Word: bordello
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Remember how gypsy music was supposedly making a comeback? Praised in the blogosphere after their 2006 debut, Beirut was lumped into the same Eastern Invasion category as Gogol Bordello, simply because both bands cited gypsy influences. However, Beirut eschews Bordello’s hedonism and registers as a slightly more ethnic Neutral Milk Hotel. “The Flying Club Cup,” Beirut’s second album, seeks inspiration further west of their old sonic haunts and finds it in France. The influence is evident, superficially in the pretentious Francophone chatter at the beginning of songs...
...studio, all sharing dreams of glamour and world stardom. A stern Frenchwoman enters the room, and to their horror, the first words out of her mouth are: "Okay girls, off with your clothes, I want you in your underwear. Right now." This is not a scene from a bordello in the sex trade, but an annual event in Japan's new beauty queen factory. For the last 10 years, Ines Ligron has been ordering young Japanese women to strip, walk tall, free their inner woman and wear lots and lots of makeup in an effort to seriously compete...
...Yard’s landscape even presents those bound to Lamont with a gilded alternative: Widener, the venerable elder statesman of Harvard’s many libraries and an ideal location for scholarship of all sorts. Of course, its size inhibits it from keeping its neighbor’s bordello hours, but that’s part of the charm. Would you rather read in an elegant memorial to the Titanic or in a concrete Crock-Pot named for a man who called Benito Mussolini “a very upstanding chap...
Strong Point acquired the ranch from Joe and Sally Conforte, who needed the money to pay off $10 million in back taxes. The couple has operated the bordello since 1964, and became legitimate proprietors in 1971 when Nevada lifted many restrictions on prostitution. The new owners hope to make the ranch semirespectable as well. Says Davis: "Since I've gotten more involved, I'm finding the whole attitude toward it is changing...
...much from its richly detailed minutiae as its historicity. In one sequence Charlie and Fred take a walk past the "Call" building (now Central Tower), through Union Square with its bums lounging around, and into Chinatown, where they enjoy a bowl of noodles and eye the prostitutes behind the bordello windows. So what's changed? Not much. The connection across a 100-year divide is thrilling...