Word: whore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pace picks up slightly as Scott leaves Michigan to search for his daughter. One might expect the urgency of the street to break through the tough, austere, Calvinist exterior of the man, but Scott slogs dully through whore houses, unmoved except by frustration...
...enormous page one photograph of Gacy chained to his jail bed. The guard who sold the photo to the paper was fired. On New Year's Eve, both papers ran special sections. The Sun-Times's "Weird World of John Wayne Gacy" featured an interview with a teenage male whore named Jaime who remembered seeing Gacy cruise the gay bars on the Near North Side. Gacy once picked him up in a place called Bughouse Square, and Jaime barely escaped with his life. After such homosexual encounters, the paper reported, Gacy would head uptown to a favored working-class...
...other segments, Beverly Hills starts to look like comedy nirvana. The movie's biggest laughs occur when Walter Matthau, as a square married man, wakes up one morning to find a whore passed out in his bed. His wife (Elaine May) arrives, and what to do? The ensuing low farce is Simon's variation on James Thurber's The Unicorn in the Garden, and the team of Matthau and May roast an old burlesque chestnut to a perfect crisp...
...theater that first housed Shakespeare's plays was not merely named the Globe, it was the globe. Under its famous open roof humanity passed in review. It was a whore and a fool and a murderer and it laughed; it was a virgin The theater that first housed Shakespeare's plays was not merely named the Globe, it was the globe. Under its famous open roof humanity passed in review. It was a whore and a fool and a murderer and it laughed; it was a virgin and a king and a samaritan and it mourned...
...Filipino base commander, local court jurisdiction over U.S. personnel accused of crimes against Filipinos and, certainly, the not small matter of rent (why should the bases be rent free?), TIME obfuscated the Philippine position by delving into how much money is being infused into the Philippine economy by whore-patronizing American sailors. Prostitution is a problem that knows no national boundaries and indeed, like journalism, is one of the world's oldest professions...