Word: whore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Orleans, Pretty Baby, and Jodie Foster in Martin Scorsese's contemporary shocker, Taxi Driver. Each movie caused a mild outcry, but the general reaction was nervous acceptance. The phenomenon they dealt with was real enough; as Malle took to pointing out, you can hire a twelve-year-old whore any night on Manhattan's Eighth Avenue...
...meets Rango--an artist who lives in a gypsy cart and is big and hairy. He takes her to his wagon, where she commits the grave faux pas of reaching for his pants, which makes him angry. She questions him and he says, "You make the gesture of a whore." He caresses her for days but refuses to make love to her. "Hilda felt that the female in her was being taught to submit to the male, to obey his wishes. She felt that he was still punishing her for the gesture she had made..." Finally one day she breaks...
...told again, by the alleged "creator of the female language for sexuality" that the sexually aggressive woman is a whore and that to be truly female is to be a masochist? For the time being, God help us, we're better off with Playgirl...
...than he explains why they exist or what exactly they are doing. Maldonado is the only three-dimensional protagonist--a confused middle-aged stud who resembles a Velasco painting. Maldonado's triad of women--the seductive Mary, loyal Rebecca and unattainable Sarah--fill the traditional female novelistic roles of whore, mother and virgin. Maldonado's purposeless orders come from two spies, the nationless Timon and the clove-smelling Lebanese Ayub, and a Mexican economics professor Bernstein and the bullying Director General. The only thing which binds all characters is their obsession with Mexican oil. Oil permeates the entire novel, motivating...
...quite that far, but he doesn't mind being called a "popcorn" director. "It's what I've chosen to do," he says. "I like to see people jump out of their seats. In that sense, I'm as much of a whore as the vaudevillians were, and proud...