Word: pimped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pimp Squad. In retaliation two weeks ago, a judge in the city's criminal court took the unprecedented action of holding two alleged hookers without bail, explaining that "the midtown area was inundated with prostitution." The girls received some unexpected support: Women's Liberationists quickly picketed the courthouse, protesting female exploitation. But the resultant publicity could not have been better for Mayor John Lindsay, who was at the same time launching the city's ritual annual crackdown on the sidewalk sirens...
...with cameras to capture the girls in the act of soliciting. There were also efforts to discourage, through arrests, the live sex shows that complement the streetside spectacle, and some talk, mostly just that, of prosecuting "Johns," as the girls call their customers. Finally, the police established a special "pimp squad" to tackle the problem at one of its sources. Faced with harassment from all sides, the birds took flight...
...Homecoming is a brutal play. Pinter forces you to laugh at a group of people who are so miserable, so maladjusted, so sick, that they are grotesquely funny, Max, the retired butcher, is an ugly old lecher who retaliates for the abuse heaped on him by his wealthy pimp of a son by browbeating his wimpy brother, a sixty-three-year-old chauffeur. Into the mixture comes Teddy, Max's oldest son, a professor at an American university, who seems at first to be the only normal member of the family. But Teddy lets his wife go whoring with both...
Sweet mack. A sugar pimp, one who is educated, charming and nonviolent...
Scorpio had often found himself troubled about Aquarius' novels, however. What visions of damnation, for instance, smoked in Aquarius' head when in The Deer Park he had Marion the pimp say, "No one ever loved anyone except for the rare bird, and the rare bird loved an idea or an idiot child." Could it be that Aquarius, the nice Jewish boy from Long Branch, N.J., and Brooklyn, N.Y., the kid who loved model airplanes and went to Harvard to study aeronautical engineering-could it be that the youth committed to the ideals of democratic socialism and the young...