Word: harlotization
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...Ginzburg's conviction, offered a chatty letter. Frank Harris, author of the social and erotic confession My Life and Loves (which had not yet been legally published in the U.S.), got the biographical treatment. The mood lightened with a couple dozen limericks, familiar to centuries of frat boys. The harlot from Kew, the man from Stamboul and the fellow from Kent all made guest appearances, but not, alas, the hermit named Dave...
...rear. I quickly sought out photographs of the old Rainbow Brite doll that once sat in her giant plush rainbow in my corner. And there she was skirt designed to hit the tops of her thighs. Some things never change, and at least Rainbow Brite will always be a harlot.—Staff writer Margaret M. Rossman can be reached rossman@fas.harvard.edu...
...Taco Bell ad that entices us with all the “crunchy, gooey, melty stuff” we can handle, but beyond those strokes of brilliance it has been good for little more than bad hangovers, missed class, and missed opportunities. The night is a clever harlot tempting eager students with her promise of unlimited extra time to makeup what we miss during the day. Unfortunately she takes more than she receives. Hours are repaid in full whether in class accompanied by a pool of drool in your notebook, or at the computer, where zoning-out encourages such productive...
...nuns, whose young charge Sister Agnes (Meg Tilly) has been accused of strangling with its umbilical cord a baby to whom she had secretly given birth. The troubled cynic is Martha Livingston (Jane Fonda), a lapsed-Catholic psychiatrist determined to discover if Agnes is mad or a murderer, a harlot or a modern saint. The outsider is the moviegoer, who can have a pretty grand time monitoring a tug of wills between the mother superior and the shrink, while contemplating the place of faith in a world that has given up on miracles...
...Giotto fresco; the actors find precision in the volcanic gestures of Italian opera. In one scene, Bat sits alone in the town square to confess the origin of his ailment, and a flashback shows the infant Bat in a field at night, his huge eyes transfixed by the harlot moon. No minimalist torpor for the Tavianis--every frame is over the top and on the money...