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...Homecoming is a brutal play. Pinter forces you to laugh at a group of people who are so miserable, so maladjusted, so sick, that they are grotesquely funny, Max, the retired butcher, is an ugly old lecher who retaliates for the abuse heaped on him by his wealthy pimp of a son by browbeating his wimpy brother, a sixty-three-year-old chauffeur. Into the mixture comes Teddy, Max's oldest son, a professor at an American university, who seems at first to be the only normal member of the family. But Teddy lets his wife go whoring with both...

Author: By Michael Ryan, | Title: The Theatregoer The Homecoming | 3/6/1971 | See Source »

Sweet mack. A sugar pimp, one who is educated, charming and nonviolent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: To Follow the Action: A Player's Glossary | 1/11/1971 | See Source »

...pull. To win or "catch" a whore from another pimp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: To Follow the Action: A Player's Glossary | 1/11/1971 | See Source »

...pull one's coat to. To teach. A novice pimp learning from a master expresses his gratitude by saying, "Thanks for pulling my coat to it, brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: To Follow the Action: A Player's Glossary | 1/11/1971 | See Source »

Scorpio had often found himself troubled about Aquarius' novels, however. What visions of damnation, for instance, smoked in Aquarius' head when in The Deer Park he had Marion the pimp say, "No one ever loved anyone except for the rare bird, and the rare bird loved an idea or an idiot child." Could it be that Aquarius, the nice Jewish boy from Long Branch, N.J., and Brooklyn, N.Y., the kid who loved model airplanes and went to Harvard to study aeronautical engineering-could it be that the youth committed to the ideals of democratic socialism and the young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reflections on a Star-Crossed Aquarius | 1/11/1971 | See Source »

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