Word: whore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...looking," he tells a statuesque model of a girl (Jane Birkin), "for someone who doesn't exist." She responds, not seeming to mind as his inspiration falters and he becomes flustered. She is used to worse, Nicholas shortly and angrily discovers, because she is a whore...
...smiled at. "Kill a frog or toad, dry him out completely in the sun . . . among his bones will be one that resembles a fish hook ... To win your intended lover, hook the fishbone into his clothing. . ." Faith Cross, a backwoods believer, journeys to Chicago and becomes first a wholehearted whore, then an adipose housewife, anesthetized by hair spray and appliance hum, then, cast off and pregnant, the victim of a ghetto fire Finally back in Georgia, withered and maimed, she completes the seven ages of black woman (something like this seems to be in the author's mind...
What forces the crisis is Bob's imminent departure. He has invited his occasional lover of the past few years, a middle-aged alcoholic whore, to join him for a farewell celebration with Jake, and while they wait, the comedy routines that have sustained their relationship for five years finally begin to wear thin. Jake sees clearly for the first time that Bob is self-centered to the point of being totally blind to the people he is closest to. He makes an issue of Bob's easy and careless unconcern for truth, and in the process exposes a long...
...whole production takes on a high-schoolish air, but this usually doesn't last too long. The tone and content of the production sometimes approaches that blend of the cute, the childishly obscene and the genuinely funny that must have been present in '30s House productions with titles like Whore and Piece...
Goya, in the 80 prints that follow--most of which are in the MFA show--has depicted every evil, depraved and grotesque instinct of his society. An old woman says a rosary over a whore primping to ply her trade. A well-dressed, aristocratic woman steels teeth from a swinging corpse for use in a love potion. A group of desolate-looking monks sit drinking around a table--to this group, Goya has given a double-entendre title: "Estan Calientes" which means both "they're hot" and "they are in heat...