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...that looks like a pillbox hat out of Zsa Zsa's closet, Kid (Christopher Reid) swipes audience sympathy from the get-go. Now he sits in the principal's office after a cafeteria fight with evil dude Stab (Paul Anthony). Seems Stab has branded Kid's dead mother a whore. The white principal is befuddled. "Why in God's name," she asks the perp, "did you call his mother a garden tool?" Ho', that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Doing The Bright Thing | 3/26/1990 | See Source »

...like people living next to Auschwitz who said they didn't know. If you had told me about this a couple of months ago, I'd say it was American propaganda. It's as if you were suddenly told that your grandmother was a thief, your mother was a whore, your father was a drug dealer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Voices Of East Berlin | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

...Coetzee went public in the weekly newspaper Vrye Weekblad with a story of how he headed a police hit squad between 1980 and 1982 that carried out at least nine assassinations, including that of Mxenge, as well as numerous bombings and abductions. "I was in the heart of the whore," declared Coetzee, who accused senior police officers of authorizing assassinations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Probing the Hit Squads | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

...including three council members, were charged with taking bribes. In a place where millions of dollars change hands every day, the mayor is accused of accepting a paltry $6,000 from an undercover agent to let electric passenger carts run along the Boardwalk. "This town is like an aging whore," says Carver. "Disrespect me, but give me something -- just give me something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atlantic City, New Jersey Boardwalk Of Broken Dreams | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...instruments of male sexuality. (The above are corollaries of this fundamental assumption.) Women who do not compliantly offer up their bodies to the male sexual appetite are "frigid." BUT, it is important that sex be for his satisfaction only. Women who control and enjoy their own sexuality are "whores." This leads to a rather complicated emotional response to female sexuality--ambivalence as to whether there is a desire for "virgin" and/or "whore," but objectification in either case, leaving no roon for normal, healthy sexual response on the part of the woman. Thus the dorm from which Jenny emerges, demonstratively glad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Love Story? | 9/22/1989 | See Source »

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