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...ancestors were wiser. A young man would take a girl out, give her the bit with flowers and candy and dinner dates and dances, kiss her good night, then go to a whorehouse. In a whorehouse he was fairly safe. It was run by a madam, not a pimp. He wouldn't be robbed, and he wouldn't be likely to get syphilis, for the madam would want to keep up the reputation of her house...
Sexual Xenophobia. Peyret is quick to explain that he wants nothing like the pimp-controlled houses of yore. Civil servants would run them. For the girls, it would be a job, not a way of life -or a home; the girls would not live in the houses. "The main thing," says Peyret, "is that they would be supervised by local or regional health and sanitation authorities...
...class portrayals and clear ideological perspectives in favor of examining more fundamental spiritual maladies, defined by the banality of everday existence. Tod Hackett of The Day of the Locust, recently graduated from Yale, is no less caught up in the Hollywood dream factory than his pan-handler and pimp friends. West grew to condemn not Americans but American ways and manners, evident in the leathery rationalizations of business leaders, as well as the radical polities of many of his friends...
Most of the film has the quality of dislocation. It is lit like a Wyeth painting and informed with the lunatic logic of Magritte. Only twice does it grow didactic. In an Italian whorehouse, 19-year-old Nately (Art Garfunkel) confronts a 107-year-old pimp. The scene is photographed narrative, almost word-for-word from the book's symbolic and simplistic confrontation: weary but supposedly immortal Italy v. vigorous but naive and supposedly doomed America. When the boy accuses the ancient of shameless opportunism, the centenarian defends himself with the ultimate weapon: age. "I'll be 20 in January...
...asked Spider if he'd be up for a beer party. Spider didn't want to admit that he was such a pimp he didn't like beer, so he said...