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...unscreened espionage thriller from the late 1930s, a classic black-and-white movie that captures the murky allegiances and moral ambiguity of Europe on the brink of war. All the treasured cinematic touches that convey a mood of incipient danger are present -- a dead Soviet agent in a waterfront brothel in Ostend, lonely footsteps muffled by the snow on a dark Berlin street, a worn leather satchel with a false bottom left in a Prague railway station. No, they do not make movies like that anymore. But in Dark Star, Alan Furst has replicated this idealized form, this image...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Classic Spooks: DARK STAR by Alan Furst | 4/15/1991 | See Source »

...many dancers, that is the rule. In fact, slutty may be an inadequate description of the Club MTV spirit, which is reminiscent of a post-nuclear brothel. People wear very little, and they look very strange. The sleaze factor is considerable...

Author: By Maya E. Fischhoff, | Title: Harvard Dancers 'Funk' on Club | 2/16/1991 | See Source »

...lawyer who is the brother of Conforte's attorney. Among those who had expressed interest in the property were a nursing home and a halfway house. Whoever winds up with the Mustang may lack one key element: the special use permit that allowed it to operate as a brothel. Storey County yanked the license last month and may not give it back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auctions: Stripped Bare | 11/26/1990 | See Source »

Just how much is a child worth? To a father in northern Thailand, 10-year- old Poo was worth $400 when he sold her to a middleman to work in Madame Suzy's Bangkok brothel. To Madame Suzy, Poo is worth $40 a night while she's still young and fresh. But her price will soon come down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Suffer the Little Children | 10/8/1990 | See Source »

Light, landscape, enclosed gardens and domes were everywhere; regular human models, harder to come by. Matisse's main one was a girl named Zorah, who worked in a brothel in Tangier. She is most unforgettably commemorated in On the Terrace, the central panel of a triptych he painted in 1912-13, on commission for Morosov. Zorah kneels in front of a bowl of goldfish in the suffused aquamarine light of a terrace. Apparently Matisse was worried that Morosov would object to the use of a prostitute, since the central panels of Russian triptychs often contained figures of the Virgin Mary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Domain of Light and Color | 7/2/1990 | See Source »

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