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Word: whore (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...survey each watched 12 to 16 hours of prime-time TV this spring. According to Wildmon, they were instructed on how to record the frequency of "sexually suggestive comments, inside or outside marriage," of profanity such as "God," "hell" and "damn," of crude language such as "crap," "horny" and "whore," and of incidents of violence, which was defined as "attempts to do bodily harm to a person." Judgments were necessarily subjective. An objectionable "sexual-intercourse scene" occurred whenever the monitor was "left with the opinion that sexual intercourse occurred," on screen or off, inside or outside marriage. Monitors were instructed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Kind of Ratings War | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

...face, but they don't believe that she does since "Yallas don't come to being black natural-like. They have to choose it and most don't choose it." She is a vicious thorn piercing Black men's imaginations, a "tar baby side-of-the-road whore trap...

Author: By Eve M. Troutt, | Title: Ghosts in Black | 4/14/1981 | See Source »

...throwing each other over, punching each other up, selling each other out. Elvis Costello has played a lot of clubs these last few years; after an angry, violent American tour, morsels of America sizzled in his brainpan, and in Get Happy!! Elvis thrust his middle finger up her dumb whore B-Movie hole, the music as hyper-energized, as fractious and scrappy as the country itself. It was a smashing, reverberating disc that some of us thought would go through the roof critically and commercially. Alas. audiences and rock critics can't digest so much. They prefer two-or-three...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Something of a Middlebrow | 4/2/1981 | See Source »

...better and you get worse, but you can never know if it matters. O Crimson, you are future and you are past, and your present is a fleeting spark for us; you are a great friendly whore who takes us for our one-night four-year stand and barely stirs when we depart, for the line outside you door is never-ending...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: 14 Plympton St. | 3/7/1981 | See Source »

Lapotaire renders Piaf, the diminutive poet-songstress of the pre-dawn city blues, with matchless psychological fidelity. She gives us Piaf, whom the French called the Sparrow, as an eagle in courage. She makes us know Piaf soul-seared, the Paris gutter urchin, the cagey whore whom the world came to hold in the embrace of fame but who could not keep her own life from seeping through her splayed fingers, at 47 in 1963 spent by alcohol, morphine, sex and cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Lucifer's Toy | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

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