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...ARTS Books: The Lust of Exploration Books: Family Phantoms...
Harvey has mined this territory before, but who cares? Love is a pretty expansive purlieu after all, and she's chasing anger, hate and lust too. Her lyrics aspire to poetry and sometimes get there--"It turns me on to imagine/Your blue eyes on my words" she says on The Letter--but it's her voice that does the heavy lifting. On Cat on the Wall and The Life and Death of Mr. Badmouth, she howls simple phrases until they sound a little like sex and a little like pain. On The Slow Drug, her hush leads into the dead...
Sarah and Todd are extramarital sex waiting to happen. But the course of hot, forbidden lust never did run smooth, and Perrotta throws in its way, among other things, a recently paroled child molester named Ronnie McGorvey. An evil, curdled mama's boy, Ronnie, in a perverse way, seems to personify the selfish desires and stunted soul of the suburbs. The people we meet in Little Children are bewildered, frozen in shock at the tepidity of the present, even though they have worked their whole lives to get exactly where they...
...dismiss him, something Cavani plays up. It is this contrast that made Hannibal Lecter so scary in The Silence of the Lambs and so empty in Hannibal: his pleasure and thus the audience’s pleasure in his pleasure was lost in the transition from surprising lust to tedious psychosis...
...like Joel, with love in his eyes and lust for a strange adventure...