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Word: pimped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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 »

...running water, electric lights or garbage collection. Fortnight ago in Bogota, rats attacked a nine-month-old baby girl left alone on a pallet and nibbled her to death. The police rarely intervene. Brazil's favelas breed a notorious outlaw called the malandro-an all-purpose con man, pimp, thief and murderer. Of 5,000 country girls who emigrate to Santiago's slums each month, 500 end up in brothels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Americas: Slums in the Sun | 5/4/1962 | See Source »

...Paco, the hero of this flavorsome but uneven novella, is a foundling growing up in a brothel. The madam, the preposterous Doña Fili, is his presumptive mother. Blanca, one of the prostitutes, is his mistress-business and her moods permitting. Acting as a combination waiter and pimp, Paco has for spiritual adviser the fat priest Don Teodulo Vena, a sensualist given to topsy-turvy metaphysics, who may be Pace's father. Don Vena explains that he is a habitué of the villa because his body, which is part of God, demands it: "I act well with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Also Current: Mar. 2, 1962 | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

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