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Also a 1990s price tag: $50,000. On a per-horsepower basis, that compares favorably with the Acura NSX and Ferrari. But for red-blooded Americans who dream of empty roads and police in innocent Chevys, the homegrown Viper is likely to be more a matter of pure lust...
That does leave a nice question: Is Catherine in her right mind? Nick Curran (Michael Douglas) doesn't care. He's a hot-tempered, danger-loving cop who learns, as he investigates a murder in which she is indeed the likeliest suspect, and falls in lust with her, that she intends to use him as the subject of her next book. But, hey, when the sex is this good, why should he pause to count its potential costs...
Miranda's book may be uneven, but any novel with a silver-armed villain who suffers from an inferiority complex, an ecclesiastical hero driven by lust and armed with Gongora and a rapier tongue and set in a city where the whores exert the most influence--is irresistible...
...through engravings, above all, that Mantegna was able to reimagine classical motifs in all their grief, exaltation and lust. The satyr clutching the drunken boy in his Bacchanal with a Wine Vat has to be the sharpest and least prudish image of homosexual desire in all Renaissance art. The mountainous folds of skirt in Mantegna's engraving of the Virgin and Child, arguably the most beautiful print made by any Italian during the Renaissance and only to be rivaled by Durer, support a protective gesture of inexpressible tenderness, in which the Madonna seems to be drawing her son back into...
...three Macintosh screens. Smoke enough crack to make Marion Barry's drug habit look like a day at the beach. Have sex, lots of sex, in many different places, in many different positions--and preferably with many different people of many different genders and species. Steal. Covet. Lust. commit adultery. dishonor your father and mother (the best method is to tell them about all the guilt they made you feel as a child). And, if necessary, kill-roommates, advisors, cheerful juniors, people who finished their theses a month early are all legitimate targets. Sin is everything you'd hope...