Word: incest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...things--the phone lines are cut, candlesticks take on the sinister aspect of murder weapons, and puns about catching one's death of cold begin to chill the air. The bumbling Scotland Yard detective soon appears out of thin air to thicken the plot into a London fog of incest, revenge, hidden pasts, family treasures, eccentric old ladies, and crazies of all ages...
...with a local real estate salesman, a French baker, a Belgian race-car driver, the beautiful young wife of a handsome old Kleenex heir, an alleged drug dealer and a supernatural trumpet. That's right, trumpet. There are charges of drug use. And menages a trois. And incest. And death threats. "It doesn't sound very American or normal," admits a rich young acquaintance of the Pulitzers, a Palm Beach resident for more than 20 years. "But it's Palm Beach. Palm Beach is not very normal in itself...
...fight, it sometimes seems that no one is uninvolved. Liza Pulitzer Leidy, 26, one of Peter's three children by his first marriage (to Lilly Pulitzer), was dragged in by Roxanne, who alleged that father and daughter had had a sexual encounter in Europe in 1972. The putative incest allegedly occurred two years before Roxanne and Peter met, and both principals deny any such intimacy. Rather, according to Leidy, her stepmother Roxanne made an untoward advance in 1979 after the two had sniffed cocaine in the bath room of a West Palm Beach disco. Testified Leidy: "She said that...
...Blue Lagoon that an air of innocent wonder can disarm all parental harrumphing about a movie that is essentially wall-to-wall sex and nudity. Now he has moved his operation from the Pacific to the Greek islands. Instead of titillating his young audience with a little sanitized incest, he offers them a genial disquisition on the joys of the menage a trois. Visually, however, the formula is as before-plenty of skin displayed before Arcadian scenery. The boy (Peter Gallagher) has a male-model pout for all emotions, and his American girlfriend (Daryl Hannah) obviously flunked elocution in high...
With slangy precision, "Young Adult" novels (Y.A. to the trade) vividly portray addictions, sexual awakenings and even the nightmares of rape and incest, all within skateboard distance of the community swimming pool. Says prize-winning Author Robert Cormier (The Chocolate War; I Am the Cheese): "Kids aren't just sitting there watching TV and playing video games." In fact, teen-agers appear to be buying their own books for a change. Retail giants like B. Dalton have expanded Young Adult racks in their shopping-mall stores. Books such as Rock 'n ' Roll Nights, The Divorce Express...