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...word that I was throwing in the towel. Finally he said, "The law will have to take its course, suit yourself," and he gave me the death sentence. But they never carried it out. I always felt that he might not like me, but that I was a sparring mate for him, and he would be lonely without...
...elephant." And then there is the joke about Suder's manager, an amateur taxidermist, who shows up unexpectedly and tries to kill Renoir with a chain saw: "I can't wait to stuff this sucker." By now, Suder has acquired other eccentricities. His cabin mate is a nine-year-old girl named Jincy, a runaway from her abusing mother. She comments: "This is weird. I'm in a strange barn, shoveling hay for an elephant that belongs to a nigger." Meanwhile, Suder has decided to build a pair of wings and fly over a nearby body...
...return, and so they are not surprised when their men turn into beasts. That is natural, Döblin and Fassbinder suggest: we are all predatory animals, driven by the compulsions to fornicate and dominate. A bear of a man, Franz makes love with feral ferocity, strapping his mate around his body, biting her neck in carnivore passion. It takes a special kind of actor to play Franz, and Lamprecht, who looks like a cross between Emil Tannings and Hermann Goering, has the stolid majesty for the role. As for Fassbinder's actresses, they have always been lush galvanizers...
...straying lambs back toward the flock. Mental health means to live with and for others. To some American observers, it may seem that methods of both child rearing and therapy push people in Japan toward a pathologically dependent role. But, of course, the freewheeling, individualistic American, with a disposable mate and two parents stashed away in Florida, may look a bit odd to the Japanese...
...remains a woman's primary goal; the event is so significant that the average cost of a wedding is $23,000. The ideal husband is a sarariman (salary man), who is slightly older and slightly higher in status and who understands the new notions about companionship and a mate chosen for love. Nearly 60% of marriages are still omiai, arrangements made mostly through family and friends but also through counseling and computer centers, and company introduction services. A bride no longer enters her husband's household as a kind of servant to her mother-in-law, nor will...