Word: sophisticatee
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It is a rare occasion when the adjective “reptilian” can be meant as the deepest of compliment. Therefore, we must accord Ripley’s Game the proper admiration for allowing John Malkovich—the most sophisticated yet reptilian actor of our time?...
This makes one appreciate Hugo Whittier, the narrator and quasi-hero of Kate Christensen's remarkable novel The Epicure's Lament (Doubleday; 351 pages), all the more. At 40, Hugo is a lazy, handsome, brilliant, bitter, unscrupulous trust-fund dilettante who--having failed miserably as a drug dealer, gigolo and...
"I thought he was crazy," Suzana admits, when Claudio suddenly went back to school to study biology. She and their three children later followed him to the University of Florida in Gainesville, where he got his doctorate, and to Morro do Diabo, where they lived for 3 1/2 years. It...
In film style and personal temperament, the two men formed perfect bookends for '60s sex. Metzger was the European sophisticate to Meyer's canny version of the all-American yahoo rube. Metzger's films were caresses, Meyer's were comic assaults. Metzger's languid tracking shots of fabulously decadent femmes...
Iain Pears' The Dream of Scipio (Riverhead; 398 pages) ticks along at a slower, statelier pace, more like a grandfather clock. Set in Provence, it tells three stories from three eras that unfold in parallel: a 5th century Roman sophisticate faces the fall of his empire; a Renaissance man stares...