Word: whores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...extraordinary skill and imagination that the author lavishes upon the title figure, Dr. Michael Cobb. Cobb is a pander in the form of a society osteopath. Yet Cassill manages to present him sympathetically as a high-souled practitioner of black magic and sexual adept who trains a young whore to take part in a serious, occult effort to persuade the rocket-rattling minister to make love...
...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...
...grasp of madness is frightening, Lise appears to suffer from an almost textbook urban psychosis. She is set about with a clutter of literary devices: the contrast between the repressed North and the chaotic South, the carefully anonymous settings, the intrusive hints that Lise is either like a street whore or a bride on her way to a blood wedding. Lise has, in effect, created and peopled her own demonic world, but the author has externalized it for her rather too efficiently...
...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...