Word: lusted
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What remained constant in Mao was his iron will, the invincible conviction of his own righteousness. Political analysts harp on two words: "speed" and "struggle." Mao had acquired the lust for speed in the last year of the revolution. In the fall of 1948 the commander in chief of his Manchurian strike forces, Marshal Lin Biao, had seized the key city of Shenyang (Mukden); but so many of Chiang Kai-shek's combat divisions were still at large in Manchuria that Lin Biao preferred to move with caution. Mao overruled him. Strike for the escape ports of Manchuria, he said...
...factors in making the system more responsive to victims is a better understanding of why people rape. The old image of a man's succumbing to uncontrollable (and, to many, understandable) lust, enticed by a provocative woman wearing sexy clothes, is fading, as is the notion that women falsely cry rape...
...limits: ethnic and racial jokes, anything remotely smutty. While Reagan can repeat punch lines about his age, it would be unseemly for a Democrat to joke about the President's advanced years. Topicality is crucial. For instance, Rollings' allusion to Carter's seven-year-old, lust-in-my-heart Playboy interview (Hollings: "I'm lusting for the nomination") does not quite work. "There are no eternal political jokes," says Mankiewicz. He crafted one of the more enduring, however, in 1968 for Robert Kennedy: "I'm not really interested in the presidency, and neither...
...renowned and innovative Mercury Theater. In 1955, when this third volume of his memoirs resumes, Houseman is about to rescue the American Shakespeare Festival at Stratford, Conn., after its wobbly first year. He has just finished a stint as a movie producer (Julius Caesar with Marlon Brando; Lust for Life with Kirk Douglas). He goes on to direct some of Playhouse 90's best episodes, then establishes a superior drama department at Lincoln Center's Juilliard School. Most of the time he is working by the light of at least one moon, directing an opera, salvaging somebody else...
...that description. It is not a question of some malformation of body à la Elephant Man, it is a question of a cancerously aberrant soul. Richard III lies somewhere between Iago, with his "motiveless malignity," and Macbeth, who has "supp'd full of horrors" in his naked, unbridled lust for power...