Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pinhead in this case is a young aristoclot called Freddy Widgeon. Poor Freddy. He has been enrolled by his wealthy, tyrannical uncle, Lord Blicester (pronounced Blister), as "a wage slave in a solicitor's firm, as near to being an office boy as makes no matter." Freddy is limply determined to escape to Kenya and become a "coffee king," but he has to earn a few beans before he can plant any, and this involves 246 pages of wild but cheerful complications. Among them: a girl named Sally, whom Freddy considers "the biggest thing since sliced bread," a lady...
...midst of Moscow's hard-breathing hopes, Peking ground out the same old sour tune. "Now another loyal slave of U.S. monopoly capital, Kennedy of the Democratic Party, is to become President," rasped the Red Chinese radio. Obviously, Moscow's great expectations are not shared by Peking...
...dreary, working-class square crowded with Algerians. At night, the square and the nearby alleys blossom into neon brilliance, offer to any passer-by probably the tawdriest and most expansive display of nude female flesh the world has seen since the passing of the Babylonian slave market. Prostitutes prowl its sidewalks; vendors of "feelthy movies" pluck at every passing sleeve. Martini's kingdom ranged from the velvet-lined, expensive Shéhérazade to the Moulin Rouge, mecca of U.S. tourists. Up for grabs are such deviate haunts as Madame Arthur's, where a pretty girl...
SPARTACUS. Director Stanley Kubrick and Scriptwriter Dalton Trumbo, in adapting the tragedy of the heroic slave to Super-Technirama 70 and the various other disadvantages of a $12 million budget, have managed to achieve that happy contradiction in cinema terms, an intelligent spectacle...
...good deal of Attic bawdry is left out. Graves mentions that Queen Omphale once bought Heracles as a slave, but does not add that Heracles was the Queen's lover and that the two of them deceived the lustful Pan by dressing Heracles in one of Omphale's gowns and decoying the god into a darkened grotto. Such goatly matters as remain are dealt with by an adroit blending of taste and truth, e.g., "Demeter had been rather wild as a girl, and nobody could remember the name of Persephone's father; probably some country god married...