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Violetta's honest devotion to and many sacrifices for her lover, Alfredo Germont (played by Rafael Rojas), teach the haughty aristocrats (namely Alfredo's father, Giorgio Germont, played by Vasquez) of mid-century Paris how endearing and tender this supposed easy woman can be. The whore with a heart of gold? It's been done, you say. But not to the music of Giuseppe Verdi: the passion and the thrill of his music will make every Mira Sorvino '89/Elisabeth Shue '88/Kim Basinger poseur-hooker seem like a mean-hearted trollop in relation to the radiant and self-sacrificing Violetta...

Author: By Ankur N. Ghosh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sumptuous `Traviata' Shines on a Grand Scale | 12/4/1998 | See Source »

garden tool: (n.) a whore, from "ho." "The Wellesley garden tools are here...

Author: By Terry E-E Chang, | Title: Speakin' in tongues | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

...never talked about it. He would leave the room if a commercial for a feminine product came on TV." And when her sister finally had sex, at 16, even her mother's vaunted openness crumbled. "She talked to my mom about it and ended up feeling like a whore because even though my mom always said we could talk to her about anything, she didn't want to hear that her daughter had slept with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where'd You Learn That? | 6/15/1998 | See Source »

...independence to still use old-fashioned symbolism with obvious religious overtones. To some, Cole's romance with Magdalena, an epileptic Mexican prostitute, will suggest the New Testament and a disorder once thought to be a gift from God. To others, the relationship of a young cowboy and a convulsive whore will sound like the subject of a bunkhouse joke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Thar She Moos | 5/18/1998 | See Source »

...what about in practice? One day, I wore a skimpy outfit; the next, I wore an especially modest one. Decide for yourself if Harvard is immune to the obsession over appearance. A Day in the Life of an Upscale Whore...

Author: By Evelyn H. Sung, | Title: the LADY & the TRAMP | 4/23/1998 | See Source »

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