Word: madam
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...wrought in Spain since Franco died. When I first visited in the late 1960s, driving around in a 1959 Hillman Husky shipped on the Southampton-Bilbao ferry, the tricornio-hatted Guardia Civil scared the churros out of me and my friends. Now, the Guardia address citizens as sir or madam, women have been admitted to active service ? and either sex can opt for the surgery Leonor won't need. For example, Alba Romero of Jaén, a serving Guardia Civil like her father and her four brothers. Born male, Alba, 35, has now had her genitals and Adam...
...Heidi Fleiss She was a new kind of madam, neither a rouged and overweight 60-year-old nor even a pedigreed East Coast socialite. Young, skinny and hip, Fleiss was charged with running a ring of high-priced L.A. prostitutes. She threatened to name names from her oversize appointment book and thereby threw Hollywood moguls (and presumably various Mrs. Moguls) into late-summer turmoil...
...Wing as the darling of pundits and pols. It has been cited as evidence that a woman could win in 2008, and producer Steven Cohen, a former Bill and Hillary Clinton press aide, even says it could help her do so. "For the viewing public to hear the phrase 'Madam President,'" he says, "certainly goes a great deal in getting people comfortable with the idea." (That may be a tad extreme. The argument assumes, on the one hand, that people weren't already willing to elect a woman and ignores, on the other, that CiC's viewership of 15 million...
However, as in one of his more recognized films, “When a Woman Ascends the Stairs”—a tale of an aging bar madam facing certain moral compromise and marking one of his many collaborations with actress Hideko Takamine—his heroines are proud and willful, only too aware of the reality of their situations and yet desperate to continue struggling...
...hardly took the Mayflower Madam to alert the citizenry to the news that genteel women had taken up prostitution. French films had the story 20 years ago: Luis Bunuel's Belle de Jour and Jean-Luc Godard's Two or Three Things I Know About Her spoke of suburban housewives who supplemented their allowances by turning tricks. The twist in Lizzie Borden's new film is that its call-girl protagonist Molly (Louise Smith) uses her earnings to support her half of a lesbian relationship...