Word: pimp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Schell speaks Chinese and can end-run an official travel brochure; yet, he never seems certain if Benefit-the-People was a pimp or just a young punk playing at the second oldest profession. What impresses him is the new willingness of many Chinese to assert their opinions and desires. Says one young woman who dreams of becoming a fashion designer: "Of course I want what is best for myself during my life. I think that is only human nature." Schell finds such sentiments to be radical departures from the orthodoxy of the founding father. It is as if people...
...exploited, or at least toyed with by an expert. Perhaps the marionette strings pull us in directions we do not wish or deserve to go. The movie does not try to be a polemic, but it is so good it becomes one. "Nobody is independent," Isabelle's pimp yells, spanking her. "Not whores, not typists, not duchesses, not servants, not champion tennis players...
...with his face twelve inches from me, bring a lamp up to my ear and launch into a third degree, accusing the church's spiritual leader Moon, of being Satan incarnate, a con-man and a snake. They ripped Reverend Moon's picture, and told me I was a pimp, a prostitute and a piece of trash...
...faced a man with a revolver who was threatening to blow Ramos' brains out because he had thrown a snowball. "By then," he says, "I knew that if you're no good in school or in sports, there's nothing left to do around here but pimp, hustle dope, act in porno movies and, yeah, steal. Everybody's gotta live...
When convicted pimp Sterling Godfrey walked out of the federal prison in Atlanta in 1977, after serving nearly five years of a maximum 15-year term, he still owed his $35,000 fine. But Godfrey said he was short of cash, so the U.S. Attorney's Ofiice in the capital obligingly allowed him to pay exactly $10 a month, thus giving him almost three centuries to pay his debt to society. Godfrey fell behind that undemanding schedule, even though the FBI discovered that he had re-established a lucrative prostitution business, opened a bicycle shop and acquired a Cadillac...