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...obvious inspiration is Federico Fellini's 8-1/2, in which Guido, a moviemaker with director's block, is beset by memories and fantasies as he dodges all the women in his life, from mother to wife to whore to mistress to muse. Caden has women problems (wife, daughter, mistress, actress); but Synecdoche, bless it, doesn't demean or dismiss any of them - except maybe the family shrink (Hope Davis), who tells Caden her new best-selling book can help him, then charges him $45 for a copy. And this artist's problem is not the lack of an idea...
...worker, Faleiro writes, "If she talks to me she may call herself a 'sex worker' and 'social worker,' terms she has been taught by the NGO where she works part time. Otherwise, she refers to herself as 'randi' - a Hindi word so disparaging it has no English equivalent. Neither whore nor hooker, prostitute nor tart ... The majority of sex workers, like stray dogs, either accept their maltreatment without objection, or fail to realize...
...Brownback and Frank Keating, who serve as his surrogates, but has few aides within the campaign to coordinate outreach. The lack of high-level religious advisers became obvious earlier this year when McCain accepted the endorsement of Evangelical pastor John Hagee, who has called the Catholic Church "the great whore of Babylon," a phrase unlikely to warm the hearts of McCain's Catholic supporters...
...first thing you should know about me," says the title character (Billie Piper), "is that I'm a whore." Her name is the second thing--and the third: she's "Belle" to her clients, "Hannah" (her real name) off the job. (The series is based on a blog by pseudonymous London escort Belle de Jour, named for the Catherine Deneuve movie.) Finally, she offers her motivations: "I love sex," she says. "I love money...
...deal. They are not going away, we have to do the best we can.'" One angry woman demanded the town leadership do something because the FLDS were practicing polygamy and living in sin. Nikolauk responded: "Two thousand years ago this young fella stood up in defense of a whore and said he who is without sin cast the first stone. I know there are some sinless folks here so why don't you stand up so we can applaud you." That calmed the anger. For a while too, the town feared that the newcomers would take over the local government...