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Word: lusted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nearly the same genre. A clever, amoral officer is passed over a for a promotion and rages impotently against his superior (a foreigner at that!). Then he stymbles onto the great man,s weakness: a touchingly intense faith in his new bride's innocence and honesty. The officer's lust for revenge consumes him, and he spends the later half of the play ebuliently chiselling on this great, remote mound called the Moor, eventually compelled to lie and kill to keep the plot in motion. When the poor Moor finally snuffs his sweet wife, and, the officer realizes--too late...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: 'The Pity of It,' Iago | 10/30/1981 | See Source »

...school, he explored that subject gingerly at first, amid prodigious feasts on books (a lifelong lust) and feats of writing (his first novel). But carnal knowledge, too, became an irresistible pursuit. In Calcutta, where he journeyed to study with Surendranath Dasgupta, the celebrated historian of Indian philosophy, he was invited to live in the teacher's home. There he began an affair with Dasgupta's daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: I, Prodigy | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

...Sarah flees Lyme Regis in mystery. In each story a successful man throws aside his calm, well-ordered life with its calm, well-ordered love (wife and kids in one, finance in the other) in order to reach out for the mystery and excitement of an uncatchable woman. The lust and pettiness of Irons' 20th century highlight the deeper passions of the 19th-century character Irons plays. The structure of the film tries to focus on the passions within Irons as he plays two very different moths hovering around much the same flame...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Time Lapse | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

...much of a moral improvement on women, proving Daisy's dictum: "Men were all alike, though, of course, some were more alike than others." Dirk Dolfin, a one-man Dutch conglomerate with wavy blond hair and dazzling teeth, possesses the two essentials of a De Vries hero: galloping lust and crawling remorse. He is as briskly efficient at lovemaking as he is at self-reproach. After a romp among the paper clips, Dirk's afterplay consists of pillow talk about eternal damnation. Then, subsequent to monologues on, say, the doctrine of supralapsarianism, the old Dutch cleanser marches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Galloping Lust, Crawling Remorse | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

...film and the other characters sweat with her. Perspiration stains the satin sheets as Ned and Matty make love; and after, there is dew on the down of her back as she caresses and coaxes him. She is the mistress of these ceremonies, leading Ned on by his lust toward acts of love and murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Torrid Movie, Hot New Star | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

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