Word: whore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Theater staged Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night. To one performance came some church-sponsored teen-age girls. Grownups accompanying them were shocked at O'Neill's dialogue-no four-letter words, but a drizzle of expletives such as "goddam whore!" When they protested, Baylor's President Abner McCall ordered Baker to delete the profanity as "not in good taste for a church-related university...
During the first three scenes, Genet doesn't repeat himself enough to spoil his gamy jokes. If you aren't too squeamish, you will laugh when the Executioner (Frederick Q. Rice) reaches under the Whore-thief's dress and claims to have found a flashlight, bearskins and several pairs of socks in her "notorious Kangaroo pocket." If that kind of thing bothers you, stay home. There's plenty of it all the way through...
Playing opposite her as Carmen, Anne Lilley Kerr tackles a difficult role with intelligence. She manages to combine peasant piety and a whore's toughness in a complex and graceful way. John Wolfson (Chief of Police) is a fairly limited actor, but his part doesn't require much more than the two or three inflections he uses to good effect. He might, however, practice twirling a cigar some more before tonight...
...soon as he was elevated to the House of Lords he began making news. Stirred by the frequency by which he was solicited by streetwalkers on his strolls around London, the Earl conducted a personal investigation, triumphantly produced the statistic that one of every 544 British women was a whore. He fortified himself for a debate on drunken driving by deliberately imbibing too much to test his own reactions, earned himself the unofficial title "The Plastered Peer...
French Actor Alain Delon has helped too. He was her co-star in a 1961 Paris production of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore. They have been man and mistress for four years. She calls him "my engaged husband." Fond of the conjugal we, she likes to say "we have 3,000 records," or "we both love dogs," or "we are getting married after Christmas, probably in the country, or in the snow." Delon preserves snowy silence...