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...DiMaggio had the most famous baseball wife ever--Marilyn Monroe. But some current brides come close. Five points each if you can identify the husbands of golfer Nancy Lopez and illicit film star Chesty Morgan...
...well as rigor in rap flash. If you think high, knitted ski caps worn at impossible angles are just funny-looking, you only get half the joke. Printed legends like I'D RATHER BE SKIING refer not to snowy slopes but to white mounds of a certain illicit inhalable substance. Greek fisherman hats, or bike-team hats, even shirts with alligator trademarks are worn with what Rap Scene Writer Michael Holman calls "absurd humor." He sees it as a deliberate mockery of the preppie look, of "the powers that be. Sheepskin contradicts the hip hop aesthetic because...
...This is no mere matter of flashbacks. Rather, Pinter charts the entire course of Jerry's affair with Emma backward, starting with a wistful coda, then proceeding through breakup, Robert's discovery of what the couple is up to, the rental of a love nest, the first illicit meeting, the initial acknowledgment of mutual attraction, with which the film ends. There is something smug and self-conscious about this conceit, but it is also unbalancing. Since the triangle cliché is so familiar, the only possible way to impart suspense is by focusing on what happened first...
Each year more than 600,000 girls under 18 go to federally supported clinics to get contraceptives. Responding to conservative charges that the Government was a silent partner in promoting illicit sex, the Reagan Administration last week formally announced a long-proposed new rule. Starting Feb. 25, clinics receiving federal funds that give birth-control pills or other prescription contraceptives to an unmarried minor must notify the parents within ten working days. Hastening into court, the Planned Parenthood Federation, the American Civil Liberties Union and New York State, among others, contended that this threatened invasion of privacy violates...
...when Sagan reportedly began battling spells of illness, and her novels grew skimpier and more vulnerable to attack. In 1981 she was devastated when a French court banned her twelfth novel, a 178-page crime story called Le Chien Couchant (The Setter), on the ground that it was an "illicit reproduction" of a short story by another writer. The ban was later reversed on appeal...