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...performs sexual feats that astonish even his wife. The daughter, of course, catches on soon enough, and by now her jealousy of her mother has made them enemies. When the mother begins to rendezvous with her daughter's young man, the four are catastrophically enmeshed in feelings of lust, outrage and jealousy that swiftly reach a point of no return...
This passage of dialogue-and indeed the whole novel-is an unwitting double parody of the love game (French) and the writing game (Hemingway). It is persistent but not nearly so wily as The Law (TIME, Oct. 6, 1958), Novelist Vailland's brilliantly sardonic parable of the lust for power and the power of lust acted out in a small Italian town. In this entirely serious effort, Vailland is a kind of French Hemingway, unintentionally imitating the master. The story Fête tells is a good deal less interesting than the story it gives away, the attitudes...
...Swedish film Of Love and Lust takes its title from a book by Theodore Roik and comprises adaptations of two short stories by August Strindberg. This juxtaposition is appropriate, because the stories are valuable both as entertainment and as psychological studies. One, the story of dust, is a bitter, sardonic chronicle of a marriage without love, and the other, that of love, is a delightfully pointed satire, of Ibsen's A Doll House...
...only thing that kept the public at bay: his view of the world was one of almost unrelieved tragedy, and it was too much even for morbid-minded Vienna. He was obsessed by disease and poverty, by the melancholy of old age and the tyranny of lust. The children he painted were almost always in rags, his portraits were often ruthless to the point of ugliness, and his nudes-including several self-portraits-were stringy, contorted and strangely pathetic. The subject he liked most was the female body, which he painted in every state-naked, half-dressed, muffled...
...face with a puck, will probably be ready to go against R.P.I. In addition, the Crimson coach may use a junior who has played very little in organized hockey. Gene Daly played in the House league this fall and has practiced with the varsity recently. Welland lust might give Daly a shot at breaking into one of the regular defensive pairs...