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...tidy lawn, even though it did have cockroaches in the kitchen and rats in the basement. Yet the gamy life of the ghetto was only half a block away. Recalls Aretha's brother Cecil, 28: "The people that you saw who had any measure of success were the pimp and the hustler, the numbers man and the dope man. Aretha knew what they were all about without having to meet them personally." Her mother deserted the family when Aretha was six and died four years later, two shocks that deeply scarred the shy, withdrawn girl. "After her mama died," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: LADY SOUL SINGING IT LIKE IT IS | 6/28/1968 | See Source »

...cats, they live in "the land of no holds barred"-a grey, womanless room in a grey, womanless house. The father (Paul Rogers) is a bull walrus spuming through yellowed tusks against the dying of his authority. The older brother, Lenny (Ian Holm), is a dapper spiv of a pimp with a lively, corrupt intelligence. Joey (Terence Rigby), the younger, is a dub of a prizefighter, a would-be champion with a chimpanzee brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Land of No Holds Barred | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

...Cambridge version of Teresa Brewer. The BBC news coolly reports that an H-bomb has been dropped on Ireland and asks public-spiritedly: "Would anyone who saw this accident report to the local authorities?" Hendra reminisces about one of his ancestors, a 16th century poet known as "the Scarlet Pimp,"" who composed the immortal ballad beginning, "Foftly, foftly, blowf the gale,/ Upon my miftreff bofom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedians: Foftly, Foftly, Blowf the Gale | 11/11/1966 | See Source »

...movie has all these things and plenty more. It has Color by Deluxe, some charmingly scummy urbs and suburbs, a hilarious "sitdown orgy for 40," and a bunch of top bananas: Phil Silvers cast as a pious pimp who combines worship and whoreship, Jack Gilford playing a collector of "erotic pottery," the late Buster Keaton doing a deadpan dad with a somewhat unusual problem: "My daughter is a eunuch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Erotic Errors | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

...Author Behn, a onetime off-Broadway producer who served for two years in the U.S. Army's counter-intelligence corps, cops out. The result is a pop horror comic about a mission to Moscow by a team of freelance operatives: a sadistic rapist, a dehumanized naval officer, a pimp, a homosexual, and a beautiful young girl who is not only an electronics genius but can tie knots in a string with her toes. The best thing about the book is that readers get a slight sporting chance. After Chapter 4, they are offered a choice of breaking a paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Out of the Cold War | 8/26/1966 | See Source »

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