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...team (the "world renowned Barooklyn Bimmmmmboos") scrounging around for the carnival trade in scraggly Southern hamlets. Not only do the Bimbos play their exhibitions in drag, but they boast one of the shortest shortstops in captivity: Midget "Pogo" Burns, a onetime private detective now running from the giant black pimp he once shot up in San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/7/1975 | See Source »

...notions were no longer welcome. He has sharply trimmed the budget requests of every government department and asked the legislature to consolidate several top administration jobs. But his problem is that he cannot contain his indignation. He infuriated members of both parties when he called a legislator a "common pimp." He also referred to opponents as "criminals" and declared that "it is the professional politicians who prostitute the system." By displaying his pique, he has impaired his cost-cutting program, even though most politicians agree with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: No More Wine and Roses | 4/14/1975 | See Source »

...Dostoyevskian man. He must risk the bundle in Las Vegas (where he doubles it), then lose it all on some unwise basketball bets. He finally settles the matter by getting his favorite student -a black -to shave points in a game, then expiate that sin by provoking a black pimp and whore to punish him unwittingly in a switchblade battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mad Fantasy | 10/28/1974 | See Source »

Assaults by family members or lovers are generally excluded, as are injuries in the usual barroom brawl. Other sorts of provocation or involvement by a victim can also lead to disqualification. The New York review board recently turned down a man who had been stabbed by the pimp of a prostitute he was visiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Easing Crime's Pain | 10/14/1974 | See Source »

...hysterics. As they were taking her to the police station...she would sit down on the ground every five steps, scream and lift up her clothes, revealing her nakedness, to show the bruises. 'I'm a prostitute, is that why they have to whip me? It's the pimp's fault--I'll show...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Climbing on Words | 9/26/1974 | See Source »

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