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Long before “Pretty Woman” became ubiquitous shorthand for the ’90s romantic comedy, the movie set off shudders of moral outrage for daring to cast Roberts as a streetwalking Eliza Doolittle.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 20, 2016

Search and Destroy, on the 1973 classic Raw Power, sums it up nicely: "I'm a streetwalking cheetah with a heart full of napalm / I'm a runaway son of the nuclear A-bomb".

From The Guardian • May 4, 2010