Word: whore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what they are saying, is difficult to fathom from the transcript of the tape. The jacket blurb again is helpful: "The Duchess, who has stolen 3,000 pills and a blood-pressure machine, is in the hospital; Ondine dresses in drag for an evening at the 'teenage whore house'; Taxine confesses to Ondine why she must hang out with Andy; the Duchess escapes from the hospital; Andy is analyzed in a hostile face-to-face confrontation with an admirer; Irving du Ball puts everyone down...
...Just relax," the nurse was saying. And the patient wanted to scream, "You whore, is that all you can say?" But instead, feeling her hand on his shoulder, he put his hand on hers, and relaxed...
...begun to rot beyond salvation. Gone were the dugouts, rickety frame sheds resembling the busstop shelters put along rural roads for school children. When it was in use, the park was probably the very worst in organized baseball. But now it seemed even sadder, like a washed-up whore...
...Malraux's La Voie Royale is driven to conquer nameless woman after nameless woman. The vision of writing that emerges from all this is somewhat masturbatory--the emphasis is not on understanding or even communication but on the need to dominate an outside implacability, like sleeping with a whore. Here again is Norman Mailer in Armies of the Night...
...lived and worked in Mexico for more than 20 years, is no Cervantes, his portrait of the tyrannized, superstition-racked land is as primitive as the peasants themselves. The film's best moments are miniatures: the grotesque love story of a dwarf and a whore; the sudden hysterics of women keening over a dying child; a love-haunted, plague-struck woman who is offered dirisxian aid but spurns the comfort of heaven to sigh for her lost lover. The stretches between such moments are bare and boring. Moreover, Bunuei's anticlerical polemics add up to nothing more than...