Word: whoring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...denote loss of potency, status or life. Women in the plays are almost always presented in either the image of the "mother/madonna/housewife" or the "whore/maenad." Sometimes they merge, as in the character of Ruth who, in The Homecoming, leaves her husband and three children to become a very businesslike whore in the employ of her husband's father and brothers...
...that an artist knows he's a liar. Making sense out of existence is a dangerous game: the temptations of Conviction, on the one hand, and utter, shapeless Alienation, on the other, are usually seductive enough to deprive piety of content and realism of form. "Spit in a whore's face and she'll tell you it's raining," goes an old Yiddish proverb. What to do about reality seems to have become a problem of choice, and a film-maker who suspects that both documentary and story are lies isn't likely to respect the concept of entertainment, either...
...never quite sure whether I am one of the cinema's elder statesmen or just the oldest whore on the beat," said Joseph L. Mankiewicz last week, contemplating his 41 years in Hollywood. Mankiewicz, who won Academy Awards for both screenplay and directing in two pictures-Letter to Three Wives (1949), and All About Eve (1950)-ruefully admitted that big-budget movies, à la his Cleopatra, which cost $40 million, are now out. "What they would like my next four films to be," he said, "are Easy Cowboy, Midnight Rider, Cowboy Rider and Easy Midnight." Mankiewicz has apparently...
...courts. In case of a divorce, British women often have no right to property acquired during marriage. This spring, Lib ladies picketed the Miss World Contest with signs reading MISUSED, MISCONCEPTION and MISGUIDED. Later they plastered lingerie ads with stickers saying "You earn more as a real whore...
After Michaels voted against the bill, one of his sons angrily called him "a whore," and at that point he began to have second thoughts. Furthermore, only one more vote was needed to pass the bill. After hours of angry debate, Michaels rose with tears in his eyes and switched his vote?thus giving New York the most liberal abortion law in the U.S. The young, the press and most women cheered, but Michaels knew what was in store. Roman Catholics were incensed; even fellow Democrats denounced his action. In the June primary, Michaels' constituents erased him from the Democratic...