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The problem is that we are becoming a nation of cowards and voluptuaries, either egging on or sitting passively as abuse and contempt take over our political discourse.
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Of these, Polynesia — a triangle drawn from New Zealand to Hawaii to the remote Chilean territory of Rapa Nui — has most compelled the world's attention, typically as a projection of repressed Western desire: an ahistorical haven peopled by flower-bedecked voluptuaries from a Paul Gauguin canvas.
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The joke, with Masina, is that she couldn't be further from the voluptuaries who stalk through her husband's tales; with Mastroianni, the joke is that, though forever cast as a seducer, he is visibly hesitant and shy, halfhearted and half-cocked, as if embarrassed by the sway of his own lusts.
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That is partly Shaw's doing: In establishing the "pretty and amiable voluptuaries" assembled in the peculiar, ship-shaped house in the Sussex countryside where the play takes place, he is simulating the moral vacuum that allowed bosses like Mangan to thrive, and that helped create the conditions for World War I. That vacuum is represented theatrically by the drawing-room-comedy conventions that set the plot in motion.
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We both applaud and cringe when it changes hands and becomes first a venue for the '70s subculture, with its voluptuaries, dropouts, druggies and rock musicians, its wealthy patrons and hangers-on, and then, at the end, a "public show" with a little train that takes tourists on rides through the estate, a wildlife park, a craft center and garden shop and — the ultimate indignity — a television series whose measure of success is its sale to an American network.
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In the introduction, the Marquis de Sade exhorts his readers to indulge in the various activities in the play. He says that the work is dedicated to "voluptuaries of all ages, of every sex" and urges readers to emulate the characters. "Lewd women", he writes, "let the voluptuous Saint-Ange be your model; after her example, be heedless of all that contradicts pleasure's divine laws, by which all her life she was enchained." He then urges "young maidens" to copy Eugénie; "be as quick as she to destroy, to spurn all those ridiculous precepts inculcated in you by imbecile parents".
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