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...Balcony. To French ex-Convict Jean Genet the world is a brothel, and his play-more interesting for its conception and staging than for the playwright's wild language-is set in a bawdyhouse where customers are dressed as bishops, judges and generals to salve their egos...
...Balcony. To French ex-Convict Jean Genet the world is a brothel, and his play-more interesting for its conception and staging than for the playwright's wild threshings of language-is set in a brothel where customers are dressed as bishops, judges and generals to salve their egos...
...York (he worked on the Brooklyn Bridge), a cowboy in the U.S. West (he was fearless as a gun fighter, by his own account), a lawyer of sorts. He served as correspondent for several U.S. papers during the Russo-Turkish war-covering the hostilities from a brothel in Odessa, some say, though Harris insisted that he never left dashing General Skoboleff's side...
Whether or not the French deserve their frequently self-bestowed laurels as great lovers, few would deny that they are consummate kiss-and-tell artists. Over the centuries, they have told all in diaries, letters, memoirs, novels and the social chronicles of boudoir, salon and brothel. With one eye on the lofty mystery of love and the other hovering at the keyhole, British Author Nina Epton scans the Gallic love parade in an amusing though helter-skelter review...
...time from a convent school for writing a love letter to a teacher. Sylvie has long since decided that she ought to be dead, but death frightens her. Yet to live, "one has to choose between three houses where one is shut up; the asylum, the convent and the brothel." In her view, of course, the convent's dedicated Christians are "puppets worshiping their own strings." What weakens I Will Not Serve is Sylvie's own knowledge that all she really wants of life is forbidden love. Failing to receive it on her terms, she is acute enough...