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Well, if you have to ask, it's because the rich are back to being different. Following a brief, unsatisfying fling with modesty in the early 1990s, they've renewed their lust for luxe and are making upscale stores the brightest spot on the dowdy U.S. retail scene...
...always fall into the same trap. We want news that is interesting. We want news that is late-breaking. We want news that is exciting and that spurs excitement, disgust, lust. It must. It must. Or else we tune out and go about our business. The press often fills that inner need for stimulation but not without a backlash in negative public opinion...
...last book, In a Country of Mothers, the story of a psychoanalyst's debilitating obsession with a young patient, Homes shows a knack for intertwining two characters' pathologies. In Alice she has created a compelling ally for the pedophile, a 19-year old girl with a lust for prepubescent boys who sends him letters in prison recounting her seductions. The girl wants a mentor. Homes unsettles best when she limns this tennis-playing coed's unusual urges...
Lott has not so subtly agitated for more authority to run the Senate in Dole's absence. He has told reporters, "I do like to get up on the horse and ride." But Dole has never felt comfortable with his deputy's obvious lust for the Senate's top job, and has told friends he believes Lott mishandled parts of the telecommunications bill. A Dole ally describes Lott as a troublemaker who kicks up dust even when he stands still. Last Thursday, Lott finally offered the majority leader his endorsement for President--becoming the 38th Republican Senator...
...Fuentes, an acclaimed Mexican novelist, meets Diana Soren. From there, the reader is carried through FBI intrigue, encounters with the Black Panthers, sexual jealousy with Mexican revolutionaries. This novel leaves no stone untouched. It is an extraordinary chronicle of a history intertwined with art, and forever surrounded by love, lust, and humiliation...