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...triumph for the virtuous, "dry," citizens of Corallis, who preach lasting welfare on John Barleycorn, but used to sneak out behind the shed every once in a while anyway. Undoubtedly, the most preached- against man in the county is Angelo Bonatura, who has the local monopoly in the illicit liquor trade, a monopoly that has taken him eight years and an artful homicide to complete...
...tiring veteran of the writing wars, is blocked on the plot of his latest novel. When the words will not come, he resorts to a form of inspiration that is not new in the writing game-although his name for it is: he goes on a brief, illicit sexual romp he calls a fête. His worldly-wise wife Léone ("I have made love with many men") indulges his impulses. When Lucie, who adores bop records and Duc's novels, arrives at the novelist's villa outside Paris, Due gets...
...other islands, mostly small, barren and uninhabited, plus Kowloon Peninsula and the New Territories on the Chinese main land-altogether some 398 square miles jammed with 3,000,000 people, 99% of whom are Chinese. Hong Kong booms with banks and stockbrokers, merchants and money lenders, smugglers and illicit dealers in gold, narcotics and women. As fast as new land is reclaimed from the sea, it sprouts offices, apartments, factories, mills, warehouses, docks. Ships flying a score of flags sail from Hong Kong to the far parts of the earth-Abidjan, Khorramshahr, Miri, Zanzibar. Nearly 20,000 Chinese junks...
...Whites, apartheid is many things: police raids for illicit liquor and for people who do not carry the "passes" which control the movement of every African...
...single nerve . . ."), but it is pallid stuff compared with the rape, incest, flagellation and other veneries of Peyton Place and Return to Peyton Place. If Author Metalious continues such deception, her readers will all go back to Jack Woodford, the U.S.'s leading plain-wrapper author (Dangerous Love, Illicit...