Word: brothel
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...Your report on German prostitution [July 23] says that the Dusseldorf brothel with 228 tenants handles nearly 8,000 customers per day. If the Dusseldorf gals are typical, then the enthusiastic reports we have read on the industrious nature of the German worker are greatly understated...
...Wharf Theater: The Hostage. The late Irish playwright and scourge Brendan Behan is at his bawdy best, using ribald humor to outrage and amuse-and to reveal the depths beneath human shenanigans-in the story of a young English soldier kept as hostage by the I.R.A. in a Dublin brothel...
...seeing, the generative organs were for generating. And only for generating. Thus, St. Justin Martyr in the 2nd century wrote: "We Christians marry only to produce children." Even stronger in tone was St. Augustine. Apart from childbearing, he gloomily concluded, "the marriage chamber is a brothel . . . husbands are shameful lovers, wives are harlots...
...seldom deeply moving. At times Lumet's style seems self-conscious and stagy, unable to distinguish brass from gold, with more clever camera work than the somber occasions warrant and too many theatrically glib vignettes. One jarring note is struck by a vicious black racketeer and brothel master (Brock Peters) who supports Nazerman's pawnshop as a front for his deals while basking in the luxury of an improbable white-on-white world adorned with white jackets, white walls, and a blond loverboy...
...parents became a divided family. First the war separated them. Her father was in the south of France; her mother, as an enemy alien, was obliged to stay in Paris to register daily with the police. During the occupation, the family moved into a Paris apartment above a brothel; when Jeanne ran down to the street, she would hurry past a long queue of waiting German soldiers. "I was happy enough," Jeanne says, "but I was a miserable brat. I wouldn't eat unless my mother danced for me and the poor woman had to dance and dance...