Word: illicitness
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TELLING THE TRUE-TH? In the 1970s, the government of Italy began demanding that American museums return art that they believed had been looted from Italian soil. But for years, domestic museums refused to comply unless Italy could provide substantial evidence that these items had been acquired through illicit means...
...these disadvantages are simply too steep a price to pay for postseason glory. The persistent cancerous affects of the money and power that accompany big time athletics at American universities are ever-present. Within the past two weeks, scandals involving recruiting conduct at Indiana University and $300,000 in illicit gifts allegedly received by 2005 Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush while attending the University of Southern California have seen Indiana’s coach dismissed and Bush in court. Of course, we could not omit mention of a report in Sunday’s New York Times that underscored...
...Even from afar, North Korea is rarely dull. In the course of writing about the place, I have interviewed government spooks who track the country's illicit arms trade, as well as its counterfeiting and drug-running businesses. I have also written about legitimate South Korean businessmen who have invested there, hoping it's a low-wage alternative to China. And I have followed the seemingly endless permutations of Washington's fitful efforts to convince Pyongyang to give up its nuclear program. When, defiantly, North Korea set off a nuclear device in October 2006, I wrote a cover story...
...fatwa against the use of Hussein, and broadcasters began trying to report on the controversy without actually saying the name too much, dancing around the offending word as if they were doing a segment on The Vagina Monologues. In both cases, the word comes off as not quite illicit, but certainly a little taboo. (See pictures of Barack Obama's family tree...
...actor could encapsulate the limitations of the Oscar mind-set, it would be Stanwyck, who in the early '30s all but created the movies' image of the tough broad, surviving and thriving in the Depression through a wily, earthy cynicism. Stanwyck was sensational in grimy melodramas, from Illicit and Night Nurse to the immoral, immortal Baby Face. But she didn't get an Oscar nomination until 1938, when she broke from her normal screen character to play the nobly sacrificing mother in Stella Dallas. Seven years later, when she was a finalist as the rotten femme fatale of Double Indemnity...