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...prose is more than ever remarkable for its astonishing and somewhat studied brilliance. As before. Updike finds his way more accurately than almost anyone else now writing to the small touchstones of mind and memory; there is the little shock, and then yes, that is how first lust feels, how an auto repair shop tastes, how it is to wake up in a strange bed when it has snowed through the night. The author does this so well that the reader can find himself at the point of tears as he is prodded to recall (where are you now. Gwendolyn...
...cities of the plain," and salty was their reputation. "God gave them up," St. Paul says, "unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another." To a moviemaker, the subject presents certain problems of visualization. But Producer Goffredo Lombardo, one of Italy's mightiest cinemagnates, is no man to be daunted by difficulties. De Luxe Color, cast of thousands, budget of $5,000,000-he spared no effort in Sodom...
Desire Under the Elms, by Eugene O'Neill, seems, after 38 years, as familiar as inherited folklore. It is the mid-19th century New England saga of the flinty, greedy. God-bedeviled, lust-maddened Cabot clan and its internecine struggle over the family farm. To possess it. the sons wish their father dead, brother plots against brother, a young woman marries a fanatical old man, seduces his son to obtain an heir, and murders the infant to repossess the son's love. George C. Scott plays the fire-breathing old father Ephraim with monomaniacal force. As the woman...
...Lust & Hate. Munch knew the feeling well: he spent time in a mental hospital, drank heavily for many years, was involved in a number of scandalous public brawls. He was devastated by one love affair, but when he tried to break it off, the woman countered by having herself laid out as if she were dying, so he would have to come to her for a last visit. Another time she threatened to shoot herself, and one of his fingers was shot off when he grappled for the gun. Munch's attitude toward women, like the playwright Strindberg...
...diver." he explains. "For years I was content to be the guy pumping the air down to the deep-sea diver. Now I feel I've got to put on the suit myself." He pumped air to Marlon Brando in Viva Zapata! and to Kirk Douglas in Lust for Life, each time winning an Oscar as the year's best supporting actor. He created sworls of off-center violence in dozens of other good movies, from 1943's The Ox-Bow Incident to 1961's The Guns of Navarone. But despite his Oscars and his gold...