Word: illicitness
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Mike uses Mendy’s Orthodox looks to smuggle weed past security check points—Hasidim attract little suspicion. Mendy also befriends “The Exterminator,” an M16-wielding Jewish settler, and Razi, an Arab who negotiates illicit deals between Jewish settlers and Palestinian landowners in the West Bank...
...loathe Kim Jong Il," he told author Bob Woodward. "I've got a visceral reaction to this guy because he is starving his people." Bush said that, unlike the Clinton Administration, his would not submit to Kim's nuclear blackmail by rewarding the obdurate nation for abandoning its illicit ambitions. For the next 18 months, North Korea was pretty much ignored...
...color effects, Romanek frequently takes an askew approach to his subjects’ celebrity to warp his audiences’ preconceptions. In Fiona Apple’s “Criminal,” he takes the barely legal sensuality of the singer and sullies it in decidedly illicit ways, and in the highly regarded “Hurt,” he lays out the iconic legend of Johnny Cash in flashes of archival footage until offering the ailing singer at his most vulnerable. Countless other directors work at a similar level of inspired ingenuity, including computer animator Shynola...
Time that Kivi has spent on suspension for “transfer of an illicit drug”: 20,160 Minutes...
...unequivocal written warranty stating that the owner had good title to the objects. She also noted that none of the statuettes appeared in the Art Loss Registry, an international database of stolen art, which Sotheby's co-founded. The only indication the auction house had that they were illicit came via a written request from China's ambassador, Phillips says. After a flurry of negotiations, the auction house pulled the items--just 20 minutes before the bidding was set to begin...