Word: whoring
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...better and you get worse, but you can never know if it matters. O Crimson, you are future and you are past, and your present is a fleeting spark for us; you are a great friendly whore who takes us for our one-night four-year stand and barely stirs when we depart, for the line outside you door is never-ending...
Lapotaire renders Piaf, the diminutive poet-songstress of the pre-dawn city blues, with matchless psychological fidelity. She gives us Piaf, whom the French called the Sparrow, as an eagle in courage. She makes us know Piaf soul-seared, the Paris gutter urchin, the cagey whore whom the world came to hold in the embrace of fame but who could not keep her own life from seeping through her splayed fingers, at 47 in 1963 spent by alcohol, morphine, sex and cancer...
...clear and simple as the plot of an old morality play. Everything and everyone, except the victims, is for sale; all social transactions, except the class solidarity of workers, are poisoned at the root; the world is run by four breeds of pig: capitalist, officer, priest and whore. Such are the ingredients of caricature, but Grosz, especially in his early postwar work like Gray Day (State Functionary for the War Wounded), 1921, extracted a mean, indignant poetry from them...
When punk finally did raise its little pointed head on the whore-worn streets of the Cannes Film Festival this year, most of the new rock movies arrived outdated, blaring examples of being in the wrong place at the wrong time...
...Black female celebrity is pretty, or sexy, or married to a White man, she is called a talentless whore. If she's elegant or highbrow or intellectual, she's pronounced funny-looking, uptight, or in need of a good brutal fuck. If she happens to appeal to a White audience, she is despised. If she's independent, physical, or aggressive, she's called a dyke...