Word: illicit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fended off with a barbed wire fence. Instead of Satan, SIN features a lithe delinquent called Ssss, who is bad in a soulful rather than a derogatory way. When man's ancestor decides that a maid is more desirable than a mate, the first woman indulges in an illicit love affair with Ssss, multiplying and acquiring the name of Evil (presumably the derivation of Eve) as a result. In short, the situation in paradise runs refreshingly amok for a while. So it's sort of disappointing when propriety quashes revisionism, becoming one of the foundations of society after...
...York's Chemical Bank was fined $225,000 and fired 25 employees after pleading guilty to a charge of failing to report $8.5 million in hundreds of all-cash transactions. But a felony count specifically charging the bank with laundering $1 million in illicit funds was dropped...
...prefers to use the most obsolete devices of traditional fiction. It seems a century since one act of illicit sex led the heroine to pregnancy. Here, when Ida is raped by a homesick German soldier, little blue-eyed Giuseppe appears promptly nine months later. In bygone books, the children of such misalliances were frequently provided with preternatural or otherwise spooky talents. Hester Prynne, for example, was unsettled by the prescience of her illegitimate daughter Pearl in The Scarlet Letter. Similarly, Ida frets naively about Giuseppe's intense otherworldliness. Morante's symbolism is rarely more modern than the 19th...
Meanwhile, Rabin last week was characteristically uncertain about his future plans. Rather than seek a trial that might demean the office of Premier, he readily paid a token $ 1,600 fine for having been the co-signer of his wife's illicit bank account. His wife Leah, however, was formally indicted; if found guilty, she could be fined up to $63,000 and sentenced to three years in prison. Although he quit as Labor candidate for Israel's top job, Rabin could not resign office immediately; as head of a caretaker government, he was bound...
...Dirty Linen, a topical headline scandal has caught Stoppard's fancy. A campaign of sinnuendo has been launched in the British press implying that almost all the Members of Parliament are guilty of illicit sexual hanky-panky. A select committee of the House of Commons has been appointed to investigate the charges...