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Madame Rosa is a former whore; Momo is the son of a different whore. Mme. Rosa is a Jew; she raises Momo as a Moslem. She was the only member of her family to survive Auschwitz; he was abandoned by his parents at age three. She is haunted by past persecution; he is tortured because he can't be sure of his ancestry...
...Saifudin, former chief of the Sinkiang-Uigher Autonomous Region; and the late K'ang Sheng, onetime internal security boss. The minigang members have also been blasted by the Teng-controlled People's Daily, which has called them "hyenas, wolfish animals." The four, along with other backers of Mme. Mao, have also been attacked as the "wind faction," "slip-away faction" and "coverup faction." Meaning: they have bent with the wind, crept away from difficulties and concealed their crimes...
Birabeau (Laurie Main), who is an inanely unsuspecting cuckold. All the key figures converge on a kind of maison d'amour run by the lecherous Mme. Spritzer (Kathleen Freeman). There they are beset by an 1890 version of the Keystone Kops who have a devil of a time trying to fathom the traffic flow...
...coils around the characters like a boa constrictor and embraces the audience in fun and terror. One of the subsidiary characters is Helga ten Dorp (Marian Winters), a psychic who prophesies events with a certain deadly inaccuracy. Winters makes her the most consumingly droll zany since Mildred Natwick, as Mme. Arcati, had close encounters with a nether world in Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit...
...they are waxworks of a superior kind. At 53, Hanson has taken his craft beyond the limits of Mme. Tussaud: one can get within two feet of his Man with Hand Cart, 1975, and the only thing that demonstrates the wrinkles and veins are not real aged flesh is the figure's immobility. Astutely, Hanson generally reinforces the illusion by preventing the figure's eyes from meeting one's own-nothing gives the game away quicker than a glass eye that cannot blink. His work belongs in the context of photorealist painting, but it incorporates more illusions...