Word: illicit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pregnancy has been forced upon her by the black magic of the land's fierce sensuality. She flees to a sorcerer and dies in abortion. For a year, Owen's "chaste maple syrup soul" is frozen. Then he attends a frenzied voodoo initiation, slips into an illicit affair, takes to drink, and the tropics claim another victim...
...avenge this, Morel burns villages, destroys a plantation owner's house and an illicit tannery specializing in wastepaper baskets made of elephants' feet; in a desert cabaret he arranges to have the backside of France's most famous woman hunter publicly whaled. By this time Morel has allies. Somehow his gesture toward saving the elephants has attracted the world's attention. Like Albert Schweitzer, Morel has become a symbol for those discontented with the quality of modern existence. His allies, in the nature of things, are an odd lot. His personal Maquis, or tusk force, consists...
...Zola's early novel, Thérèse Raquin, a somber slice of life that was called pornographic as soon as it came out. Neither book nor movie is. Written with Naturalist Zola's unfailing passion for the sordid underside of reality, the book showed how illicit love led to murder, how murder turned love to hate, how hate led to plots of new murders, and how a couple of suicides ended the whole bloody business. The movie plucks the story from the hands of fate and throws it into the lap of chance. It moves...
...appointed date two weeks ago, the tall bird returned to New Haven and rendezvoused with the owl, and the illicit migration was underway. In New York the two birds got stoned in the Stork Club, but were ejected by Sherman Billingsley when he discovered that Thresky was not a stork. Dizzy Gillespie at Birdland was more hospitable (see cut), but again the tipsy birds were booted when they began squawking and hooting in time with the music...
After almost four months and nearly a million words of testimony from 381 witnesses, Italy's famed Dongo trial came to a melancholy stop. The government had been working hard to show that the Italian Communist Party had shot and knifed its way into illicit control of "the gold of Dongo"-the $90 million treasure that Mussolini was carrying at the time of his capture and killing by partisans in April 1945 (TIME, June 24). Last week, with about 30 more witnesses to be heard from, one of the seven blue-ribbon jurors. 62-year-old Silvio Aldrighetti...