Word: pimp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next two and a half hours, Zorba directs his master on a plunge to utter ruin. First, Zorba causes the mine to cave in. Next Zorba plays pimp and pushes Bates into a love affair with a local peasant woman. Her violent death at the hands of her fellow villagers soon ends the affair...
Sidney Lumet, who directed The Pawnbroker, makes movies of lower-class people moving in atmospheres of filth and crime but still retaining their humanity. Such is the case of Nazemann, a pawnbroker in Spanish Harlem who operates as a fence for a Negro pimp...
...might wonder though how a simple pawnbroker like Nazemann could have the intellectual capacity to analyze his experience in the manner that true tragedy demands. But we must remember that Nazemann has fallen in life and we arrive at his story in medias res. The pimp he works for calls him "professor," and it vaguely suggested in other places that he once held such a position. Lumet's failure to clarify this point or indeed to provide his audience with a strong picture of Nazemann before his fall constitutes a major flaw of the film...
...Pimp? He tried again: "You considered yourself an undercover man, or pimp?" (Objection sustained.) "You had a burp gun in your car, didn't you?" (Objection sustained.) "Are you a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?" (Objection sustained.) Then...
Malcolm X had been a pimp, a cocaine addict and a thief. He was an unashamed demagogue. His gospel was hatred: "Your little babies will get polio!" he cried to the "white devils." His creed was violence: "If ballots won't work, bullets will...