Word: whoring
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What forces the crisis is Bob's imminent departure. He has invited his occasional lover of the past few years, a middle-aged alcoholic whore, to join him for a farewell celebration with Jake, and while they wait, the comedy routines that have sustained their relationship for five years finally begin to wear thin. Jake sees clearly for the first time that Bob is self-centered to the point of being totally blind to the people he is closest to. He makes an issue of Bob's easy and careless unconcern for truth, and in the process exposes a long...
...whole production takes on a high-schoolish air, but this usually doesn't last too long. The tone and content of the production sometimes approaches that blend of the cute, the childishly obscene and the genuinely funny that must have been present in '30s House productions with titles like Whore and Piece...
Goya, in the 80 prints that follow--most of which are in the MFA show--has depicted every evil, depraved and grotesque instinct of his society. An old woman says a rosary over a whore primping to ply her trade. A well-dressed, aristocratic woman steels teeth from a swinging corpse for use in a love potion. A group of desolate-looking monks sit drinking around a table--to this group, Goya has given a double-entendre title: "Estan Calientes" which means both "they're hot" and "they are in heat...
Restless he rolls form whore to whore...
...unconsciously defining the sacrosanct woman, belonging to her husband or father and chaste, men have thrust the majority of modern women into the other mold. A woman in control of her own life cannot be cast readily into the virgin/saint role. So she is cast into the role of whore. And in the mind of the rapist and in the courtroom she is no longer the victim, but the perpetrator: "She was asking for it," comes the matter-of-fact decision...