Word: erosion
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From the seminary, which he leaves for reasons of "Eros generally, not Eros specifically," Wills slings himself into Bill Buckley's energetic orbit of lively conversation, sailboats and sports cars whose "constant whirrings down, fussy tuggings, and resumed flight seemed a nuisance rather than a luxury." In a holding...
They whirl around the discotheques, the baths, and the men's room at Grand Central Station, with their clear plastic belts and work boots and Technicolor T-shirts, till Sutherland overdoses and Malone disappears into Long Island Sound. Passion is a cancer; eros and thanatos, interwoven.
CASTRO'S COSTUMES are interesting variations on the usual Roman garb: robes looped and pinned in assorted way, often split up the sides exposing the loin-cloths beneath. Caligula wears especially formidable garments, a black robe in the first act, a red robe in the second, and in the death...
At once a slave to Eros and a master of repression, Kepesh struggles between these two facets of his character. But this set pattern of restlessness, dissatisfaction and destruction continues through his other relationships. He marries Helen, a beautiful, adventurous, femme fatale and then proceeds to try to domesticate her...
That rubdown was inspiration-and the initial field research-for a projected 800-page magnum opus on sex, a work that Talese hoped would do for Eros what his earlier books had done for the New York Times and the Mafia. Instead, it has become perhaps the most famous unwritten...