Word: illicitness
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Boudin said that the September 1971 burglarizing of Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office by Nixon staff members led to the government's "rare move" of bringing the Pentagon Papers case into the public limelight as justification for future illicit governmental inquiry...
...fixed. Harriet at first seems too kind and innocent to live. But her unreflective goodness amounts almost to genius. When Blaise's second family comes to light and he begins to dash about with one foot in the trap of matrimony and the other in the bucket of illicit love, Harriet takes the edge off the hostility-and the hilarity-by befriending the illegitimate Luca, who is seriously disturbed and possibly retarded...
...Money. As one of the many hubs of illicit trade between Communist and government zones, the dingy little town northwest of Saigon near the Cambodian border provided extra earnings to the underpaid local soldiers (less than $30 a month for privates). They collected bribes whenever a merchant carrying such items as gasoline and medicine headed into the Communist zone, and again when he returned bringing back fruit or fowl...
...played by two unquestionably beautiful women. First to be deflowered was F. Scott Fitzgerald's Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby. Mia Farrow plays the role with all of its attendant splendour and graceful, but inevitably brutish, carelessness. Farrow maintains a delicate balance between a gay childishness with her illicit lover, Gatsby, and a wanton callousness, a total disregard for anybody's feelings. Henry James's novella, Daisy Miller, adapted for the screen by Peter Bogdanovich, is a portrait of exactly that kind of woman. But Cybill Shepherd's performance is slightly more questionable. In fact, the whole movie...
...privilege." The implication is that Daisy may certainly not know everyone, and Bogdanovich sets out to exploit the underlying sexual currents of this statement. One of the mysterious qualities of James's novella is the question of Winterbourne's motives. At the very beginning there are intimations of an illicit relationship between him and another woman never seen in the book. Then the narrative returns to the story at hand and we are led into Winterbourne's mind only enough to tantalize. You can never really tell if he's out to win Daisy's heart or her other parts...