Word: lusted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...third grade at P.S. 166, that august institute of lower education on West 89th St. where I majored in messing up my desk, I learned several things. The first thing I learned was that love is cruel. This insight came when Miss Witzman, homeroom teacher and object of my lust, announced her intention to marry at year's end. Marry someone other than me, that is. I learned the second thing when fractions wormed their incomprehensible way into my arithmetic textbook. Math...
Robbery, murder, lust and revenge in a bucolic setting
...Karajan, the orchestral music comes first, even in opera. Here he conducts a vibrant, sensuous performance of Strauss's lurid opera. Behrens as Salome may lack the cruel edge of Birgit Nilsson's performance on London. But Behrens' pure voice contrasts chillingly with Salome's lust, while Van Dam's ringing Jochanaan is a saintly counterpoint in a savage world...
...advisors and soothsayers), but then I'm not sure I understand the (flamboyantly) sensual Enobarbus of this production at all (although on his own terms, Topher Dow plays him quite well). And I can't discern much directorial interpretation of the forces compelling Antony's fall, the ability of lust and indolence to dissolve a man's will--although the magnetic pull of the games of one-upmanship is clear enough. That doesn't mean that Sellars hasn't worked these things out in his own head--his synopsis the program is full of cryptic notes like "A Nixon cameo...
...publisher and Jerry's oldest friend. Jerry was Robert's best man when he got married to Emma (Penelope Wilton). In the drunken pass that ignites the affair in Scene 9, Jerry says to Emma, "I should have had you, in your white, before the wedding." Lust will find a way. Jerry rents a place in the country, and the pair make love in the afternoons. But joy is applied like a cosmetic, and pain is masked in a clipped orgy of understatement...