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About halfway through The Threepenny Opera last night, Susan Channing walked out onto Aggassiz stage to sing. She plays Jenny--Lotte Lenya's old part. She is supposed to be a tough whore, and she she looks like a kewpie doll. She has a sweet, smooth voice that certainly doesn't suggest here upbringing. She isn't wearing very much either...

Author: By Harrison Young, | Title: The Threepenny Opera | 4/23/1965 | See Source »

Some chanted: "Viva el General! Viva el General!" Others cried: "Thief! Assassin! Son of a whore!" As police held back the crowd of 3,000, the armored van carrying Marcos Pérez Jiménez, 50, from his jail cell pulled up in front of Caracas' Supreme Court building. It had been more than seven years since the pudgy strongman was overthrown, and last week, after well-heeled exile in the U.S. and 19 not-too-austere months in Venezuelan prisons, Pérez Jiménez was finally being brought to trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Venezuela: P.J.'s Day in Court | 4/16/1965 | See Source »

Good luck, good luck, she is a whore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Grimm for Grownups | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

Good luck is a clever whore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Grimm for Grownups | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

...intends mainly to shock. (I"II admit it took a few minutes' chat with the naked Ginsberg to realize shock was hardly his goal.) Actually he finds it far more beautiful to sympathize--and this is how he treats most of what is ugly: the junkie, the leper, the whore, the queer...

Author: By Jacob R. Brackman, | Title: Allen Ginsberg | 11/24/1964 | See Source »

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