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Married. Betty Lawford, 44, stage and screen actress, famed as the luscious trollop who for a Broadway season languished in a foam bath in The Women; and Barry Buchanan, advertising and public relations executive; in Manhattan...
Mary Anne is the story of a high-class trollop, but the sex is discreetly offered between the lines instead of between the sheets. The heroine reaches the pinnacle of her profession when she becomes the darling of the Duke of York, second son of George III and commander in chief of the army. But her stipend is lean, and she fattens it by peddling army commissions. When her c. in c. cashiers her for conduct unbecoming a mistress, she avenges herself by causing one of the juiciest scandals ever aired in the House of Commons. Her noble victim manages...
...language. He enobled the New Englanders by showing their stoic but feeling response to disaster and death. Thomas has limited his action, and he must depend on speech for interpretation. As in a medieval morality play, his people are labeled and formularized, the baker is named Dai Bread, the trollop is Polly Garter. Many characters then become only undistinguished white keys upon which Thomas plays his song of humanity. And Captain Cat, though one of the three narrators and Thomas' central figure, is seldom more than a vacuum tube to broadcast the author's lyric commentary to his listeners. With...
...pious as to offend nobody. Fielding's heavy-handed satire proves only that he was better as novelist than as critic ... so perhaps we should be grateful that he missed the point of Pamela's wary innocence. That he would in the end prefer a tedious trollop like Amber, I very much doubt...
...What were men made of, that they could gaze at one girl with their souls in their eyes one moment-and turn as he was turning now, to the call of a blonde trollop?" Sabrina Home's bosom (a prominent feature of this novel) was agitated by this question whenever she saw Sir John Templar, in a bedroom across the street, "take a running jump and land ploof" alongside Molly Quin, his doxy. To make matters worse, Sabrina was married to old Sir William Wakefield, "a spent candle." How, Sabrina wondered, could she escape from Sir William and join...