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...Renaissance viewed the history of Antony and Cleopatra as a story of a great man's degradation due to the "Unreined lust of concupiscence," as North put it in his translation of Plutarch. But Shakespeare recognized that enormous passion is the essence of heroic drama. If Antony's blood batters down his mind in Shakespeare's source, in the play Antony's heart struggles toward reconciliation with his will. Antony and Cleopatra includes the traditional Renaissance argument of noble mind and temperate valor, but does not accept its sagacity...
Even now, when Robby has begun to mellow after four years of making things interesting for people, he still feels that old lust for the unusual. So last winter, invited to be Wesleyan's basketball mascot, with carte blanche to put on his own halftime show, Bordley was waiting in the passageway just before time ran out in the second quarter-Nude...
...K.K.K. and CORE share the same sort of motivation. He proceeds through the American Revolution, the Indian revolts, the Civil War, various agrarian rebellions and labor-management wars, before confronting his main topic: race riots, early and late. Rubenstein demonstrates that in each case the oppressed group's lust for independence-through integration or separatism-is so powerful, indeed biological, an urge that it will not bear indefinite frustration...
OBSCENITY. In recent years the court has held that First Amendment guarantees of free speech protect a wide range of material, from Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer to potboilers like Lust Pool and Shame Agent. Here, too, Burger would back off. In a dissent from a ruling that the film I, a Woman is not obscene, Burger argued that the court "should not inflexibly deny to each of the states the power to adopt and enforce its own standards...
...Throughout Larry Kramer's literate scenario the Lawrentian themes blaze and gutter. The sooty mind-crushing coal mines that young Lawrence knew like the back of his land are re-created in all their malignance. The annealing quality of sex is exhibited in the most erotic-and tasteful-lust scenes anywhere in contemporary film. The century's agonies are brilliantly prefigured in a series of poor and privileged characters who speak out against forces they can discern but not define...