Don Draper, né Whitman, might look like the world's fantasy of a man who doesn't need to pay for sex, but over five seasons, he's been both a whore and a pimp, as well as both an actual and a metaphorical john.
The irony with which Gibbon so magnificently treated the faith of sixth-century Byzantium would be absolutely toxic to the integrity of a novel such as Duffy's; and if her Theodora is convincing both as whore and empress, then that is due largely to her credibility as penitent.
Jake and Vienna bickered and talked about all the things they've been talking about; he didn't show her affection, she was mean and they're both fame whores and liars.
Getty turned to managing his Los-Angles-based boutique record label, Emperor Norton: both Virgin-Whore Complex LPs were released under the label, which was mainly focused on electronica, hip-hop and dance music, as were albums by Air, Ugly Duckling, Ladytron, and Fantastic Plastic Machine.
Warner is no Jim Webb - he's both a corporate whore and ideologically predisposed against doing anything that could even be vaguely perceived as rocking the boat.
"Have I been a fool or a whore or both?
He asked: "Have I been a fool or a whore or both?
He asked his friend Nathan Glazer, "Have I been a fool or a whore or both?" Fans may also enjoy browsing through letters that show the man behind the statesman: someone who did not take himself too seriously, even if his ideas were snapped up by policymakers and the public.
Indeed, the women of "Pennies From Heaven" are classic stereotypes: Joan is frigid, Eileen is idealized as both a virgin and a whore.
Whore and john both: in the film's most notorious scene, Isabelle visits a male client, a businessman, who coordinates a sexual machinelike display that is almost near-comic in its tortuous choreography and depressing for the same reason.
