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...school he was already writing the page-long sentences that make even non-asthmatics gasp for breath. A schoolfellow took him to a brothel, but Proust was appalled; the madam looked like a murderess. At any rate, he was destined for darker vices...
Died. Billie Holiday, 44, Negro blues singer, whose husky, melancholy voice reflected the tragedy of her own life; in Manhattan. Born of indigent teenagers, schooled in a Baltimore brothel, she stubbornly nursed her resentment, poured it out in songs that reached their height of popularity in the early '40s - Billie's Blues, The Man I Love, above all, Strange Fruit, a description of a Negro lynching in the South - succumbed to the dope addiction which dogged...
...more serious to disturb the economic and social feudal order than to kill or maim a man. The maximum penalty for blaspheming, destroying hops, burning a haystack, or "maliciously damaging a river bank" is still life imprisonment. But the maximum penalty for forcing a child to live in a brothel is six months, and having sexual intercourse with a child or maiming a person by reckless driving can bring only two years. In spite of gradual reforms, it is still worse to steal a dog (18 months) than to attack a neighbor (one year...
...film investigates the lives of six prostitutes who work in "Dreamland," a better-class brothel in Tokyo's notorious Yoshiwara district, and for the most part, the acting is excellent. Machiko Kyo is particularly good. She slips so naturally into lace undies and Americanized manners that she is hard to recognize as the stilted medieval heroine of Rashomon and Gate of Hell. If the story seems repetitive and interminable, so indeed must the life of a prostitute...
...like "the flutter of eyelashes against the mind") and penetrant thought (no such thing as art exists for artists and the public; "it only exists for critics and those who live in the forebrain"). The book also has scenes of ghastly hilarity, as when Mountolive stumbles inadvertently into a brothel of child prostitutes and nearly loses his reason as well as his wallet...