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Walser does not quite believe Fevvers' confession, and rightly so. Most of its details are incredible. Buffeted by cruel fate, the bird-girl sinks to enforced servitude in the establishment of one Madame Schreck, who runs a particularly nasty pornographic peep show. Fevvers, by now known throughout the London demimonde as the Virgin Whore, plays the Angel of Death in erotic tableaux. Hearing that her mistress has sold her services for a trifle, the rara avis explodes: "What, 50 rotten guineas for the only fully feathered intacta in the entire history of the world? Call yourself a procuress...
...from another world. The actors, after the manner of Oriental drama, seem like life-sized puppets, but with the intricate gestures and fluid grace of human voice and movement. The entire cast is superb, from Thomas Derrah at King Deramo to Lynn Chausow as Clarice with her Little-Bo-Peep voice and Christopher Moore as Leandro, who loves Clarice and makes every entrance head-over-heels...
Hodgkin paints small, and his work combines the intimate with the declamatory. Every image seems to be based either on a room with figures or a peep into a garden from a window, and is regulated by layered memories of conversation, sexual tension and private jokes. But this is conveyed by an extraordinary blooming, spotting, bumbling and streaking of color, an irradiation of the mildly anecdotal by the aggressively visual. The small size of Hodgkin's canvases puts a high premium on their quality of touch (which rarely falters), but the color counts most...
...three haunt another emporium, the Cat's Paw. In this posh pornography boutique on Manhattan's Upper East Side, the dirty magazines and sexual implements are tastefully displayed. There Kelly makes her re-entry into journalism by interviewing a peep-show dancer who is addicted to fan magazines. Billy, in a Scotch-fueled search for campaign issues, settles arbitrarily on pornography. In an alcoholic blackout, he destroys mirrors and private movie booths with a chain. Amid the shambles, Jennings advises him to tell the authorities, "You did it on purpose...
...peep has been heard from Washington about the murder of Firmin Joseph. President Reagan still plans to visit Marcos in November, and presumably will praise him as a staunch upholder of democratic principles. Lame requests for the men who murdered Orlando Letelier continue, along with new rounds of economic and military aid. In Manila, in Brooklyn and in Washington, everything is under control. Don Corleone would be green with envy...