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...magnate. The millionaire and his imbecilic wife want to buy a castle and instant social status. Conrad, of course, sees the connection between their ambitions and the Countess' wish to re-open her decayed ancestral fief, Helmut marries the heiress, though he and his bride aspire only to sexual bliss with Conrad. Conrad himself mercy awaits the chance to murder the heiress and her parents, to propel him openly into prominence and wealth as savior of the Ornstein dynasty. Barbarian blood, as the old historical axiom goes, refreshes the withered, in-bred stock of effete aristocrats. In fairy-tale fashion...
...glory lilting in his head and an earnest determination to uphold the honor of soldiering. The other, 2nd Lieut. Edward Millington (Jeremy Clyde), the son of a general, is disdainfully disenchanted with the military. A kind of Victorian dropout, he intends to get busted and return to the bliss of civilian life. Millington quickly breaks regimental protocol and gets himself cordially detested by everyone from the colonel on down to Drake, his neophyte comrade-in-arms...
...lawyer husband (Richard Benjamin), is an Ivy League cretin who announces to their children at the breakfast table: "Your mother made Phi Beta Kappa at Smith, but I don't think she can make a four-minute egg." This sort of thing is hardly conducive to connubial bliss, so Tina tends to get turned off when Jonathan yearns for a "little old roll in de hay." She begins a passionate "sex thing" with a surly, sarcastic, sadistic writer who taunts her and lusts after her with equal ferocity. After one such session, when the writer (Frank Langella) has roughed...
...That connection established, Barthel turned to the tocapus embroidered on one notable Inca relic-a priestly garment, or uncu, now in Washington's Bliss Collection. He decided that the repetition of some of the tocapus meant that the same message was being emphasized. More important, he noticed that several signs, like Chinese pictograms, resembled real objects. That enabled him to pick out the symbols for the supreme Inca deity, Kon Ticsi Viracocha (popularly, Kon-Tiki), who is represented by the tocapu for heat (kon) and two bases of pyramids (ticsi), meaning foundation and earth. By the time Barthel finished...
IGNORANCE, they used to tell us, is bliss. For anyone facing up to the Selective Service System, ignorance can be death. In a nation where information is always a considerable advantage, there are few places where the uninformed are as routinely victimized as in the draft system. More than the courts, the schools, or the businesses. the draft is utterly merciless to those who don't know its ropes...