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...hussars' hats and nothing else. At the town's boxing matches, the style if not the wording of the billboards is familiar: "Famous, flashy and crashing kid possesses a resolute punch." When a jukebox with colored lights and boogie-woogie records arrives in Luang Nakon's brothel and the girls take to nylon blouses imprinted with headlines from a New York tabloid (GIN-CRAZED, SLAYS THREE), it becomes clear that a lot has happened since Anna met the King of Siam...
...Chief Gugel for interfering with Photographer Bailey's civil rights. Another grand jury indicted Gugel for "nonfeasance of duty," i.e., failing to suppress gambling and prostitution. The same jury also indicted Detective Thiem, the raider, on charges of breaking the law himself by having an interest in a brothel, and said he staged the raid on the Playtorium to retaliate for earlier raids on houses he was protecting...
...whom rumor accuses of some greater, vaguer crime. By day he haunts the shipping offices of Marseille in his greasy old captain's uniform, cringing and wheedling for another command. By night he gets roaring drunk and tries to check his conscience and his failure at the local brothel...
...this time, Marius' own end is in sight. His mind cracks. In the novel's closing scenes, grim as any in recent fiction, Marius babbles like a seagoing Lear ("Clear away aft ... let go for'ard") and mistakes his mother for his favorite brothel companion. Unmoved, smugly vengeful, she gloats: "God has drawn down the blind. That is only just ... He is overthrown and that is just...
...Sheffield Barracks in Hawaii, director Fred Zinneman achieves the same effects by a few shots of a brutal guard and several whispered conversations. The scenario is a masterpiece of ingenuity and economy; furthermore, it manages to take such material as a syphilitic husband, a wanton wife, a soldier-infested brothel, and the ordinary obscene talk of the Army and translate it into terms acceptable to the Johnson Office. It's translation, of course, but as in any good translation, the flavor of the original is not lost...