Word: bawd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chanteuse or bawd, in concerts or movies, Midler has put her body to nonstop work. Harnessing the energy of some Rube Goldberg perpetual-motion machine, prancing on those fine filly legs like the winner of the strumpet's marathon, Bette uses her body as an inexhaustible source of sight gags. She shimmies it, twists it, upends it to reveal polka-dot bloomers. In 1978 at the London Palladium she flashed the front of it; at Harvard she exposed the rear. She has made a cottage industry of her buxom bosom. In the 1985 album Mud Will Be Flung Tonight...
...music is refreshingly versatile and fetchingly melodic. The masterly and inventive directorial hand of Tommy Tune is everywhere in evidence, but he has permitted the scent of high camp and low vulgarity to permeate far too much of the show. In one obnoxious sequence, a plump, leering bawd inducts the boy Guido (Cameron Johann) and three of his classmates into the rites of sex to the beat of tambourines and the priapic chant Be Italian, Intermittently spotlighted during the show is a quartet of women dubbed "The Germans," who would have been called "The Beef Trust" in vaudeville, a gross...