• They needed witnesses, but the general rule was that prostitutes didn't testify against their boss, the pimp, out of reluctance or fear.

    CNN: Selling Atlanta's children: What has and hasn't changed

  • Beast music that grinds us like so many butchered animals, seasoned and smashed into teapot and patties and served with the supersize of pimp juice.

    NPR: Hip-Hop: Under Fire - Slam Poetry Performance

  • Mr Sharon's party is expected to take votes away from some of the other small parties that traditionally pimp themselves as coalition partners to the highest bidder.

    ECONOMIST: The ��bulldozer�� sends tremors through Israeli politics

  • Or the year the premiere of a documentary called "American Pimp" attracted a handful of real pimps and their entourages, causing a near-riot when there weren't enough seats.

    CNN: Redford and me: Confessions of a Sundance stargazer

  • On Wednesday, the mother, representing herself, said although the council approved the father as her carer when she was particularly vulnerable, they now viewed him as a pimp and a paedophile unsuitable to be around their daughter.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | England | Northamptonshire | Girl loses fight to stop adoption

  • Things got better after Three 6 Mafia won Best Song, giving both Stewart and most of the other presenters something to riff on - primarily the title of their song, It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp.

    BBC: Last Updated: Monday, 6 March 2006, 08:40 GMT

  • As any executive would do at a launch event, Chou went on to pimp the highlights of the One: BlinkFeed (live feed of ambient information), BoomSound (dual front-facing loudspeaker) and Zoe (multimedia gallery and editor on steroids).

    ENGADGET: HTC's Peter Chou: 'We're confident consumers will appreciate our innovations' (video)

  • In effect, the two men pimp for each other: Crane, the TV star with the devilish smile, attracts endless girls, some of whom sleep with Carpenter, and Carpenter, taping the proceedings, attracts a few girls with the cameras, too.

    NEWYORKER: Auto Focus

  • He did not know what to expect and imagined he might encounter some specimen of pimp the dagger-dark madam or tracksuited thug but it was a petite black girl who answered his knock and asked him who his appointment was with.

    NEWYORKER: The Valetudinarian

  • In one egregious incident where an employee counseled a pretend pimp and one of his prostitutes about STD testing and how to get around legal barriers for abortions for underage girls the employee captured on tape was fired.

    FORBES: Planned Parenthood Opponents Want to Recruit High School Videographers

  • Amid the pimp mythologies and metaphors that gut contemporary hip hop, rappers like Common and Xzibit in his wildly popular MTV series Pimp My Ride, devoted to upgrading broken-down automobiles seize on pimpology's prominence to poke fun at its pervasiveness.

    NPR: Author Comes to Hip-Hop Music's Defense

  • Along with the spots there will be 11 celebrity endorsements by the likes of Enrique Iglesias and Shaggy, two documentaries about climate change and an eco-friendly episode of Pimp My Ride in which a '65 Chevy Impala gets an 800-horsepower diesel engine that runs on biodiesel.

    FORBES: MTV's Green Crusade

  • This wondrous, fable-like, yet pain-streaked new film by the Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami is set in Tokyo, where a young prostitute working her way through college (Rin Takanashi) is pressured by her firmly paternal pimp to see a john that night despite her prior appointment with her grandmother.

    NEWYORKER: Like Someone in Love

  • It instead makes its own content--primarily reality shows like Laguna Beach and Pimp My Ride--and finds itself in the same quandary as other owners of entertainment assets: struggling to find a way of maintaining control of its product when so much of it can be had for nothing on the Internet.

    FORBES: Is MTV Aging Well?

  • She also went to the streets of Baltimore and met people like Skinny "Rim" Davenport, who'd been a pimp in the '20s, and Freddie Green, and friends from all sorts of aspects of Billie's life, and she interviewed them, tape-recorded the interviews, transcribed the tapes, and worked on the book, more or less, for 10 years.

    NPR: 'With Billie': A Jazz Great, As Others Saw Her

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