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Covetousness, for those who don't sin or don't keep count, is the second deadly sin. Pride is the first, and lust is No. 3, though not necessarily in order of popularity. In Lawrence Sanders' new novel, these and most of the other numbered transgressions come into play as someone murders Painter Victor Maitland at his studio in Lower Manhattan...
Despite his strength and bat speed, Carew completely avoids the modern hitter's greatest weakness: the instinct to pull the pitch on the shortest line to the nearest fence. The lust for the long ball and the glory of homers has contributed as much to the decline in high-average hitters in the post-World War II era as the oft-cited rise of relief pitching. Trying to cream a fastball low and away is a sure way to strike...
Magical Memories. In nature, beauty is the beast. This is also true in much of Nabokov's fiction. The delectable nymphet Lolita has a cruel, popsicle heart. The exquisite sensibilities of her middle-aged lover Humbert Humbert are grotesquely twisted by lust. Charles Kinbote, whose magical memories feed Pale Fire, is hopelessly mad, as is Luzhin, the chessmaster in The Defense...
Still, there is no racial slur in the first two episodes of Soap that Archie Bunker has not uttered before. Though the sex jokes may be new to prime time, they are familiar to anyone who has watched Mary Hartman or followed what seems to be the terminal lust of the Globatron girls in All That Glitters. Seven years ago ABC rejected All in the Family, a fact that officials of network affiliates still discuss with steel in their voices. For Norman Lear, who produced all three shows, Soap is the sincerest form of flattery, a sweaty attempt to play...
...this time in Washington. Noelle manages to hire Larry, recently out of work and desperate for a job, as the pilot of her private plane. She subjects him to one humiliation on top of another before he finally retaliates by brutally kissing her. She melts and love, or rather lust, conquers all. The two plan to murder Larry's wife and the story goes on. And on. Ad infinitum. Ad nauseum...