Word: whoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, she was repeatedly cast in German films more or less as Shirley Tempelhof, the cardboard princess. Determinedly, she has changed all that. Last week in London, dressed in tights and high black stockings, she began work in Carl Foreman's The Victors as a cabaret violinist turned whore, playfully kicking up her heels and pulling her tights smooth over her alert backside. Spurred by competition, she may create the greatest whore since the fall of the Ptolomies. Mercouri and Moreau are in The Victors as well...
...sympathy and repulsion; he manages to suggest a worthless hood who might have been a gifted contributor to another society-not a nice chap gone wrong, but rather a congenitally wrong one who might have gone right. Because this sort of role is so easy as a cliche (the whore with the 14-carat heart), it is extraordinarily difficult to do honestly. Courtenay does it with an honesty so ruthless that it makes the film profoundly depressing...
Like the play, the picture does not rigorously develop a plot. It establishes a milieu, a geography of moral failure, an ultimate, absolute flophouse. And in this flophouse it engenders characters as straw breeds lice: a smalltime crook, a sentimental whore, a police spy who regularly gets beaten by his wife, an alcoholic actor, a slugnutty wrestler, a landlord and landlady like two scorpions in a bottle, and watching them all a funny little old man who laughs and laughs and shakes his head and says, "Oh, the way people live...
...lodging of Nanny, who by this time conducted her bed games professionally. "I told her the strength of my purse," Hickey recalls, "and proposed going to the play, which she consenting to, there was I a hopeful sprig of 13, stuck up in a green box, with a blazing whore." The caning he received for the escapade did not discourage...
...London's nobs and snobs and captivating its kept women. His companions ranged from "Blasted Bet" Wilkinson, a "sad profligate girl" who was an ornament of Wetherby's, an inn where Hickey watched a battle between two half-naked women (he did not approve), to "Silver Tail," whore-in-residence at a sporting tavern, and Fanny Temple, the jeweled mistress of an elderly townsman...