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With age the animal grew fat, and kicked. "Portrait painting," he would burst out, "is a pimp's profession." He amused himself increasingly with watercolor landscapes, to which he gave a wet, soft and unconvincing glisten. .During World War I, Sargent sketched and painted at the front-an act of courage and enterprise which nevertheless achieved little. He had visited the U.S. on occasion, and never relinquished his U.S. citizenship. Toward the end he accepted a corn-mission to design murals for the rotunda and entrance hall of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, which he hoped would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Painter of Appearances | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

EARTH! flashes a neon sign on a certain street corner at Place Pigalle. On the sidewalk, streetwalkers nudge potential customers, and if business is slow or feet begin to hurt, they drop into a tiny cremerie for a cognac or an ice cream or a payoff to a pimp. Behind the bar is Odette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: To the Godless Poor | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...book itself deals principally with the sex lives of two couples--film director Charles Francis Eitel and his bed-mate Elena Esposito; and movie star Lulu Meyers and her lover Sergius O'Shaugnessy, the narrator of the book. But interwoven into the story are Marion Faye--a pimp at 21; a homosexual movie actor; and a number of other perverted characters. In Mailer's moral code, however, these latter characters are destroyed, for only those who can find companions of the opposite sex are favored by the author...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Norman Mailer's Theory of Life: No Possible Happiness Without Sex | 12/1/1955 | See Source »

...reason, perhaps, - is that the lovers are no longer the real story, but merely the required treacle in a seamy-side-of-Paris musical. The rest of Seventh Heaven is almost all tabasco - streets of Paris and streetwalkers and street dances, apaches and sailors, madams and midinettes, and a pimp who stops a bullet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Jun. 6, 1955 | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

...Walking-Around Money. Short told how he had helped Mickey think of a new name for Marguerite Cordova, a Puerto Rican hat-check girl who wanted Mickey to be her pimp. They decided on "Marie Corday," since Cordova "sounded too Spanish for the upper crust." Pat Thompson paid all his household bills, Short explained, and gave him $300 a week "walking-around money." Didn't that amount to male prostitution? asked Assistant District Attorney Anthony Liebler. "Well," snorted Short, "I'm a pretty good cook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Solid Gold Cad | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

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