Word: hunchback
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...lovers and the narrator find themselves beset with the ultimate woe of literary teenage coupling: pregnancy. But after reading additional Balzac works such as Old Go, as Pere Goriot was titled in Chinese, and EugEnie Grandet?along with forbidden translations of the Gallic staples Jean-Christophe, Madame Bovary, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Count of Monte Cristo, also stolen from the same Western treasure trove?the worldly education of the beautiful seamstress and real re-education of both young men are completed with an ironic, movie-twist happy ending...
...meets. Though written in the third person, the leering narration synchs up with the mock-erotic dialogue spoken by the characters: Candy's womanhood is described with phrases like "honey-pot," "jelly box," and "sweetening damp"; her breasts are "pert and inquisitive," and she beseeches a homeless hunchback, to whom she is being charitable, "Hurt me as they have hurt you ... Give me your hump...
...introduced a whole new audience to its lyrical mix of circus and performance art. Notre Dame de Paris, imported earlier this year to the new Paris (the Vegas hotel) from the old Paris (the French city) is an ambitious Les Miz-style opera that retells--drearily--the famed Hunchback tale. Even the town's hottest headliner, musical impressionist Danny Gans, devotes less time to the usual Vegas icons (Sinatra, Tony Bennett) than to relatively obscure (to the high rollers in the crowd, anyway) rock-era performers like Boz Scaggs and Aaron Neville...