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...speculative pastime, but ever since his success with the musical, Cabaret, Prince has apparently been captivated by the notion that he is peculiarly endowed to interpret the nature of European decadence and its relationship to the rise of Nazi Germany. The same theme recently caused a bit more flesh to crawl in The Damned, possibly because the decadence was depicted with a certain sinister conviction. In Prince's film, decadence functions as a backdrop to a silly operetta...
...WROTE poems celebrating the marriage of flesh and air. He loved the sensuousness of mere being, loved the texture of things, and he treasured the rare, the exotic, and the lush. His poems are figured with rings of men chanting in orgy on summer mornings, with girls named Bawda from places named Catwba, and with old sailors drunk in their boots, catching tigers in red weather...
...letters, diaries, and journals with the poems provide some striking insights: the actual events which led to "The Emperor of Ice Cream" and "The Ordinary Women," when juxtaposed with the texts, makes for exciting critical handiwork. But what one asks most from the biography-the anecdotes, the psychology, the flesh, the sheer literary gossip which would go a long way toward taking Stevens out of the half-light of his insurance office-is missing. It's not that the tools are unavailable: Erikson's book on Gandhi, Walter Jackson Bate's on Keats. Nancy Milford's on Zelda Fitzgerald...
L.B.J. fans in the crowd are occasionally rewarded with a visit from the former President. He drives down from the ranch in work clothes to press the flesh, sign autographs and chat by the honeysuckle along the front fence...
Together they comb the East Village for Compton's daughter and end up wallowing in a smoky pad with a group of hippies. Joe looks at the welter of nude flesh in wonder. "This is an orgy, ain't it?" he asks (pronouncing "orgy" with a hard g). But the kids taunt them mercilessly, steal their wallets and take off for a commune. Joe and Bill track down the youngsters in a closing scene of such horror that Joe must surely rank in impact with Bonnie and Clyde...