Word: illicit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Claiming that America consumes as much moonshine as legal liquer, he blamed the "antiquated" and "exorbitant" federal tax laws for the increase in illicit distilling...
Harris, however, called "ridiculous" the assertion that half of all liquor consumed in this country is illicit. If any taxes should be lowered, he said, they should not be liquor taxes. The present rate is "not excessive...
...Deer Park's problems are solved in a predictable way, but not before the contents of a madame's memory for sexual oddities has spilled all over the book. (Incidental intelligence, which will cause lifted eyebrows in Europe: after an illicit night, it is the gentleman who makes breakfast.) There is some good recorded speech, and readers of Confidential magazine can brush up their vocabularies. Sample: "Don't panic, love-bucket . . . Get me a small martin...
...bosom begins to heave during his sermons, and Humphrey himself gets unseasonably hot under the ecclesiastical collar. However, by the time the audience has experienced the illicit delights of what amounts to a free trial package of sacrilege, the script "does a gopher," as Hollywood writers say. It runs for cash cover...
With his viscerosophical bifocals on, Huxley can make a subject like illicit sex seem excitingly muco-spiritual. But when it comes to fashioning moral judgments or making final points, The Genius and the Goddess manages to be as arbitrary-and as fuzzy-as the code of Hollywood's Johnston Office...