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Much is genuinely funny in Perera's saga of a guilt-ridden innocent abroad. Bendana has a mad. malapropriate sister, who feels "like a fish in Coca-Cola" instead of a fish out of water. He finds himself standing on the road before a brothel "tallying figures in his head, wondering uneasily if they would take a traveler's check." There are lapses, of course. Perera slumps toward collegiate humor or into yuks too obviously derived from the new school of American-Jewish humor. His story line suffers the common affliction of the picaresque novel, midsection...
Perhaps the single most stimulating parliamentary candidate is Actress Diane Hart, 43, an Independent, now under heavy attack for playing a brothel madam in the new film Two Women -and for wearing a see-through nightie in the role. Undoubtedly the most derivative candidate is one Edward James Robert Lambert Heath, who used to be plain old James Robert Lambert, a 28-year-old schoolteacher. He changed his name by deed poll (a simple court procedure costing $6) to aggravate Conservative Party Leader Edward ("Ted") Heath. Since both Edward Heaths are running in suburban London's Bexley constituency...
...Fellini's Rome never flee the decadence and malaise that creates them. For example, in one take, two of the main characters are walking past a side street, up which horses are drawing a 20-foot high statue of a head. The two are on their way to a brothel. Trying to understand the head on the side street as a straightforward symbol just doesn't work, because it is not a symbol that relates back to the emotions or the unconscious of either of the two characters in the way that the horse walking down the street...
...Percival Brownlee who appears in William Faulkner's story The Bear. Exasperating to his white masters because his aspirations and talents are for preaching and conducting choirs rather than for farming, Brownlee is "freed" after much resistance and ends up as the prosperous proprietor of a New Orleans brothel. In Faulkner's hands, the uncomprehending drive of Brownlee's owners to "get shut" of him is comically instructive. Indeed, the story resonates certain abiding, indeed tragic themes of American history with which it is interwoven, and which are causing great turbulence in the social atmosphere today...
...time to jump ship and really get down to the business of degradation. By a simple plot twist, Alexander himself is made a plantation slave. Nor in his guided tour of slavery does Maclnnes neglect the white variety. Ex-Slave Alexander, on the run, finds refuge in a Caribbean brothel called Sans Regrets. Shades of Moll Flanders...