Word: illicitness
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...experimental than it usually gets credit for. In addition to the familiar anthems (Aquarius, Let the Sun Shine In), many of the songs are mere snippets, hewing to few of the traditional rules of show-tune writing. In several, characters simply rattle off lists--of forbidden sexual practices or illicit drugs or symbols of middle-class respectability: "Ain't got no home, ain't got no shoes, ain't got no money, ain't got no class ..." It was a kind of musical demolition job, tearing down the old conventions as well as society's taboos, clearing...
...illegal market for drugs and gasoline may yet provide a lucrative alternative for smugglers, and it remains largely overlooked as security forces focus their limited resources on illicit weapons. In the more rural region of Maysan province, where a wide stretch of marshland border creates a difficult environment for Iraqi troops to operate, some officials say drug trafficking is on the rise. "Until now, the border forces do not have the capability to control the border," says police commander General Saad Ali Harbia in Maysan's capital, Amara. "A huge amount of drugs heading for the Gulf countries pass through...
...talk about building "independence," argue that having kids learn to solve their own problems and turn to peers and counselors for support is a key part of the experience. The implications are clear. They're lighting campfires, hiding and seeking, doing the spooky things campers do that feel wonderfully illicit if just because they involve getting dirtier than usual. Nothing to worry about...
...Phoenicians grew rich on the Greeks' passion for purple dye. But El Phil's anecdote sums up the current dilemma faced by this ancient cradle of commerce. Today an enormous economic gap separates the northern and southern shores of the Med. Too often it is bridged by the illicit and perilous transit of desperate human beings, instead of by the sanctioned flow of commerce...
...successful businesswoman) and interviewed them. Billy's quasi-incestuous interest in his sister echoes an episode of incest in Harrison's life. "I find [their story] has a forbidden, sexual charge," she writes. "Because love, murder and running away together do imply sex. They do suggest an illicit erotic fixation." There's something very creepy about her interest in the Gilley murders that is difficult for the reader to make peace with--she is not just a clarifying, interpreting narrator; she also makes herself a specimen to be gawked...