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Gradually, with the help of Marie St. Jacques, a Canadian economist whom he abducts and then saves from a brutal rape, Bourne-Cain learns that he is a tender, brave man as well. But Carlos is determined to destroy his reputed rival. So are Cain's former masters in the Washington intelligence establishment, who had originally set him up to trap Carlos and are now persuaded that he has turned. Bourne's deadliest enemy, however, is his former self. The only credentials he can recover from his past are those of a sadistic executioner in Viet...
...life. Partway through freshman year I had a fiery emotional involvement with a guy who lived in my dorm. We were both immature and it ended with a lot of hurt feelings, but I'd learned that sex with a man wasn't dirty, in fact it could be tender and fulfilling, and even more important, I'd seen that I could care deeply for a man, give my love to him, and live a fuller life for it. Slowly I began to "come out" to my friends, and if they were shocked at first, they usually saw that...
...Happy!! doesn't obscure Elvis's problems, though. Sometimes, as on "Love for Tender," he seems like a rock and roll Noel Coward. His lyrics often get tangled in their own trickery, he mixes metaphors, he uses personal pronouns interchangeably and his enunciation is appalling. (I realize that these are symptoms of most rock artists, but Elvis is above all that.) Often it's a major task to determine the subject of a song, and it may take weeks of intense listening to discern any coherence. But the songs deepen with each newly-discovered phrase, and the rewards are great...
...side of the album is preoccupied with prostitutes, meaning all women, from the cheerily impersonal, pun-riddles "Love For Tender," to the spare, sprightly "Opportunity," with Steve Naive's organ bouncing brightly around the upper register as Elvis sings of the War, the baby boom, no jobs, and women who earned their money by pushing their "bedroom eyes." In "New Amsterdam," Elvis's deprecatory hymn to New York, the waltz time perfectly captures the invisible chains of people "living a life that is almost like suicide...
...work to the screen. It works as if the novella had been the treatment for a screenplay. Like O'Connor, they make these characters seem natural when, in fact, they are grossly unnatural. When Haze wraps himself in barbed wire, a sequence that is at first horrifying becomes tender and comic because these characters really breathe, bleed and smile. Fitzgerald even allows some of O'Connor's imagery to creep into the dialogue when Enoch describes a woman with "hair so thin it looked like ham gravy trickling over her skull...