Word: lusted
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...Regan, played by Galina Volchek, who seems dementedly swollen with her own evil, any other face for the wicked sister is impossible to imagine. By contrast, Edmund (Regimantas Adomaitis) oozes with so much dark sexuality that it's no wonder Regan and Goneril are eventually destroyed by their unrequited lust for him. The fool is aptly played by Otar Dal who with his frail, bony body and shorn head bears a haunting resemblance to a concentration camp victim...
Barnes' lust for vengeance is a more credible explanation, especially since he had to implicate himself in eight murders in order to explain what his former friends did. Prosecutors believe that after switching prisons in 1981, Barnes began getting more news from the outside world, and he did not like what he heard...
...19th century bourgeoisie acquired its dismal reputation partly because of what Gay calls its "lust to conceal" and partly because historians have been too inclined to listen to its cultural leaders, its pedagogues, its doctors and divines, who imposed on their society what Gay calls "learned ignorance." Any aspect of sex that diverged from the biblical injunction to be fruitful and multiply, they taught, was immoral and therefore must not happen...
...Attic were perhaps the greatest paintings of de Kooning's long career, the best known are certainly the Women. De Kooning has always been obsessed, as a painter, with the bodies of women, quoting them in whole and in detail, with a unique mingling of distance, intimacy, lust, humor and spite. In them, the billowy amplitude of Rubens' flesh is sometimes reborn, along with the sardonic affection Reginald Marsh felt for his Coney Island cuties. But the women of the early '50s are his canonical ones-part archaic Ishtar, part Amsterdam hooker and part Marilyn. Their most...
...Heart of the Country, Waiting for the Barbarians), J.M. Coetzee turned his apocalyptic eye on his native South Africa. The subjects of his books-race war, state violence and personal vengeance-had a distinctive local color. Now the Afrikaner author goes straight to the center of mankind's lust for self-destruction. The scene of Life and Times of Michael K is only incidentally South Africa. The subject is terminal civil war; the time is the end of the world...