Word: brothels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...improbable quest through Prague for morphine to ease his clandestine patient's pain, Dr. Braun seeks out his sister, who has been reduced to the level of working as a cleaning woman in a Nazi-run brothel. He first blunders into the girls' shower room-giving Brynych an excuse for a breathtaking study of the splash and spray of water on naked female forms. Later, the camera encounters a nightmare revel of swinish soldiers among whom the girls are herded like cattle before being returned to their stalls. In a corner, Braun comes upon the body, ignored...
...twentieth century. This was my personal discovery in the show, the piece of puzzle that so happily fell into place for me. Just as Degas was the disciple of Ingres, so Matisse, I believe, was the descendant of Degas in the classical French tradition. In, for example, the brothel scenes (Catalog#'s 18-25) in Gallery XII, we can already sense Matisse's future spaces and decorative forms...
...official in charge of "the box" of codes needed to respond to a thermonuclear war in case Lyndon Johnson should die). Soviet Diplomat Alexander Alexandrov found his hotel room accidentally wired up to a U.S. communications center. Reporters covering the Vice President were crammed into a hastily scrubbed brothel armed with cans of bug repellent. But next morning Humphrey was cheerily wishing all comers a hearty New Year as his feet sank into melting tar and Liberia's tatterdemalion army of 4,500 men and girls shambled past in gala formation...
...most stringent in the Western world and newsmen are properly chary of them. Truth is never a defense. Even so, the London Sunday Times was not wary enough when it ran a picture caption descnbmg Michael Abdul Malik, a Black Muslim indicted for inciting race hatred, as a "brothel keeper, procurer and property racketeer." That was the truth but it revealed Malik's record before he came to trial-a violation of the law. Times Editor Harold Evans was haled into court on contempt charges...
Many of the surveillance devices are in extremely wide use. Businesses spy on assembly-line workers and executives alike. Colleges listen in on dormitory rooms. Blackmail-minded brothel owners look in on their customers. Police hunt homosexuals with ceiling cameras installed in men's rest rooms. Cops also bug hoods, while hoods bug cops. Some towns have experimented with closed-circuit TV cameras on the streets; using street lights, police can watch at night for crimes. District attorneys have been known to record lawyer-defendant conferences, and everyone believes that everyone's wiretapping everyone else in Washington...