Word: whoring
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...stop-prostitution bill that was passed in 1956. In the U.S., where prostitution has seldom been seriously discussed on the screen, audiences will no doubt be stunned by the film's unblinking realism. But they will probably not be startled by the scriptwriter's discovery that every whore has a heart of gold...
...over by Kassem's cousin, Colonel Fadhil Abbas Mahdawi, a willing tool of the Communists, the court stages televised nightly trials of "enemies of the regime," i.e., enemies of the Communist Party. Mahdawi is a suety, quick-witted ruffian-"Egypt has always had bad rulers. Cleopatra was a whore"-who holds court to extract confessions rather than dispense justice. Making up his own rules, treating the accused as already convicted, interrupting to make long and wildly irrelevant speeches, Mahdawi, with his four fellow judges, has already sentenced to death dozens of victims, including two former Premiers of Iraq...
...takes rocks and gravel, well-a To make a solid road well-a It takes a good-looking woman, well-a To make a good-looking whore, well...
Author Johnson's novel covers the last summer of Skipton's life. A party of English tourists comes to Bruges, and Skipton sets out to fleece them for his winter wear. He finds a whore for one of the men and snob delights for the woman in the party; for both sexes he arranges a Pigalle-type "spectacle." But by summer's end Skipton has himself been swindled out of what little money remains to him: his sole consolation is that death is close enough to save him from the agonies of another winter...
...Zachary Scott), Temple tells all in a flashback confessional. It is a litany of lust and degradation. Eight years before, Temple had been kidnaped by a spiderish hoodlum named Popeye, kept six weeks in a Memphis brothel, and ''loved it." ("Nun" is a 19th century word for whore.) A year later Temple married the slack-spined Virginia gentleman, Gowan Stevens, who had been too drunk at the time of the kidnaping to protect her. It is only when Temple proposes to relive the bad old days with an ex-lover's younger brother that Nancy pleads with...