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...fisted hoodlums are about to ignite the subpoenaed accounts of a corrupt union, federal agents burst in, guns drawn. Then, with split-second timing, other teams of FBI men miles away sweep up crooked businessmen, racketeers and a tainted state investigator. One key arrest comes after a manic broken-field chase through the pushcarts and costermongers of New York's Fulton Fish Market. The villain is nabbed just in time to save the life of an undercover agent whose fake identity has been blown...
...series of manic bumbles follows. A naive disguise of clipped hair, a new mustache and a tanning parlor's efforts almost gets Lundgren expelled from a "straight" bar in Key West as a gay tourist. Ever the optimist, Lundgren reflects: "Rare, indeed, is a woman or man so sullied that they can't be rebaptized with a few drinks, a pizza, and a shower." Disdaining the private eye's code of resisting advances by female suspects, Warlock goes on an erotic tear. Mrs. Rabun, an art gallery owner, lures him with cocaine, and her friend Laura Fardel...
...lover. Blaine's wife has an erotic nervous breakdown in Reinhart's bedroom. Genevieve returns to stage a breakdown of her own. Helen Clayton, his supermarket assistant, bolsters Reinhart's flagging sexuality with motel trysts. A neighbor, Edie Mulhouse, as big as the hero himself, writes manic mash notes. Bewildered, Reinhart observes, "Women in general had grown assertive, had their own magazines displaying naked men and relating filthy fantasies, took out loans from banks, tried murderers, and performed brain surgery. For ever so long now it would have been simple bad taste to buy a broad...
...irresistible force. At other tunes it beguiles, charms and saddens, as in Katerina's aria lamenting the lack of love in her life just before Sergei steals into her bedroom. The police station scene in Act III is a crazily comic interlude evoking some of the more manic moments in The Nose, providing a needed respite and placing the final tragedy in high relief...
...self-reproach. After a romp among the paper clips, Dirk's afterplay consists of pillow talk about eternal damnation. Then, subsequent to monologues on, say, the doctrine of supralapsarianism, the old Dutch cleanser marches his partner to the tub and scours her flesh with the same manic energy normally devoted to saucepans...