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...verge of going to bed with a woman. Whether in high school or in a San Francisco hippie joint, someone is always splatting an egg in Jimmy's face, which he wipes off with a resilient smile or a song supplied in bouncy measure by John Sebastian of The Lovin' Spoonful...
...Sebastian Dangerfield, the lusting, heroic anti-hero of Don-leavy's comic first novel, The Ginger Man, was torn between fumbling seductions and desperate attempts to make ends meet. Balthazar B gropes endlessly for an enduring love, denied him at least partly because of his riches. He is born of wealthy French parents, and the circumstances connected with Balthazar's upbringing make him into a shy, porcelain personality curiously inept at coming to terms with life...
Delicate Troubles. Much of the book echoes The Ginger Man, particularly because Beefy is so reminiscent of that rascal O'Keefe, Sebastian Dangerfield's friend. And many of the sexual scenes, often dominated by Beefy's rhetoric, bear an uncomfortable resemblance to those of the earlier book. But there is a dramatic shift in focus from the blatant hardships of the lower classes in Ginger Man to the more subtle and delicate troubles of the moneyed aristocracy. In both cases, there doesn't seem to be much justice for such money-haunted people as Balthazar, Beefy...
...From the moment when he first springs to life in Faust's laboratory, it is readily apparent that this is a Devil who bursts with the power of his own evil. He taunts God endlessly, even pulling an arrow brazenly from the chest of a statue of St. Sebastian to make wine flow from the wound. The new Faust might even be called Mephistopheles, so outrageous is it in its affront to operatic tradition. Yet it works because its theatrical departures are brilliantly conceived and its characters, for once, are almost believable...
...SPAIN: A LOVE AFFAIR (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Jason Robards Jr. narrates a documentary on the scenes and people celebrated in the works of Ernest Hemingway. Film crews return to the ruins of the village of Valsain, the Sierra de Guadarrama, and the cities of Madrid, Malaga, San Sebastian and Cuenca. The program includes readings by Rod Steiger and Estelle Parsons and performance by Antonio Ordoñez, the bullfighter immortalized in "The Dangerous Summer...