Word: whoring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...summer stock. Now the old cronies have teamed up again in The Cheyenne Social Club, a wonderfully outdated odyssey of bawdy innocence. True, the film is populated with more pasteboard characters than you could empty a pair of Colt Peacemakers at. There is not just one whore with a heart of gold, but six. There is the starched, parched lawyer feller and the inevitable gang of scabrous villains without a redeeming virtue to their sinister names. The dialogue is beautifully peppered with the buckshot of obscure Old-West metaphors (Harley: "I used to be a real cedar-breaker...
...sign, conceived in an earthy moment of beer-hall bonhomie, read: LINDSAY DROPS THE FLAG MORE TIMES THAN A WHORE DROPS HER PANTS. While there were no comparable uprisings elsewhere in the country, the rebellion of the hardhats seemed only the surface of a resentment that doubtless runs deep across the nation...
...realities dominate academic intercourse with the American war machine. The first is the university as a corporation lusting for profit. The second is the professor as whore." This passage, perhaps the most striking in the book, testifies to Kahn's ability as a prose stylist. When criticizing students, Kahn is confused, unable to categorize them into any clear pattern, but when dealing with faculty, Kahn sees a concrete evil, and attacks it dynamically...
...Shea, the old porter, shines his buttons and dreams of the day when O'Neill's Hotel will be restored to glory. Agnes Quin, who started out to be a nun and ended up a whore, daydreams that her life-which largely consists of fat, grunting men and soiled sheets-has been magically turned into an old Olivia de Havilland movie...
...Japan's feudal age, a defenseless noblewoman and her family are seized by bandits. She is sold for a whore. Her children become slaves of the ruthless Sansho, fief-holder to one of Japan's most powerful nobles. By linking the exploitation of the weak to the separation of a family, the film achieves a simple unity of immense power. The children's motivation to escape and find their mother is at the same time a political motivation. When the boy Zushio decides to become Sansho's man, his sister Anju taxes him not only for his cruelty...