Word: carnalities
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...drop. Happily, Malcolm Muggeridge does not maintain a testamental tone throughout his selected diaries from 1932 to 1962. Despite the sackcloth prose, Muggeridge made his reputation as a restless journalist, BBC wit, and the scapegrace editor of Punch. When he is not ostentatiously wishing for death or lamenting his carnal desires for this or that mistress, he remains a world-class caricaturist...
...with this shaggy act of atonement. It is not his fault that he was seven years between pictures, or that his new one seems almost (Gasp!) normal in its story of yet one more mad housewife: Susan Anspach finds fear, loathing, debasement-in short, liberation-when she joins a carnal carnival of Slavic immigrants. Montenegro is a Laurel-and-Hardy jalopy of a film, putting along impudently and then suddenly stalling, out of everything but gall. In these timid days, gall may be enough, especially with Makavejev behind the camera and Anspach in front, giving one of the year...
...Carnal Knowledge (1971) d. Mike Nichols...
...school, he explored that subject gingerly at first, amid prodigious feasts on books (a lifelong lust) and feats of writing (his first novel). But carnal knowledge, too, became an irresistible pursuit. In Calcutta, where he journeyed to study with Surendranath Dasgupta, the celebrated historian of Indian philosophy, he was invited to live in the teacher's home. There he began an affair with Dasgupta's daughter...
...simple assessment of Sadat is therefore likely to be mistaken. Dozens of visiting Americans were charmed by him. But he was also aloof and reflective and withdrawn. Like many men of power, he had an almost carnal relationship with authority. He could hold his own with small talk, but on deeper acquaintance it became clear that it bored him. He much preferred to spend his idle time in solitary reflection in his restless peregrinations around his beloved country...