Word: harlot
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Bessie Watty started out as an equally humorous character, constantly whining and eating sweets, but she became more serious as the show progressed. Smith did an outstanding job of portraying her character's development from a silly, flirtatious young girl to a vengeful, immoral harlot, a woman who was not weak, as the audience originally was led to believe, but rather, one of the most powerful characters in the play. After a suspenseful build-up, the clash between Bessie and Miss Moffat finally explodes at the end of The Corn is Green, making the somewhat surprise ending distressing, yet hopeful...
...pronouns. This construction sticks out just as much as, if not more than, the repeated use of "he." But that may be the point. People should call attention to the fact that English is sexist. The language provides dozens of negative words for a sexually active female (slut, ho, harlot) and not one for a male (stud?). It refers to groups as "you guys" when no men are present. It calls someone who presides and perfects a "master," while a "mistress" wallows in feminine immorality...
...hypocritical stance toward virginity and sexual promiscuity. It is proper for a woman to be a virgin, but it is not desirable in a man. Our society considers a promiscuous man a stud, the picture of machismo, while a promiscuous woman is viewed as a whore, slut or harlot, the antithesis of femininity. With the help of feminist scholarship, we have come to recognize this hypocrisy and have slowly been making headway in eradicating this double standard. Our recent enlightenment demonstrates that recognition of these double standards is the first step in reversing them...
...opportunity to be Upton Sinclair, I feel a duty to reveal all that I learned for the good of the American consumer. Never eat the popcorn at a movie theater. I must relate the story of the time Gina Maria Sandoval, she of the big hair, the Kabuki harlot make-up and the lavender Lee Press-On nails, was in charge of making the popcorn. We heard a muffled cry of horror and a Spanish expletive emerge from the lovely Gina, who she told us that she had lost one of her nails in the popcorn. About two hours later...
...Harlot's Ghost, published in 1991, Mailer embarked upon a sort of Moby Dick of the Central Intelligence Agency, with a volume that ran to more than 1,300 pages. A second installment is in progress. Meantime, the industrious Mailer offers Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery (Random House; 828 pages; $30), a kind of nonfiction psychobiography in which he turns his novelist's imagination to the '60s origin myth, John Kennedy's assassination. Oswald's Tale can be judged as investigative journalism or as literature. On either count a fair judgment would be favorable, though mixed. Sunshine and clouds...