Word: besting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WORD FROM WASHINGTON is that when Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York needed support on an important bill, Sen. John Tower of Texas approached him and offered his backing in exchange for two tickets to The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. The bill passed. Now rumor has it that senators are calling Moynihan left and right for sought-after seats on Broadway...
...into the theater next door to watch well-scrubbed adolescent girls in Peppermint Soda. Just make sure you're back in your seat by the time Joey Ramone snaps, "Hey! Ho! Let's go!" and launches into "Blitzkrieg Bop," because the ten-minute Ramones set is the movie's best part...
...Benny and Gable, Alexis Smith finally gets to play the harlot Xaviera instead of hard to get. She slides down stairs and moseys off stage convincingly enough, but the Texas Tally Wackers--the "orchestra"--drown out her songs. She's still a pretty classy old whore, and does her best to compensate for a script crammed full of non-sequiturs. The storyline slips readily from bathos to pathos and back again...
...slick performance by Marilyn B. Johnson as Jewel, the brothel's caretaker. In a rousing number, she tells the houses residents that she gives away for free what they sell. "Twenty four hours of Lovin''' sends you reeling in a steamy frenzy; it's Whorehouse at its best. Alas, Johnson is also a stereotype: she is black. So one thing stands out about Whorehouse: this celebration of Texas is a mere confirmation of the rest of America's suspicions. If you're easily offended, don't go. But, great gushers, if you've got a rawhide skin...
Going by the mile with a split of 4:33 (their fastest of the season), Eichner and Murphy controlled the pace and the Bruins were never even close. Scidmore, running his best race ever as a collegiate, zipped by the co-leaders during the fourth mile. He slipped back to third again, when his legs suddenly "became leaden" and ended up 10 seconds behind the front runners...