Word: sepper
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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...Baron von Sepper, a World War I Austrian flying ace and an enthusiastic fascist, Burton feels a lugubrious vocation to dispatch a series of wives-Raquel Welch, Virna Lisi, Nathalie Delon and several other international cupcakes. "They were all monsters," he explains. "They only looked human when they were dead." His eighth frau is an American, Joey Heatherton, who comes on like a refugee from a Tijuana specialty act. With good, home-grown American intuition, Joey discovers that the baron's problems are rooted in impotence and a rather baroque affection for his departed mother. The baron rewards this...
Doggedly pursuing Von Sepper throughout his adventures is a young Jewish musician whose home and family were destroyed in a pogrom that the baron had initiated. Such an attempt at redeeming social significance is simply offensive, not only for its clumsiness and opportunism but because it uses the beginnings of genocide as the punch line in a campy dirty joke...
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