Word: delicto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...format papers, are busy attending to the profession's voracious appetite for scandal, scuttlebutt and shoptalk. Unlike hundreds of established legal journals, newspapers and newsletters, which concern themselves chiefly with issues and trends in the law, the new papers emphasize lawyers per se, ad hominem and in flagrante delicto. Also how and where lawyers work, what they earn, what their jobs are like, who's hot. who's not. and who's about to be indicted...
Flagrante Delicto. Not any longer. Lancelot changes overnight from a catatonic lush into a quixotic detective. Proving Margot's waywardness is the least of his worries; her suspected lover is the director of a Hollywood film crew currently making a movie at Lancelot's picturesque mansion. With unlimited funds and the help of a black M.I.T. student who is an electronics wizard, Lancelot has no trouble assembling incriminating video tapes. But he wants more than to film Margot flagrante delicto. Lancelot is on the trail of evil and an affirmation that it still has meaning. Says...
...Lady Chatterley's Lover; in Spotorno, Italy. Ravagli made the claim, supported by at least one biographer, that Lawrence's wife Frieda could not resist his graceful good looks and finally yielded to him while the Lawrences vacationed in Spotorno-at which point Lawrence discovered them flagrante delicto. Lawrence took literary revenge by writing Lady Chatterley. In 1930, after Lawrence succumbed to tuberculosis, Ravagli wrote to Frieda: "I am waiting for you." She came. Ravagli abandoned his wife and three children for Frieda and lived with her for nearly 20 years before they were married in 1950. When...
...Figaro, La Croix and other defenders of Daniélou sharply challenged Canard's suggestion that Daniélou had died in flagrante delicto. The French episcopacy denounced the "grave insinuations" concerning the cardinal's death, insisting that "his apostolate extended to the most diverse realms, often to the most disreputable and downtrodden persons both inside and outside the church...
...MARTIAL LAW: Actually, we have removed it. Now the authority to issue decrees, the power to issue orders with the effect of law, is the only power that exists. It could be considered a carry-over from martial law. We no longer arrest people except in cases of flagrante delicto, caught right in the act of committing a crime. We have not openly admitted this because it would weaken our situation in areas where there is fighting. Where there is fighting, we arrest suspects without any evidence against them in accordance with the rules of national security...