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...police state in Chile. By covering up the unconscionable with the implausible, Messrs. Ford and Kissinger have again pulled us toward the mire of political mendacity. The large question is whether the U.S. can be both an imperial power and a democracy. Imperial-minded men are afflicted with a lust for secrecy that feeds their overweening pride in power. If the CIA sticks to intelligence gathering and gives up its covert operations, both the need and the appetite for secrecy might well be curbed. This proposal cuts to the political left as well as to the right. It means that...
...William Faulkner talked about modern novelists in his Nobel speech and how they have to deal with conflicts of the heart, with pride, and love, and lust. And it seems here in Something Happened you're dealing with nothing more than a kind of middle-class angst...
Charlie and Bill stop at nothing in their lust for gambling, be it in cards or crap or horses or basketball, and most of us would look on them as freakish characters crazy enough to risk their savings on the roll of a die. But, after two hours of witnessing the frenetic, unmitigated pace of their lives, of their willingness to completely expose themselves to the fancy of fortune and the possibility of disaster, I felt a fascination much different from that usually associated with watching freaks like the fat lady at the circus. Instead, I felt the same amused...
...turns out that Omar is sincere enough, both in his growing anxiety to do a little espionage work and in his well-oiled lust for Julie. Just as she be gins to warm to him - despite an initial reserve that would have done Mary Poppins credit - his enemies at the KGB grow bolder. He requires Julie as a go-between to trade for his asylum a nice piece of intelligence: the name of Russia's top agent in Britain...
This amused look at eroticism is the business of the story collection Laughable Loves. The book is light, wry and wise. Over and over again, Kundera sets up the classic situation of sexual farce: A realizes intuitively that B is interested, and therefore swells with vanity and lust; in reality, however, B's interest is in C, whose tender signals are meant...