Word: lust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ALFIE! regards the workaday world well lost for lust. As Terence Stamp skillfully plays him in this consistently delightful and unpretentious comedy, Alfie is a cockney Casanova in the irresistible tradition of the picaresque novel...
Though he loved the masses, Eastman did not neglect individuals. "To me lust is sacred." he writes, "sexual embraces nearer to a Holy Communion than a profane indulgence-a partaking, so to speak, of the blood and body of Nature." He partook generously. Leaving his wife and child, he moved in with a comely actress, Florence Deshon, whose temperament was much like his: she had once caused a near-riot in a theater by refusing to rise for the Star Spangled Banner. The affair was a stormy one; as Eastman torridly tells it, heaven-shattering passion alternated with earth-shaking...
ALFIE! regards the workaday world well lost for lust. As Terence Stamp skillfully plays him in this consistently delightful and unpretentious comedy. Alfie is a cockney Casanova in the irresistible tradition of the picaresque novel...
Alfie! by Bill Naughton. A bird is a girl in cockney argot, and Alfie is strictly out for the birds. In this unpretentious and consistently pleasant comedy, Alfie counts the workaday world well lost for lust. He is the modern, international antihero, the man who wants to be kind to everyone and responsible...
More than likely you will find it a batty town, a town of extraordinary sophistication, of tension and irritability, of intellectuality and pseudo-intellectuality, of a haunted sort of joie de vivre, of disinterest, of anonymity, and, also, of lust, gentleness, altruism, and a peculiar brand of human affection. Some gray day when no one seems to care, stop by the tarnished statue of Hans Christian Anderson in Central Park. His nose, you'll see, his ancient bronze nose, is shinier than a new penny, twice as bright as the rest of him. It got that way from constant loving...