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...love, who rejects him with a shout of "you redheaded fool"; Etten, Holland, in front of the Van Gogh's home, where he is rejected by his cousin Kay with the same taunt; a blazing outdoor scene at Aries; the erotic Maya dream sequence; Madame Louise's brothel, where the psychotic Van Gogh cuts off his ear; and finally the shadowy deathbed scene, in which the painter's death is announced by the offstage firing of a revolver and by the slow illumination of his paintings, ranged about the dark walls like sun-filled windows. Although...
Germany, in 1923, is in the grip of dizzy inflation, so Ludwig plays the organ for church services at the asylum for a good Sunday dinner and yearns for enough billions of marks to buy a new suit. Because his mother was constantly ill, the girls at a local brothel had seen to it that he did his schoolwork. At 18, when he was about to be shipped off to the trenches, he presented himself as a customer, and the sentimental, motherly prostitutes packed him off to the front a virgin. He is welcome now, but he seldom...
...prostitute since the age of ten. Their first child barely missed being born on a sidewalk, with Father da Ponte probably acting as midwife ("The kind of incident that happens every day," he said). Ignoring a reprimand by the vicar-general, Da Ponte and Angioletta next opened a brothel-Da Ponte, "still in his cassock, played the violin...
...Hard to read, harder to act, impossible to stage with its own wild flavor intact because of obvious censorship obstacles, "Nighttown" is bound to keep playgoers consulting not only programs but probably interpretive texts carried into the theater by the bushel and read by match-light. Sample of the brothel-born maunderings of Ulysses' protagonist Leopold Bloom: "I wanted then to have now concluded. Nightdress was never. Hence this. But tomorrow is a new day will be. Past was is today. What now is will then tomorrow as now was be past yester ... I stand, so to speak, with...
...teeth," one farmer told TIME Correspondent Curtis Prendergast. "The only thing we've left to sell is our daughter." It was not a joke. Many a farm family, in desperate need, has returned to the old but recently outlawed custom of selling off a daughter to some enterprising brothel keeper in exchange for ready cash. So far this year, the Hokkaido prefectural police headquarters reported, 1,454 girls have been sold to restaurants, brothels and geisha houses, and 1,040 persons had been charged with brokerage in girls. Some teenagers have been sold for $15; in rare instances, more...