Word: pimped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unsurprisingly, the Secret Service proves too much for him to handle. He heads to a whorehouse in order to rescue a teeny-bopper hooker (superbly played by Jodie Foster) and guns down a pimp and his friends. There is a nice irony that this outburst of extraordinarily gory violence turns an individual who was within a hair-trigger length of being a national horror into a local hero...
...character is defined by his acceptance of this choice, by his willingness to do anything in order to live. As a low level Mafioso in pre-war Naples, known as Pasqualino Settebellezze (Seven Beauties) because of his inexplicable success with women despite his unattractiveness, he kills the local pimp who has corrupted his less than pristine sister, in the defense of family honor. Having failed to dispose of the body undetected, Pasqualino must choose between honor and survival; animated by his will to live, he pleads insanity. Ultimately, his desire to reenter the world he left behind drives him from...
During an economic slump crime is one of the few means of maintaining a decent standard of living--whether that crime is petty theft or the more glamorous domains of the pimp and the dealer. Dealing starts in high school or earlier. Some students can afford cars before they are old enough to obtain driver's licenses. The game has its risks, but excitement adds to the glamour. Some win; 17 and 18 years olds can be seen confidently wheeling Fleetwood Cadillacs and Lincoln Continentals through the city streets. Some lose; an acquaintance of one of the authors was murdered...
...rich supporter rewrote his will to cancel a $1 million bequest; a school official received a hate letter addressed "Dear Communist Pimp." The reason? A black-studies director at Claremont Colleges near Los Angeles had hired Communist Angela Davis as a part-time lecturer. Said Davis, back in a classroom for the first time since U.C.L.A. fired her in 1970: "All I was interested in was teaching a nice, small, quiet seminar. I really didn't want it to become a carnival-type situation." So as soon as she got through her first class...
...emaciated, terminally-ill racketeer returns from a ten-year prison term to tell his protege, a pimp and bar owner, that he is just another victim of "Charlie fever"--"we couldn't only pick up the good things about white men, we couldn't just be men, no, we had to take on the bad parts, the hustling, the rackets, the big cars and fine clothes." This emphasis pervades even the moments of comic relief provided by a lanky, effiminate short-order chef who wants to be a classical dancer--he takes lessons from a white...