Word: whoring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...serious danger of falling asleep over this lame and longwinded assemblage of "short" (if only they were shorter) stories. The first of these, "Mrs. Fortescue" succeeds quite possibly by shock value alone. An angry adolescent discovers that an old woman living in the apartment upstairs is a whore, whom he promptly-if I may quote-"I think the appropriate word here is screws." Lessing spares the reader no detail of the act. It is horrible and pathetic, and apparently the only way the boy knows to achieve adult status, both in his own eyes and in those of his idolized...
Many Norwegians, less sexually liberated than their Swedish neighbors, were scandalized by Liv's unmarried motherhood. They harassed her in much the same way as Americans had harassed Ingrid Bergman 22 years before. Letters came in denouncing her as a sinner and a whore. Some told her that she should take the baby into the woods and leave it; others kindly suggested that she should kill herself as well. The Lutheran Church refused to allow the baby to be baptized. Liv went on Norwegian TV to defend her action in an emotion-charged statement. Though she still believes...
ATLANTIC CITY IN THE FALL is like a whore house on Sunday morning, the denuded neon playgrounds of merchandising America. It is the ghost town of the Penthouse pleasure seekers stinking with the excrements of honky-tonk commercialism. The King of Marvin Gardens, written by Jacob Brackman and directed by Bob Rafelson, tortures Atlantic City's dying glory into a monopoly game of cultural dimensions, the bankrupt dead-end of the American dream...
...zonah! Ben zonah!" The chant at the soccer match between Tel Aviv Hapoel and Jerusalem Hapoel was not a cheer for the home team but an angry denunciation of the referees. Though the epithet means "Son of a whore!" in Hebrew, the referees were more relieved than offended; after all, the abuse was merely verbal...
...attempts to dramatize either the inglorious life or the tarnished legend of William H. Bonney-otherwise known as Billy the Kid. Dirty Little Billy, however, is the first to deal with Billy while he is still literally a kid, a punk adolescent just learning to shoot, to booze, to whore and to stay up past midnight. Billy is an eager pupil...