Word: pimped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...often untruthful. The New Journalism, like the tabloids which preceded it, seizes upon scandal and intrigue with total lack of discrimination, not because it is desirable that the truth should out, but because scandal sells. New York magazine, the flagship of the New Journalism, seems to have profiled every pimp and prostitute in the City of New York at least once: it serves as the Daily News for the swingers...
...pimp," he guffawed across the newsroom. "You must have really smelled like vomit this morning." Powers was referring to the true confessions of a week ago in which I revealed a marked inclination to drink and regurgitate after Dartmouth losses...
...labeled Baraka "a poverty pimp. The black kid who looks up to Superfly, the white who feels guilty at his comfort, you petty bourgois black students who came to a bullshit place like this [Harvard]--you created Leroi Jones," he said
...police, women pimps mean less trouble than their male counterparts because they confine themselves to pimping, while men often pursue a variety of criminal interests ranging from theft to assault and even murder. Prostitutes themselves do not necessarily fare better when exploited by females rather than males. Just as prostitutes keep their male pimps in flashy suits and opulent cars, they deck out their female bosses in expensive clothing and glittering jewelry. True, the female procurer may keep house and provide a semblance of family life for her whore. But like a male pimp, the female sometimes fakes affection...
Hamburg police recount the sad tale of a prostitute named Erika and a pimp named Helga. For two hard-working years, they saved money to go into business as antique dealers. Then Helga ran off with the money. Heartbroken-and furious-Erika went to the police and charged Helga with pimping, but the case was dismissed because the German penal code recognizes only men as procurers. That legal bias will be corrected some time next fall, when a new law will make pimping by either sex a criminal offense. Small comfort for Erika, however. Her once beloved Helga has already...