Word: brothel
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...wild colors, exciting at first, ace dizzying by movie's end. The geography never makes sense--houses on hills with no apparent connection to the downtown bistro-brothel district, or to the beach. A debauched French movie-within a-movie, apparently being Filmed in the middle of the main story, also lacks an identifiable time and place...
...abused the privilege. Those ear lier Vargas Llosa novels, some written while he lived in Europe, were glaring reflections of Peruvian oppression and corruption and the Latin cult of virility. The most stylish was Conversation in the Cathedral (1975), in which the country was symbolically depicted as a brothel during the administration of President Manuel Odria...
...students got to talking about brothels. She told them that she'd never seen one, but had always wanted to. The students agreed to take her, and they went to a house at the edge of the city. A large man in uniform entered with a pistol in his holster. He was the chief bodyguard of the dictator of Guatemala. Looking around the room he saw Jane and said, 'That's the one I want.' The students tried to protest. 'This is a tourist,' they said. The proprietor offered him one of the other...
...jogger and weight lifter, he has the strength and endurance to repel invaders and shoulder his relatives' burdens. Characteristically, he marries the most imaginatively troubled woman in the book, a rape victim who spends many angry years in a bear suit as a bouncer at a brothel...
...travelers in the 18th century, who were tougher and fewer than their modern counterparts, took a different view of it. The city seemed to fulfill the promise of the Grand Tour-to have the ancients as one's tutors, and the lower classes as one's brothel. Naples was poor in mementos of the Renaissance, but it offered something even rarer: no mere glimpse of classical antiquity, but a panoramic view...