Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bathing cap trick in her role...
...Mamoulian. Mamoulian seemed to be experimenting constantly. His most accepted successes were on the stage (he directed the original stage version of "Porgy and Bess" for example) but his pictures exude a creative excitement that seems to say to the pedestrian studio craftsman, "Well boys, here's a little trick you might pick up on." The opening of Love Me Tonight, the slow rousing waking of a city from sleep, is one of the sunniest, most cheerful and nonchalant pieces of virtuousity you're likely to find anywhere. Mamoulian is witty too--his "Isn't It Romantic" sequence of mounting...
McCall fed the ball to Tennis, and the big attackman came through again, notching the last tally of his hat trick to knot the score...
Deitch has woven a tapestry of wonderful footage of women talking about themselves. Prostitutes explain that they first turned tricks because they were starving. A clinical psychologist and lesbian talks about the discrimination she has suffered in her profession. An aging housewife sits on a park bench under a gray sky, and shows us the rag dolls she has made and sold for 25 years. Prostitutes in the San Francisco Women's Jail sit around a plastic table, smoke cigarettes, and say bitterly that they will have to turn another trick as soon as they get out, just to feed...
...women the most oppressive book ever written." She smiles almost proudly then and says, "Hookers escape the double standard," adding simply, "and they get punished for it." The prostitutes sitting around the jailhouse coffee table know all about the pro-male bias of the prostitution laws; "the trick is never prosecuted," they point out, but one of them adds that she doesn't see anything illegal in an exchange between two consenting adults. Oppression has not made revolutionaries out of these women. They are not asking to overhaul the system, but to be allowed to ply their trade within...