Word: whore
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...written between 1927 and 1948, the author goes about his business with sour skill, and with one or two lapses in which symbolism becomes ludicrous. Typical of the collection is a story about a young man, neither bad nor good but bored and alone, who meets two sisters, both whores, in a bar. The older sister balks at taking the young man back to her home ("Home is a sacred place," she says) and agrees only after a promise of additional lire. But during the tram ride to their destination, the younger girl chatters bawdily about her trade. When they...
According to director Michael B. Ritchie '60, "record breaking crowds and a 320 per cent return on the original investment" prompted the staff to extend its run. Numerous difficulties, including that fact that Maria Livanos, who plays a "cut-rate whore," has run out of 1 o'clock permissions, precluded additional performances during reading period...
...Harry the Greyhound, and madams like Mad Margareta, 58, who employs 30 girls in one house bordering a canal and owns five other brothels. "She is the capitalist of the district," said the police. The pimps and madams were accused of accepting hippen money (hip is Dutch slang for whore...
...about the trapper who aimed a kick at what he thought was his neighbor's dog one night, connected with the rump of a polar bear. It is a society of rough humor; in-transit passengers at Frobisher blush to see the yellow de Havilland Otter labeled "Arctic Whore." Housewives soon learn to adjust to the rigors of the North. They fly the family laundry outdoors all winter, taking care not to break the arms and legs off the frozen long underwear. During the long winter nights, families get together like people anywhere to play bridge, drink beer, listen...
...have changed in Streetcar, I'm afraid the protagonist of the play has not. This is not Stanley's play nor ever will be, and to try and make it so by removing every trace of grace and nobility from Blanche, leaving her as little more than a drunken whore, is hardly fair to Mr. Williams. Once this is done, the play is no longer Blanche's tragedy, nor does it become Stanley's triumph, but rather an extended sort of fertility rite. "Procreative power" without some sort of intellectual substantiation does not make an exciting theatre, I'm afraid...