Word: pimp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unless we get the U.S. out now, Grenada will become to put it bluntly--a brothel with the U.S. as its pimp," she said after the rally...
Details are sketchy, for obvious reasons, but what is known is that 10 eight to 13-year-old boys and girls in Brattleboro, Vt., organized a prostitution operation and ran it without an adult pimp for up to a year before it was shut down last week. Police say the idea originated when a girl was sexually molested by two or more adults sometime last year. It apparently occured to the child that there was money to be made...
...takes his '50s sitcom family on a calamitous cross-country car trip. The other hit, Paul Brickman's Risky Business, is yet another entry in the lamentable tits-and-zits genre of teen-age sex comedies: a young man finds love and success by becoming a pimp. Still, this film is deftly made, the humor nicely understated, the leading actors (Tom Cruise and Rebecca de Mornay) smart and appealing. Risky Business has eyes to emulate Flashdance as a sleeper smash. If it does, that will be news...
...apartment-house courtyard, its high walls allowing the merest tantalizing glimpse of sky. This is Germany, 1927. As the nation spun from the humiliation of Versailles to economic and social anarchy, and then into the toxic delirium of the Third Reich, so Franz spins. A laborer and part-time pimp who has just been released from prison after serving four years for beating a girlfriend to death, Franz has few resources of intelligence or nobility upon which to build a decent new life. He is dull and heavy, a Zolaesque human beast, but less a villain than...
Bill makes a practice of abusing his guests; they become victims, not visitors. To one, he says, "I don't care what the jury said, you look like a rapist to me." He calls a minister a "scuzzbag," a Congressman "a pimp in a business suit," an Italian chef "an immigrant with a Crock Pot." "Me," "my" and "I" are his favorite words. He is forever complaining to his wan, shell-shocked station manager, played by Max Wright, that guests are dull: "Get me ax murderers, a rapist, Freddie Silverman." When he wants to get rid of a possible...