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...danger! We'll preserve that omnipresent fear of being discovered: A security guard will still patrol the premises and wander onto every floor. But no one will get caught. The guard will make plenty of noise, giving the customers time to scurry away before she catches them in flagrante delicto...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $ome $imple $ugge$tion$ | 11/21/1991 | See Source »

...police discovered a closet filled with women's lingerie, monogrammed or labeled with the names of Taylor's conquests. One pink silk nightgown bore the letters M.M.M., for Mary Miles Minter, then 19 and Paramount's reigning blond. There were also stories of pornographic photos showing Taylor flagrante delicto with other stars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hollywood Gothic (1922-1986) a Cast of Killers | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

...counter and strokes Paulina's thigh while foraging for another customer's potatoes. Everybody in town knows about them: Paulina's neurotic bookkeeper (Elisabeth Trissenaar), the snoop-exhibitionist next door (Marie-Christine Barrault), even Paulina's seven-year-old son. He discovers them flagrante delicto in the storeroom; Mama eyes him solemnly, closes the door and returns to her pleasure. "Me, beautiful?" Paulina remarks to Stani. "But I could be your mother." And Stani replies: "My mother is beautiful too." This is a suicidal passion that condemns the lovers with every caress, but they are oblivious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Prima Donna of Passion | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Playing Boswell to the Bar | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Questing After An Unholy Grail | 3/7/1977 | See Source »

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