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...that happens is very everydayish, which actually enhances the play's humanity. The camp's commandant worries about the production quota: if it goes up, he gets a promotion; if it goes down, he faces ignominy or worse. The camp's doctor is busy assembling a harem of pseudo nurses. The camp's foundrymen are lured on to melt bronze by the promise of a bonus. They are cheated out of it. A doomed love blooms like a flower held in the outthrust hand of a tragic Charlie Chaplin...
...similar trend marked Rome long before its fall. Juvenal decried the ubiquity of foppish, feminine, perfumed males. Elagabalus appeared publicly in women's clothes. Caesar was likened to "every man's wife and every woman's husband"; Antony had a harem of men and women; and Nero is thought to have married a castrated male...
...startled BBC listeners by describing Anna as a bigot, "one of those awful little English governesses, a sex-starved widow." Grimble says he bases his ungallant appraisal on a study of Anna's own books, The English Governess at the Siamese Court and The Romance of the Harem. They were, says Grimble, "pornographic," and "rubbish" -"the sort of books that Calvinists read beneath bedcovers...
...father was a Hungarian contractor, her mother an Egyptian girl "born in a harem," according to Tullah. She came to the U.S. about 30 years ago, having dropped out of school at 14. "Already I had decided to marry a millionaire," she explains, "but I rejected two Chicago millionaires before I met my Edward. They were bum millionaires. I didn't want to throw such a pearl before swine...
...songs, dancing, swimming in a small pool, stealing cars for cash and picking through garbage for food. Miners in the area reported being chased away by amazons wielding knives. Manson reportedly held an almost hypnotic spell over his followers, who called him "God" and "Satan." His women lolled harem-like around the commune nude or barebreasted, catering to his every whim. One chagrined ranchhand relates discussing business with Manson while one of Manson's girls performed a sex act upon the "guru." But women in the "family" saw him in a different light. "He gave...