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...collaborations (in which Warhol appears to furnish mostly his name and a little spiritual guidance), Dracula features a cast of actors who look like stragglers from the Apocalypse. Most are anonymous, possessing a similar flexibility of gender. The one readily identifiable figure, Joe Dallesandro, plays - badly, of course - a servant in a rich, decadent household. In such surroundings his New York street accent is in vigorating: "What's the count doin' with you two who-ahs?" he inquires of two sapphic sisters, and gets only a glazed sneer for a response...
There is disagreement from Father Walter Lini, 32, son of a native servant and now an Anglican priest and president of the National Party, the islands' biggest political organization. Says...
...given a staff of 20 to help on the project. Little of what they uncovered was entirely new, but Tachibana's raiders were able to make some intriguing juxtapositions-like Tanaka's ability to accumulate some $10 million worth of homes and villas while a public servant...
...narrator of this small first novel is a nameless American Indian. 32 years old, "servant," as he describes himself, "to a memory of death." He already has plenty to remember. His older brother died at 14, crumpled by a car while trying to drive cattle across a Montana highway. After years of "making white men laugh" at local bars, his father failed to come home one night. He was later found frozen "stiff as a slat" in a snowdrift. The narrator thinks that something has died in him as well; he feels "no hatred, no love, no guilt, no conscience...
...legends that has grown out of the life of the Spanish painter Francisco Goya y Lucientes has a servant asking him: "Why do you paint these barbarities that men commit?" To this Goya answered: "To tell men forever that they should not be barbarians...