Word: lust
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...brought up to believe that sexual finesse is almost as important a social grace as, say, good table manners, it sometimes comes as a shock to be reminded that lust is one of the seven deadly sins. Moralists who insist on this fact are likely to be regarded as bores, or boors, or both. One moralist, however, who runs no such risk is a cheerful, youthful novelist named Robert Gover...
...small-town reporter covering the crime. Even as he churns out the stories that forensically call on authorities to catch "the maniac responsible," the young reporter gradually comes to a guilty recognition of his own inner feelings. His shock at seeing the body was indefinably tinctured with lust. "I saw her lying there on the cold basement floor, nude, on the cold basement floor, lovely, and over the horror of the fact washed the desire for the act, uncontrolled, it swept me under despite me, put the hatchet in my hand so my palm dreamed the hatchet's smooth...
...snatched out of themselves and whirled away in the tremendous whirlwind of the spirit of the age they have wrung out of their hearts remarkable efforts of film. They have evolved through the last decade a vast pageant of heroic drama and gentle eclogue, of delectable gaiety and dispirited lust, of mordant wit, glittering intellect, grey despair, apocalyptic spectacle and somber religious depth. They have held the camera up to life and shown humanity a true and terrifying and yet somehow heartbreakingly beautiful image of itself. They have created a golden age of cinema...
This demi-paradise, this Eden for the voracious young, throbs with girlish concern for love and money, in that order. But evil, when it is finally faced firmly by Mrs. Spark, comes in the form of lust, not for human flesh but for one of the club's principal assets -a taffeta Schiaparelli dress that is lent around among the sleeker girls for evenings on the town. Does lust for a Schiaparelli justify the burning of Eden? Is Author Spark just pulling the reader's leg? A final scene is not much help. In it, the vicar...
...Aranguren massacre was one of the bloodiest in Colombia's 15-year agony of backlands violence, which has cost well over 200,000 lives. What began in 1948 as partisan warfare between Liberals and Conservatives has degenerated over the years into banditry and blood lust virtually devoid of any political meaning. The senseless slaughter goes on although the Liberal and Conservative parties agreed to a truce in 1957. President Guillermo Leon Valencia, a Conservative, has pressed the search for known bandits; but the campaign to hunt them down appears to make some bandit chieftains all the more savage. Until...