Word: whores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...question to ask about a book. My book ends with him taking off...ah...and I can live with the thing like that. I don't know about the reading public. I leave with him getting out of the hospital without being either captured or stabbed by Nately's whore...
...indifferently. The woman shouted, writing on the ground....I was beside myself....'Can't four men handle a woman,'I said, 'must they beat her?' I was impressed with the apathy of the spectators. They were ordinary people. 'Don't get angry, Mister,' someone said, 'she's a whore'....The woman was obviously now going through a fit of hysterics. As they were taking her to the police station...she would sit down on the ground every five steps, scream and lift up her clothes, revealing her nakedness, to show the bruises. 'I'm a prostitute, is that why they...
...Long Island housewife and mother of two, practices realism at its best. Her novel is not a direct imprint of close personal experience. It is an imaginative act that contemplates the world without the lachrymose bitterness that made an anxious Hemingway demean life by calling death an old whore...
...enveloped the events of the past month, the presidency has taken on a color that in the past was found only in places such as bars and brothels. The deep wrinkles of a drunkard's face, the foul language of a brawny bartender, the sad eyes of a wasted whore are replaced by the president's level gaze, by the only glimmer from the chandeliers in the inaugural hall, by Martin Lefkowitz as the munches on a chicken wing in a park outside the White House, muttering, "Yep, Ford's gonna be all right...
...intersperses the dull story with irrelevant but delightfully hectic scenes at the bordello. Salome, Tunin's contact in the city (played with spirit and finesse by Mariangela Melato), is blessed with all the wit and energy he lacks. With the tough elegance and self-assurance of a top whore in a classy joint, she adds a crucial dimension of sensuality and realism. Salome's bawdy repartees offer Wertmuller just the link she needs to trigger off comic scenes. Her vivid style is distinctly reminiscent of Fellini (with whom she worked on "8 1/2"), especially in portraying the banter and gossip...