Overnight, many
of the cultural taboos associated with overt commercial profiteering on campus began to evaporate.
It's a bit
of a cultural taboo to take food out of your mouth in Japan, so these sticks of pineapple - flavored «gum» are actually taffy made to look and chew like gum.
Not exact matches
Just goes to show how much
of Church
taboos are in fact
cultural rather than «scriptural» in nature.
I would settle with doing away with the
cultural taboo against discussing the likelihood
of God being real.
Post-modern radicalism postulates that the individual, in order to exercise his right to choose, must be able to free himself from all normative frameworks — whether they be semantic (clear definitions), ontological (being, the given), political (sovereignty
of the state), moral (transcendent norms), social (
taboos, what is forbidden),
cultural (traditions) or religious (dogma, doctrine
of the Church).
«The
taboo of discussing «strange»
cultural and the — now more than ever — different world
of dietary issues, both personal and medicinal, is addressed in a casual, fun and inspiring story involving two friends.
The bright spots shared several characteristics, including high levels
of local engagement in resource management, high dependence on local marine resources, and protective
cultural taboos — such as excluding fishers from outside the local village.
Nevertheless, the work remains an outstanding model
of scientific bravery in the 20th century, with its insistence that sexual acts be described as healthy functions
of the human body and that
cultural taboos not stand in the way
of science.
For many
of us there can be numerous social and
cultural taboos associated with this area and a degree
of embarrassment when talking about it.
Self massage
of the breast is very important as well and many women are afraid to touch their breasts because it is a
cultural taboo.
Surveys conducted years ago show a drastic increase in the number
of interracial relationships or marriages, thanks to the constantly changing
cultural taboo.
Surveys conducted in the past years show a drastic increase in the number
of interracial marriages or relationships, thanks to the changing
cultural taboo.
Kicking off our guide to the season's
cultural highlights, we head to the cinema for the return
of Blade Runner, a tale
of taboo sex and Armando Iannucci's stunning Stalin satire.
It's interesting to think about Philadelphia, dated and slightly stereotypical as it is, as a product
of its time and an effort to broach a
taboo subject in light
of today's
cultural movement in Hollywood for diversity in storytelling.
The insanity
of the plot, the
cultural taboos at its center and the daring opacity
of its prologue (another tool revisited in
From the celebrated film Juno to a pregnancy boom at Gloucester High School, in Gloucester, Massachusetts (where 17 girls confessed to making a pact to become pregnant together), plus the high - profile pregnancies
of 16 - year - old actress Jamie Lynn Spears and 17 - year - old Bristol Palin, daughter
of Alaska governor Sarah Palin, a more accepting attitude seems to be replacing an old
taboo, and students are not immune to the
cultural shift.
His performances» raw intensity often included the graphic acting out
of taboo ideas and behaviors, acting out against the imposition
of cultural norms by television programming, Disney.
They act as remainders from architectural projects lost and reminders
of popular
cultural taboos.
Inverting the vegetarian premise
of this edition
of Food Art Week, MOMENTUM uses the occasion
of our partnership to engage with five artists from the MOMENTUM Collection and our Artist Residency Program (MOMENTUM AiR) who work with meat as an artistic medium, and as an effective commentary upon
cultural practices and
taboos.
I explore issues
of violence, social
taboos, political conflicts and human behaviors by deconstructing iconic
cultural imagery as a form
of critique and analysis.
The exhibition will address his «prodigious and penetrating contribution in the
taboo subject
of sexuality, portrayals thereof, and its indissociable link to the boundless promise conveyed by the
cultural, material and economic bounty
of post-war American society.»
From
cultural taboos to symbols
of power, tattoos, piercings and other forms
of body modification have played significantly different roles within different societies for thousands
of years.
Following on from French President Emmanuel Macron's promise last year to return African
cultural heritage, the president
of the ethnographic Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac in Paris, Stéphane Martin, has signalled that the institution is open to the idea, telling The Art Newspaper that «if together, and possibly with international co-operation with other Western partners, we can build one, two or three safe museums in Africa, I would not even consider transfers
of ownership as
taboo».
Despite a
cultural taboo, Namdakov has addressed the subject
of Genghis Khan, sculpting the great Mongolian leader in bronze (2003, 2011) and acting as art director in the film Mongol (2007), for which he received Russia's Nika Award for Best Art Direction.
This Dionysian work
of kinetic theatre, described by the artist as a «celebration
of flesh as material», explored the way social dynamics change when
cultural taboos and restrictions are lifted.
This alleged «
cultural evolution» encourages the artist to deconstruct and build artifacts in which he mixes — without
taboos — the trivial, decorative and well - measured paraphernalia
of luxury culture with elements from the suburban culture: snake skins, leopard patterns, gold and fake carbon fibers that aspire to shine in an asphaltic grey.
It is dedicated to today's
cultural avant - garde: art that defines itself unconstrainedly through the breaks in life — even by breaking
taboos — in the tradition
of Jewish collectors, who have always promoted the latest trends in art.
Since then, she has explored a range
of cultural and political
taboos.
Margaret Harrison tackles gender politics through the use
of iconic characters such as Captain America and Playboy pinups, Meriem Bennani's animations explore Muslim
cultural taboos, and Jamian Juliano - Villani's surreal paintings distort familiar images from pop culture and comics.
The real issue and
taboo is what
cultural do all
of these groups have in common that create such a willful blindness that existed in the AGW movement and reaction?
«This report notes
cultural taboos surround this issue in some countries, preventing progress,» says Zafar Adeel, Director
of UNU - INWEH.
This week, Publishers Weekly described the book as «an astonishingly forthright work by a Canadian lawyer [that] traces her painful personal journey through chronic loneliness in light
of social
taboos and changing
cultural and medical notions.»
Alice Ray, co-founder and CEO
of Ripple Effects, maintains that «there are so many familial and social pressures on kids, we want to give them a way to get supports for those needs without having to break
cultural taboos.»