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...naked and untrammeled figures disporting themselves in the world outside, and a scene of dark punishment in Hell. Most critics hold this to be a logical sequence of Creation, worldly pleasure and eternal punishment. Fränger disagrees. He believes that Bosch's naked figures represent not lust but "primal innocence." In his view, the artist was portraying an "Adamite family ... in which unbounded sensual delight and serene chastity hold equal sway...
...lucky American character," Ehrenburg admitted that it does have a "certain charm." "It is time the plain American should understand that Russians are not massing to deprive him of his little Ford, that the Chinese have no intention of meddling with his television programs, that Koreans do not lust after Mr. Smith's refrigerator...
...Versailles. It told a tragic story of boredom and bankruptcy, of bonds lying loose in a treasury vault at Arras, and of a hero who had found neither peace nor prosperity in victory. His substance wasted in extravagant living and rash business deals, De Récy's lust for adventure had led him into a conspiracy with four accomplices to steal the bonds. Soon afterward, the thieves had had a falling out. One of them was picked up trying to cash in the bonds...
...desire to see the already existing friendly relations between Iran and England grow more & more every day, and I have always attempted to preserve these good relations. However, to my great regret, the lust and greed of those individuals who have been beneficiaries of the former Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. have complicated the situation so much that the Iranian Government has not been able, so far, to make any small sales transaction on its oil. They have the wrong notion in their minds that by bringing economic pressure upon Iran, they can make us submit to being longer exploited...
...they had exchanged a few prances and roars, seven more brightly costumed devils strutted forward to shout their vain glorious boasts and be routed, one by one, by Michael. Envy ("I am the worst of the capital sins") wore a mask of interlaced serpents; Sloth was a yawning frog; Lust was masked by lizards. Last of all came La Diabla, the she-devil. With her seductive smile and flouncing skirts, provocatively hoisted as she danced, the tempting she-devil managed to give the archangel a bad half-hour...