Word: illicited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reader concerned only with plot, the yield is relatively low. The pastoral is an ancient tradition. Small schools for the young daughters of the leisure classes have had more literary attention, certainly, than their numbers have called for. Freeman has missed no gothic twists here--ghost sightings, illicit trysts, sensual foreigners, even secret abortions...
opportunity. The perils are obvious. The free world's alliances are weakened and some of its economies faltering; the adversaries are more threatening and the have-nots more demanding. Military power and its illicit offspring, terrorism, threaten to break all restraints. Firm decisions elude American strategists on nuclear security. Recession continues and worries deepen over the impact of budget and tax cuts. Decline in the auto, steel and building industries spills over to small business, farming and credit...
...resourcefully sexy an actor he can be. His Gene O'Neill stalks the shrouded Provincetown beach in search of the eloquence of fog people; lounges lynxlike and purrs out a denunciation of political commitment; walks slowly toward Louise and waits as she steps up into their first illicit kiss-the most erotic moment in a movie that is as much about comrades as about lovers. Maureen Stapleton makes a flinty, domineering, humane Emma Goldman and, with just a hint of Bella Abzug brassiness, underlines Reds' straddling of two periods of American ferment: the late teens and the late...
...express their feelings physically: erotic dancing, lovemaking, or (how many times have you seen this?) a just-for-fun sparring match between the two men that grows increasingly vicious. For philosophy, one character ruminates: "Sometimes it's nice being alone. Then it can get...lonely." For the agony of illicit love: "Miriam. I love you. I don't know what else to say." "Let's just be quiet...
South Florida?that postcard corner of the Sunshine State, that lush strip of hibiscus and condominiums stretching roughly from Palm Beach south to Key West?is a region in trouble. An epidemic of violent crime, a plague of illicit drugs and a tidal wave of refugees have slammed into South Florida with the destructive power of a hurricane. Those three forces, and a number of lesser ills, threaten to turn one of the nation's most prosperous, congenial and naturally gorgeous regions into a paradise lost...