Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recalled. After she was arrested for prostitution, she and her pimp flew to New York, where she worked for 16 months. She collected at least $100,000, of which she saved only $800. She was arrested 42 times for prostitution and once for grand larceny ("It was a trick who wanted his money back") but never served a day in jail. When she tried to return home, the pimp beat her so badly that she was hospitalized...
...violence and robberies associated with prostitution in the Combat Zone are the obvious examples. Weeks says she worked in the zone for years but now fears going there. She describes her experiences as a prostitute with an air of professionalism. "We used to take the trick home and bring him back to the bar," instead of operating in dingy strip joints and rooming houses, Weeks says. She also says she and other women were careful about whom they accepted as customers--"I like to look a man over. If he takes care of his shoes, he takes care...
...hadn't seen him having a pint for some time. And the barber stopped cutting my hair and looked up at the ceiling." These repetitions may charm at first as a rendition of the maundering heard in Irish pubs; stretched out over a wad of pages, the trick grows thin. Even the little poems that conclude chapters seem limp: "And/ I loved/ Her." When Lennon and McCartney wrote something like that, they provided music...
Rice then turned the trick himself, beating the Princeton defense at 22:16 of the opening period to put Cornell in the driver's seat...
...stalked down to Dillon last week, I was all set to tell Cleary not to be such a big baby over one mistake, to give us a break like he gave The Globe. I figured this approach, along with a backrub and a new Volare, would do the trick...