Word: lusted
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...produced so many imitators, is trying to rehabilitate Esquire. Where once, in the words of a previous editor, Esquire sought to be "smartass," it now respectfully pursues "The American Man and the New Success." Perhaps he's the same young moneymaking male in whom Playboy naturally discerns a "lust for life." Its promotion speaks unctuously of this reader as a healthy radical in the '60s who has joined a "new, but better Establishment." Penthouse sometimes sneaks in an exposé of the CIA among its sex manuals, and smirkily calls itself the magazine that "uncovers" things. Its sexy...
...psychiatrist and the volatile hatred of her former husband. After all, she is a beautiful, hip woman in New York and there are many, many eager men on the prowl. She accepts it, after an intermittent period of abstination, and considers it an adventure. We watch her fall into lust, fall into love and yet bounce out of it all without dependence of the comfortable pattern of her former marriage. She comes through with a renewed sense of self-worth and an awareness of her own needs...
...changes to build an elaborate cinematic labyrinth, and keeps us cleverly puzzled as we grope our way through. It's more accessible and less cerebral than Kubrick's recent work and still quite a fine film--as well as being one of the definitive variations on the theme of Lust's Labor's Lost...
...severed ring-cum-finger, still bleeding in a white handkerchief. Both Terris and Montgomery play the tableau to the hilt, he leering, she screaming. Afterwards, the tension becomes oppressive as the walks slowly, step by step across the tiny stage towards her, blackmailing her to give in to his lust. If the actors would take the menace in The Changeling as seriously throughout as hey do in this scene, the play would become a real thrill instead of just light entertainment...
...clearly, two helpless victims of the same system of exploitation). When Violet's virginity is served up, Fargas stands in the corner and looks sullenly down his elegant equine nose at the degenerate bidders. But it is not clear whether his roving glance is one of condemnation or hidden lust. This could be the most telling moment in the film. But as throughout the rest of the movie, Malle neglects to give us the proper emotional preparation...