Word: goatish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nessim, her millionaire husband; Melissa, a tubercular Greek dancer. There is also an assortment of other exotics, who seem to have crawled from beneath a blistered and immemorial stone of Alexandria-Scobie, the transvestite policeman; Toto de Brunei, who dies with a hatpin rammed through his brain; Capodistria, the goatish sybarite; hare-lipped Narouz, who carries a severed head in his saddlebag; Pursewarden, who has discovered "the uselessness of having opinions" and turns to the humdrum world "the sort of smile which might have hardened on the face of a dead baby...
...plot hops from peak to peak of interest with a goatish nimbleness. Tyrone Power, a Boer bushfighter, visits Ireland to buy horseflesh and meets Susan Hayward, who follows him to Africa. When they meet again in the big attack-in which not a hair of her pretty red head is ruffled-Ty says exactly the right thing: "You . . . here in Africa fighting Zulus ... I can hardly believe...