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This is a cold, autumnal book. The question is never deemed worth asking, whether this life was worth living. There is nothing here of the noble Willa Gather nostalgia for a Nebraska full of giants, or the facile Hemingway nostalgia for a Michigan of pliant girls and truly good trout. By the time Floyd is murdered for his watch, he has swollen into a huge and lonely figure. His death can stand for that of the white man's America, or of the whole human race. He never has had much use for that latter one anyway...
Solitude passes from master to master like a pliant zombie. She and other slaves become, as one wise old black says, "puppets in the white man's dream." When the French Revolution reaches Guadeloupe, the slaves are freed and the plantations burned. But in 1802 a treaty between France and England reopens the seas to the sugar trade, and bondage returns. Eventually Solitude joins the scattering of rebels, hunts her hunters in a trance of fury and becomes something of an island legend...
Cerebral Lovers. The father, known as P.Q., is a freethinking, argumentative intellectual who runs a tatty laundry, more or less when he feels like it. His wife is a pliant, childlike female, very like their eldest and prettiest daughter, Irene. Most of the novel is devoted to Urie, who is 13 when the book begins; she is an avowed bluestocking blessed with ambition and "a thick ego." Then there is Sylvia, 11, a charming but unfathomable sprite who is called "Loco Poco." Shortly after arriving in Ephesus, Urie forms an intense friendship with an ignorant but brilliant local boy named...
...sleazy horror film called Count Yorga, Vampire contained even more than the usual quota of gore, including a sequence in which a pliant young woman has an orgasm while a vampire sucks blood from her neck. The board wanted to rate the film either R (anyone under 17 restricted unless accompanied by parent or guardian) or X (forbidden entirely to those under 17 or, in some places, 18). The studio agreed to cut some of the bloodier footage and finally won a GP rating. What remained under the GP label included a shortened version of the jugular orgasm...
...protagonist and a lethal dose of cynicism to the script. Kristoffer Tabori plays an adolescent Alfie with vigor, humor and great promise, qualities that the movie itself lacks completely. He spends most of his time bounding around Albuquerque, sleeping with a high school coach's wife, seducing pliant teeny-boppers and-understandable after all the frenetic activity-nodding out in class. Aficionados of Hollywood bad taste will have much to cherish in Making It, but nothing will please them so much as the scene in which the Tabori character feels closer to his mother after he is forced...