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...plush, colonnaded picture gallery, Lord Pengo (Charles Boyer) wheedles, cajoles, amuses, and stimulates a cultural lust for owning Giorgiones and Masaccios in the blank-walled minds of crotchety, sulky and pinchpenny plutocrats. But, as someone says, for him selling is "a kind of disembodied activity, like praying," and disembodiment is the felt mood of the evening. Behrman dutifully tries to fire Pengo and Co. with emotions. Pengo rages at his petulant and priggishly high-minded son (Brian Bedford). He feels pity for a twitchily neurotic moneybag (Ruth White), for his loyal secretary (Agnes Moorehead), and for a lonely press-maligned...
Seven were the sins-pride, covetousness, lust, anger, gluttony, envy and sloth -that the early Christian theologians labeled capital, or deadly, on the ground that they led to the commission of other offenses against God.* For most 20th century men, the list seems a trifle quaint. In a world where millions are hungry because there is too little food, and millions more because they are dieting, gluttony, for example, takes on certain ironies...
...week, Vassall lived in a comfortable Pimlico flat whose proudest ornament was an antique, $1,000 Queen Anne wardrobe. He had 100 silk ties, 19 suits. By paying him nearly as much as the Admiralty did, the Russians helped maintain his high living standard. "He was trapped by lust," said Attorney General Sir John Hobson, "and cash kept him a prisoner." Vassall, pleading guilty to four counts of espionage, drew an 18-year sentence...
Before the first trickle of sunlight, lust, cynicism and murder get their melodramatic comeuppance. The meek do inherit the earth, but boredom has long since claimed the stage...
...been put on film with relative case and with assured financial success. But it is not D. H. Lawrence's story. The movie version is not a tender love story, or the portrait of a woman being re-awakened to life, but merely a chronicle of fortuitous mutual lust...