Word: whore
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...taken over one of the last of the big spreads, and Monte and Chet hire on for want of more respectable work. Chet eventually gives it all up to wed the hardware-store widow, but Monte won't relinquish his ways even for the golden-hearted, dross-tongued whore (Jeanne Moreau) he loves. By the time the film ends, just about everyone has been killed off except Marvin and Director Wil liam Fraker, who might well have been the first target...
...sure, Brel does occasionally sound like an apprentice Browning-which isn't necessarily bad. In "Next" he has a bitter man protest how he lost his virginity in an army whore house...
...mobilize a group of New York City liberationists to stand on street corners and whistle at construction workers, complimenting them on their biceps and hardhats. And street confrontations can anger women like N. O. W.'s Ti-Grace Atkinson to remark that the only honest woman is a whore: at least she gets paid for walking the streets...
...denote loss of potency, status or life. Women in the plays are almost always presented in either the image of the "mother/madonna/housewife" or the "whore/maenad." Sometimes they merge, as in the character of Ruth who, in The Homecoming, leaves her husband and three children to become a very businesslike whore in the employ of her husband's father and brothers...
...that an artist knows he's a liar. Making sense out of existence is a dangerous game: the temptations of Conviction, on the one hand, and utter, shapeless Alienation, on the other, are usually seductive enough to deprive piety of content and realism of form. "Spit in a whore's face and she'll tell you it's raining," goes an old Yiddish proverb. What to do about reality seems to have become a problem of choice, and a film-maker who suspects that both documentary and story are lies isn't likely to respect the concept of entertainment, either...