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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...
...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...
...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...
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...
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...