Word: illicitness
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...heart-tugging interviews with the wronged; privately, he is enamored of a blackmailing, homosexual spiv. Gerald's elder son is a humorless business tycoon who keeps two sets of emotional books: in one, a grim and proper wife; in the other, a toothsome, pseudo-bohemian mistress. This illicit affair is almost a parody...
...concentration camp grave to exact revenge. One night he hears footsteps on the floor above his palace study, storms out and plunges a pair of scissors repeatedly into the fleeing, shadowy figure of the intruder -only to discover that he has murdered his wife's cousin and illicit lover. Still gunning for the elusive Count Luna, Jessiersky next kills a huntsman poaching near his country shooting box. When the police close in, Jessiersky flees the country for Rome, and under the impression that he must avoid moonlight if he is to outwit his phantom enemy, dies in the labyrinth...
...knew of its copper-ore outcroppings, but because of lack of transportation saw no way to mine them at a profit. As late as 1950, when a road finally reached Chibougamau, the town consisted of little more than a rundown general store and a couple of bootleggers who sold illicit liquor to passing trappers. Then, with little fanfare, Campbell Chibougamau Mines Ltd. in 1952 sewed up a U.S. Government contract for its output, the next year started to sink a shaft. Last year it went into production, hauling concentrates laboriously by truck to the railroad at St. Felicien, 125 miles...
...point the daughter showed her claws and drove the poor woman to suicide. A Certain Smile is only slightly less scandalous, and similarly concerned with Author Sagan's thirst for drinking at the fountain of eternal middle age. This time the heroine ditches her schoolmate lover for an illicit affair with his married uncle...
Joseph, the father, is a common factory worker, and at 50 he is passive and dizzy from having punched too many time clocks in peace and war. The mother, Margarethe (Moe for short), is openly carrying on an illicit affair with a boarder young enough to be her son, and all the older children know it. Daughter Katie has the instincts, if not the business acumen, of a prostitute−and a two-year-old illegitimate son to show for it. But it is Hank, a Neanderthal 18-year-old, around whom the family and its impending tragedy pivot...