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...unblessed poor: booze, bickering and sex. Grandpa belts the brandy. Mum and Dad fight whenever Dad isn't swiving a neighbor lady, and Mum isn't being hauled off to the cooler for disorderly conduct. Their son is an ex-pug, his friend is a pimp, and so it goes. Unfortunately, the play does not go-either toward social comment or domestic disaster, or toward that uncommon probing of the commonplace, the drab and the degraded that unveils an expanse of spirit in a waste of shame. All that remains is slice-of-life realism, which an inept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: It Won't Do, Luv | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

...Rotgut," a word that sounds as if it were coined no later than Prohibition, meant much the same thing to Johnson; it was "bad beer" in his day. A Hollywood flesh peddler, i.e., actor's agent, has a philological ancestor in Johnson's London, where a pimp was a fleshmonger. "Bum" Dr. Johnson defined with magisterial simplicity as "the part on which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Harmless Drudge | 3/29/1963 | See Source »

...bright, young, agreeable, on-the-rise public relations man--a role he played in The Apartment. The requirements of his job lead him to compromise his principles, as in The Apartment. "I want to be a public relations man," he tells his girlfriend (Lee Remick) glumly, "not a pimp...

Author: By Henry Schwarz, | Title: Wine and Roses | 3/26/1963 | See Source »

...clients were usually up for murder, but he also defended policemen about to be sacked, prostitutes faced with deportation, and an old pal plainly guilty of defrauding a bank. After one acquittal, Rogers snarled to his client, who came to thank him: "Get away from me, you slimy pimp; you're guilty as hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Criminal's Best Friend | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

...counterfeit comes to a toothless loan shark, a loudmouthed used-car salesman ("The all-time jerk-he belongs in the National Bureau of Standards") and a fatcat brothelkeeper whose place of business has been shut down by the police. "Private enterprise," the pimp complains indignantly, "is being stifled." The salesman, a man with $20-$20 vision, sees what might be called a gulden opportunity for creative capitalism: to compete with the Dutch government in the production of currency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gulden Opportunity | 8/17/1962 | See Source »

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