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PAPAGENO the bird-catcher was clearly Bergman's favorite character, and his comic part has been so embellished that he could almost be taken for the drama's protagonist. His innocent lust for talk, food, sex, and a wife get him into all kinds of trouble; all he really wants is a woman, and he often gazes warmly into the audience, begging someone out there to be his mate and threatening suicide when no one complies. As Taminos's companion he is given a chance to endure the Trials, but he has neither the courage nor the reticence to keep...
...nameless narrator in The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum repressed all affection for his heroine, denied his own "psyche" until he broke with exasperation at the way his story had eluded his control on page 98 ("Too much is happening in this story"). One would rather trust the unashamed lust of the Au. for his main character which finally sublimates itself when he makes a nun his lover in the last fifty pages. For Boil, there is nothing so honest as sensuality: Leni's sensuality, even when she does not know Nazis kill Jews; the sensuality of anonymous lovers...
...goods, primarily oil from its jungle wells, coffee and bananas. But then hypernationalistic government ministers raised the price of oil 54&#cent; per bbl. above OPEC's price. In protest, the oil companies severely limited production. Although revenues plummeted, Ecuador's nouveau riche refused to curtail their lust for new foreign cars and TV sets, thereby helping to create a trade deficit that for the first six months of 1975 was an estimated $170 million...
...consumed with lust, to his own shuddering surprise and chagrin, but he does not bridle his concupiscent deskes. He issues a quid pro quo: Isabella's virginity for her brother's life. She is appalled and rather loftily tells Claudio to be resigned to his death. She is not what she seems, for to a Christian no defiling of the body can remotely affect the integrity of the soul...
Taylor's lust for violence took bizarre forms. At 18, he was charged with attacking a woman with a wrench as she stepped off a bus in St. Petersburg, Fla. A jury acquitted him. At 21, he drove through four Detroit suburbs firing a gun at women. He wounded two, and was billed by local newspapers as "the phantom sniper." A psychiatrist testified in court that "he is unreasonably hostile toward women, and this makes it very possible that he might very well kill a person." Taylor was declared insane and committed to Michigan's Ionia State Hospital...