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Fredie, whom the two women accused at a court hearing in August of working as a pimp, denied these charges in last Sunday's Herald Advertiser. He attributed the allegations to a lie he said he told the women...
...drunk at the time," Fredie told the Herald. "I did tell them I was a pimp. That was a lie. I lied about myself. It has ruined my whole life...
...added that, on the advice of the Summer School woman, who was his friend and prostituting at higher prices, the Radcliffe woman decided to leave him and work for Fredie. B&G supervisor previously had offered to pimp for her, just as he had for the Summer School student, Overton said...
...gleaned material for his novels. Dance and dancers represented Celine's ideal of beauty, and McCarthy notes that this was, "ironically, fostered by the popular variety shows of wartime London." But his wandering in such milieus provided him with an even broader spectrum of sordid images: a savvy pimp initiated him into Soho's brothels; he was struck by the loneliness and humiliation of urban life in New York; the inhumanity of Detroit's factories, which he saw as a model for Europe, alarmed him. These bleak experiences reinforced his conviction that the Western world was collapsing and goaded...
...order, but he leaves the governing to Angelo, a celebrated Puritan played like a young Robespierre by John Cazale. Angelo believes in absolute justice but soon declines into lechery and official murder. Meanwhile the city fathers can't even clear the streets of prostitutes. A black pimp, brilliantly played in high camp by Howard Rollins Jr., asks, "Does your worship mean to gold and splay all the youth of the city?" The production wisely lets such contemporary resonances ring for themselves. The cast concentrates on turning quirks of plot into confrontations of flesh and blood...