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Was it just sheer embarrassment and fear, or a taboo that only fed itself through its own repression, something at which the Catholic Church and Christian fundamentalism are expert?

Anything green is hidden dragon, desires and repression... something weird when you dig into the depth.

Wendy Shalit, whose book, "A Return to Modesty," embodies what has been termed "the new chastity," also says she believes that girls are being manipulated, but by a society that tries to convince them that they should act like boys, turning sexual modesty into a sign of weakness or repression -- something young women are taught to be embarrassed about.

How exactly Guevara personally dealt with the worst period of repression was something he never made public, but in the eighties he spent a significant amount of time abroad, based in Paris; in 1983, while serving as Cuba's ambassador to UNESCO, he was awarded France's highest honor, the National Order of the Legion of Honor, by the Mitterand government, for his services to culture.

Repression wasn't something to throw off, but a part of the human condition.

AL SHARPTON On Iran I think that one of the problems that we see in Iran in terms of the movement toward open elections, toward clear repression there, is something that we must be concerned about.

What begins as an allegory of imprisonment and state repression mutates into something more Pirandellian when Panahi himself appears, directing the action and seemingly losing faith in his characters.

But the pendulum is now swinging back toward repression of Baathists, something being discussed over tea in places like Mr. Abu Risha's tent, pitched in the courtyard of his fortresslike compound.

A young actor can embody idealism easily enough (James Spader, say, in sex, lies and videotape, Stephen Soderbergh's 1989 drama of fetishism and repression) but integrity is something that needs to have been tested over time, if not actually by time.

The night's official theme is "Obsession and Repression," problems that Hitchcock knew something about.

He's very good at depicting a particular kind of psychological repression which builds slowly into something genuinely frightening.