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...middle age slows him down, he fears that his inadequacy will destroy their marriage, for he suspects that Ikuko, even though she is undemonstrative about sex, is really avid for it. Papa adopts a program that may well offend readers who have never before thought of themselves as prim. He takes to French brandy and encourages his wife to get drunk with him. What is more, he encourages Kimura, a young friend of his marriageable daughter, to join them. When Ikuko succumbs to brandy and occasional fainting fits, Papa takes her to bed, throws powerful lights on her nude body...
...time, using guitars, violins, and more alien instruments with names that would open Sesame: the oud, grandfather of the lute; the darbuka, a small drum with the treelike shape of a roemer glass; the def, a low-pitched tambourine. The girls sit quietly with the musicians, wearing prim dresses or plain, secretarial shifts, until it is time to go off to a back room and reappear in the spare uniform of the harem...
...relatively minor actors also gave outstanding performances--Jean Weston as the prim and vicious governor's wife and Robert P. Youngsberg as the loutish corporal. Brecht displayed his discretion in not giving the little prince any speaking lines, and Mr. Hancock displayed his in choosing a beautiful urchin to play the role...
...prosperous Ocala lawyer who was twice voted the state's most valuable man by Florida's Junior Chamber of Commerce, was judged by reporters to be the state's best legislator during his five terms in the house of representatives (his fourth, as speaker). Prim and bookish, Bryant is a Harvard Law School graduate, won both this year's run-off primary and the election with a surefire (in the redneck counties where he ran best) campaign pledge: No integration in Florida schools...
...disease. Drohitzers who might have been exposed are rounded up and lodged in the Silver Hall, the mirror-lined banquet room of the Mashinka's most fashionable bordello. Confinement quickly erases the difference between whore and housewife, who come to share each other's concerns: a prim matron tries a striptease, the prostitutes study cake recipes. Eventually quarantine proves ineffective. The infection rages through Drohitz and the surrounding countryside and Ember, promoted from subaltern to Commissioner of Deceased Persons, runs out both coffins and burial parties. At novel's end the army marches off to another regrouping...