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Language taboos seem to be persistent in American English--more so than in British English, where, although one cannot say that anything goes, one encounters more dirty language on television (in particular), especially after the so-called “watershed” hour of nine o'clock (which some are trying to put off till ten o'clock).
The square (also called by its former name Terreiro do Paço), wholly wiped out by the great earthquake of 1755, has seen its share of watershed political events: King Carlos and his son were felled by an assassin’s bullets there in 1908, and it was the site of one of the first uprisings of the Carnation Revolution of 1974.
[ Update, 8/4/99 : After much pestering online and by phone, Chatterbox has finally gotten The Atlantic to post on its Web site Jim Mann's watershed Deep Throat piece.
The FT said Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's ruling might "mark a watershed in the company's history--the point at which Microsoft's effective monopoly of personal computer operating systems moves firmly into the ambit of the law."
The WTO protests are undoubtedly an important, perhaps even watershed, event, but the LAT overshoots when it states: "Not since the days of the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement has the entire downtown core of a major American city been seized by a popular political uprising."