Word: illicitness
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...widely known nuclear arsenal. When was the last time Israel allowed the International Atomic Energy Agency to inspect its nukes? Why hasn’t Israel signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty? Is the writer simply ignorant, or is he knowingly dissembling Israel’s significant involvement with illicit weapons of mass destruction? Is Israel exempt from the writer’s criticism because of its “shared values” with America (which happens to be the only country in the world to ever use nuclear weapons)? How about Pakistan and its infamous Abdul Qadeer Khan...
...Weeds (Mondays, 10 p.m. E.T.) focuses on the supply side. Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker) is a housewife in fictional, upscale Agrestic, Calif., whose husband dies, leaving her with two sons and too little insurance money. So she starts dealing marijuana to bored salarymen. Soon Nancy discovers a whole illicit world of suburban toking: a young dealer gripes to her that his inventory was tapped out by stoners watching the bird documentary Winged Migration at the multiplex. Far from hardening her, her tiptoe into the grass has Nancy "beginning to think I am extremely naive...
Ultimately, all of the major characters in the novel get into trouble in this house. Stuart arrives, putting his charitable impulses to the test by trying to help Edward, and is driven out. Harry and Midge stumble into Seegard by mistake, which results in the exposure of their illicit affair. When he returns to the comparative serenity of London, Edward casts a baffled look backward at all he has experienced: "In a way it's all a muddle starting off with an accident: my breakdown, drugs, telepathy, my father's illness, cloistered neurotic women, people arriving unexpectedly, all sorts...
...collection about expatriates in decadent pre-Nazi Germany, which was adapted as I Am a Camera, a 1951 play and 1955 movie, and Cabaret, a 1966 Broadway musical and 1972 movie; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif. Always a rebel, he went to Berlin in 1929 to sample its illicit pleasures, as well as to visit his lifelong friend and sometime lover, W. H. Auden. An immigrant to the U.S. in 1939, Isherwood became an occasional Hollywood screenwriter and lecturer at various California campuses in his later years. He also wrote openly about his homosexuality in novels (A Single...
...refusal to obey international protections for rare animals. A typical victim: the pangolin, a cute-as-a-button mammal, rather like an anteater, that is on the endangered list in Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand but has been winding up in American-made handbags and cowboy boots. The illicit traffic is covered up with sketchy documents that omit the country of origin...