Clever Kids.

Holocaust pornography

Thematically, Nazi exploitation genre can also be influenced by other so-called exploitative media, often called mondo films, which focus on gruesome death footage and other taboo subject matter, such as the Faces of Death series.

Intoxication defense

Alcohol and other drugs may affect the inhibitions that help to keep socialized individuals from breaking the prevailing social taboos which may or may not have been expressly criminalized.

Itzik Manger

In 1965, Dov Seltzer directed a highly popular production of Manger's Songs of the Megillah, breaking the Israeli taboo on Yiddish theatre.

Jiufen

In 1989, Hou Hsiao-hsien's A City of Sadness, the first film to touch on the 228 Incident, then a taboo subject in Taiwan, became a big hit in the theatres.

Kate Burridge

Burridge's work has mainly focused on Pennsylvania German-speaking communities in Canada, grammatical change in Germanic languages, the nature of euphemism and dysphemism, linguistic taboo, and on English grammatical structure in general.

Lee Erwin

He is probably best known for his Star Trek episode "Whom Gods Destroy", his two part Tarzan episode "The Deadly Silence", and his episode of The Lieutenant, "To Set It Right", which was never aired because the subject matter, racial prejudice, was taboo for entertainment television at the time.

Leftovers

Though leftover or partially eaten food (Ucchishta) is never offered to a Hindu deity, the goddess Matangi is prescribed to be offered this taboo oblation to gain her grace to achieve Supreme knowledge and supernatural powers.

Max Koffler

In 2005, Max Koffler recorded his first studio album "taboo" together with different musicians which was released in 2008 on trigger music, a sublabel of 313JWP (distributed by Sony BMG).

Mind rhyme

"Something You Can Do with Your Finger" from South Park uses enjambment to replace taboo words with non-taboo phrases with the same initial syllable.

Mudra Institute of Communications Ahmedabad

LitComm organizes literary events like quizzes, JAMs, debates and Taboo competitions throughout the year and are in charge of publishing the yearbook.

Off-color humor

In British humor, the genre of "sick jokes" is often used to shock by poking fun at taboo or as a reaction against political correctness.

Permanent employment

Large-scale layoffs remain legally restricted and socially taboo in Japan; many large companies such as Sony, Panasonic, NEC and Toshiba deal with excess labor capacity by offering voluntary retirement programs and by sending unnecessary workers to "chasing-out rooms" where they are held with minimal work responsibilities until they decide to resign.

Poor Old Lu

The band addressed hypocritical televangelists, drug addiction, sexual guilt, domestic unrest and spiritual rebelliousness in its lyrics, topics generally considered taboo in Christian music.

Property

Pauline Peters argued that property systems are not isolable from the social fabric, and notions of property may not be stated as such, but instead may be framed in negative terms: for example the taboo system among Polynesian peoples.

Racism in the Arab world

The Guardian's journalist Brian Whitaker wrote on the race taboo, an excerpt: Racism is a worldwide phenomenon.

Signa Vianen

The Moiwana case was one in a wide range of publications, if not regular news reports, in a time when reports about violations of basic human rights were still somewhat considered a taboo in this democratic country.

Sir George Trevelyan, 4th Baronet

The college was jointly sponsored by the local authority and the University of Birmingham, both of whom looked askance at Trevelyan's attraction towards the mystical; and so it took immense moral courage, for instance, for him to present a course on 'Death and Becoming', a subject that was in those days virtually taboo.

Structural anthropology

In this essay, Edmund Leach sought an explanation of why human societies have solemn or sacred occasions, such as the Christian celebration of Christmas, followed in a short time by their opposite: a taboo-breaking and "profane" celebration such as New Year's.

Tallensi

The resulting ambivalence between father and son, which is reminiscent of the effects of the Oedipus complex as articulated by Sigmund Freud, plays an important role in Tallensi rituals and taboos.

The Sweetest Taboo

"The Sweetest Taboo" is mentioned in the lyrics of Prince's 2005 charity single "S.S.T.", as well as in Mos Def's 1999 song "Ms. Fat Booty".

Tri-Valley Taboo

Despite their name, the Taboo is not based in the Tri-Valley of the San Francisco Bay Area, but rather in the North San Joaquin Valley area of the Central Valley region.

Yanhee Hospital

The hospital was also featured in an episode of National Geographic Channel's Taboo Series, in which a patient sought sex change surgery at Yanhee.


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