Word: lechers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Frank Harris: The Life and Loves of a Scoundrel, by Vincent Brome. Less scatological but more truthful than Harris' own notorious account of his life, this biography offers a good portrait of the British editor, lecher and liar...
...even the energy to be angry. He lives in a seedy flat, eats in grubby restaurants, walks himself into exhaustion, and desperately kills time in movie houses. Compared to Brother Julian, though, Charlie's not 'arf bad. Julian, married and an advertising writer, is a compulsive, indiscriminate lecher without being really lustful. At the moment he is in real trouble, having got his landlord's teen-age daughter pregnant. His wife knows, and soon all his family knows...
...subsequent acts her painter-lover cuts his throat when he learns of Lulu's sordid past. Then an elderly lecher marries her; when he discovers her trysting with his son, he offers her a gun to commit suicide and is promptly shot dead himself. Lulu is smuggled out of prison by another of her lovers, Countess Geschwitz, who fools the authorities by changing clothes with Lulu and taking her place ("Now," muses the ungrateful Lulu, "the poor monster sits in prison instead of me"). Lulu decamps to Paris, philanders with gamblers, procurers and swindlers. The end comes...
...amazingly exact in indicating the composer's intentions. The orchestra squirms morbidly in the first half, almost as if playing without direction, but the second half achieves a kind of romantic, lyrical lassitude. The opera bristles with an immense variety of forms: a sonata represents the elderly lecher, a rondo suggests his son, ragtime gives way to an English waltz...