Word: illicit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heroine (Arlene Francis) is a middle-aged housewife- romantic despondent, full of vague aspirations', and a bit of a nit - who doesn't know whether to put her faith in Freud or Betty Fnedan. She is carrying on an illicit affair with an Italian-American sex mechanic (Robert Forster) who is young enough to be her son. She tries to inoculate the boy with culture by drooling John Donne to him, but he is a resolutely monosyllabic nobrow...
...Crime and Punishment-but times have changed. In contemporary Soviet society, crime reporting is permitted only where it serves the state, and by such standards, Petrovka 38 is a veritable revelation. The story describes two murders, daring daylight holdups, drug addiction, even a soupçon of illicit sex. In permitting the book's publication abroad, Soviet authorities may have been disarmed by its moral: Russia's GUMshoes are efficient, decent. and humane. After deciding that one of the outlaws, a 17-year-old poet, is guilty of nothing more than an immoderate dose of vodka, they talk...
Long after the eyewash has been absorbed into the scenery, the illicit lovers part, clearly miserable but matured by their experience. Audiences may learn a thing or two as well, after having observed how wanly Art imitates Life...
...nonprescription channels, for sale under the counter at bars, gas stations and restaurants. The profits are enough to give even the surliest gangster an amphetamine lift: he can buy the tablets wholesale for $1 a thousand or less, and resell them at $30 to $50 a thousand, while the illicit retailer sells them at a nickel or a dime apiece and takes in from $50 to $100 a thousand...
...turn up in Brainstorm, but none sturdy enough to compete with Producer-Director William Conrad's unsettling cinematic mannerisms. He recklessly jump-cuts from scene to scene, using gimmicky transitions or linking one sequence to another with trick dialogue. Between times, the plot turns upon Jeff's illicit love for Anne and his rash notion that he can murder her sadistic mate and get away with it by feigning insanity. The deed accomplished, all goes well until his encounter with a strikingly theatrical psychiatrist (Viveca Lindfors) who hints as tactfully as possible that Jeff's brainstorm...