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...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...
...slot machines are common throughout Germany as well, but the real romance is still in the wheel of fortune. Explains Carl-Alexander von der Groeben, promotion manager at Bad Neuenahr: "Somehow we are still surrounded by the ancient aura of being socially exclusive, and just a little bit illicit. You can see it in the face of the grocer's wife, who comes in and looks around to see if anyone there knows...
...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...
Simone: Ah, Madame de Stael was wonderful. But all that salon-power was unofficial, illicit. Out in the real world, the public sphere, there were only men. Who remembers today that Madame de Stael coined the distinction between Classic and Romantic? In school you learn about Napoleon, Robespierre; who in the next generation will remember that Neitzsche's mistress prodded him into writing his greatest book? It's shameful...
Klanonyms. Klansmen appeared as self-appointed judges, juries and executioners. They resumed the reign of terror against Negroes. They tarred and feathered men and women-white and black-whom they suspected of illicit sexual relations, and lynched, mutilated or lashed hundreds of others. They tortured Jewish shopkeepers, whom they accused of massive international financial conspiracies; they published a spurious Knights of Columbus "oath" that portrayed Roman Catholics as villainous conspirators against the U.S. Their bedsheets became robes emblazoned with ornate embroidery, and they invented a whole new thesaurus of Klanonyms. There were the Kleagle and the Klabee, the Kladd...