Word: illicitness
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MEETING people was easy on the "Love Boat." Once you were invited on the show, you knew you'd have some illicit rendezvous with a washed-up movie star. Barring that, you would be sure to hit it off with Merril, Julie or Gopher...
...hair) responds to every real or imagined threat to his property values as if he were commanding a platoon in Nam -- with trusty telescope, walkie-talkie and a K ration of animal crackers. Another friend (Rick Ducommun) is your basic bully-wimp who goads Ray into all manner of illicit snooping. And Ray is the mild soul caught in the middle; with no special convictions, he mutates from a slightly curious homeowner to a horribly singed home wrecker. Hanks throws himself into this antiaudience movie with such suave energy that he seems determined to torpedo his hard...
BECAUSE Billy is not fully a member of the gang, he makes an excellent narrator. He has chosen his side and is privy to information, but he retains enough of his independence to report believably. Readers get more than a taste of depravity--murder, violence and illicit sex are painstakingly described, but thanks to Bathgate, they never grow callous. The readers' initial premise is not inverted...
...term gunrunning brings to mind images of swift boats landing rifles on shadowy and foreign shores. But the gunrunning that plagues the U.S. these days is more a matter of illicit firearms stashed in vehicles rolling boldly up interstate highways. Federal law strictly limits the resale of weapons. However, that has not stanched a flood of firepower that travels from Southern states, where guns are quickly and easily bought, to Northern ones, where sales are more tightly regulated. Firearms bought in gun shops in Florida, Texas and Virginia -- the three largest supply states -- fetch top dollar when sold...
...product. While conceding that some American feedlot operators have been cited for improperly administering approved hormones, the U.S. growers point out that the E.C. ban has fostered a thriving black market among European cattlemen in older, more dangerous compounds like DES. Some growers inject their herds with illicit drugs to cut costs. Last week a Belgian consumer magazine reported a survey of 500 butcher shops in which 25% of the hamburger samples tested contained DES and other illegal chemicals...