Word: lusted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...begun. At a press conference last week, a group of conservative Christian ministers demanded that the studio destroy all copies of the film. The ministers, who had not seen the film but had read a version of the screenplay, charged that it portrays Jesus "as a mentally deranged and lust-driven man." Said the Rev. Lloyd John Ogilvie of the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood: "It is the most serious misuse of film craft in the history of filmmaking." An ad placed by 61 Christians in the Hollywood Reporter declared, "Our Lord was crucified once on the cross. He doesn...
...armies about to pour onto the stage. The most impressive coup de theatre, however, belongs to Star Tim Pigott-Smith, a specialist in complex villains. He invades the bedroom of a sleeping princess, robs and molests her while voicing a cascading confusion of emotions -- first pride, then shame, then lust, then greed -- with the naked horror of a man facing his true nature for the first time...
...units but in the pauses, the pacing and the phrasing. Punctuation is the way one bats one's eyes, lowers one's voice or blushes demurely. Punctuation adjusts the tone and color and volume till the feeling comes into perfect focus: not disgust exactly, but distaste; not lust, or like, but love...
...acres of newsprint written on Robert F. Kennedy's death are monument to the insufficiency of words to capture very much of the horror of the event. There is something very nearly obscene in our lust for facts--interview with the Los Angeles ambulance driver or the engineer who drove the funeral train. And there is something both noble and terrifying in the passion of thousands of Americans to be part of the public mourning, shoving so hard to get near the funeral train that two are killed by an express speeding in the other direction...
OVERCOMING boredom and finding love interesting is what the three characters concentrate on for the next 50 years. Florentino seeks lust and pleasure in his experiences with his pre-teen ward, with disenchanted widows, and with prostitutes whom he refuses to pay. He shares his body with countless women, but reserves his heart for the one he loves...