Word: lusted
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...this period that is warmly evoked by Novelist Halldor Laxness, 64, who won the 1955 Nobel Prize for such works as Independent People, a story of immemorial peasant life, and Salka Valka, a sociological study of corruption, lust and politics in an Icelandic fishing village. In most of his later novels, Laxness seems to be reliving incidents from his own past. In this book, his narrator is a boy named Alfgrirn, who was born near Reykjavik as the 20th century dawned. His mother, a young woman bound for America, had paused in Brek-kukot at the friendly cottage of Bjorn...
...uses lust to impel men to marriage, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind horse...
Three girls come in. Down the aisle in hip-huggers, and mini-skirts. The six turn and lust frantically...
...with undeviating severity while the Duke masquerades as a lowly friar. In a fury of purity, Angelo orders a young gentleman, Claudio, to be executed for fornication. Claudio's sister Isabella, a novice in religious habit, pleads with Angelo to show mercy. Suddenly his puritanical iciness melts into lust, and he offers Isabella her brother's life in exchange for her body. Through one of Shakespeare's wrong-girl-in-the-right-bed ploys, Isabella preserves not only Claudio's life but her own honor...
...Flindt himself. After a grotesquely forceful solo, he engages the streetwalker-provocatively danced by Vivi Gelker-in a scorching sensual pas de deux. The gangsters move in and repeatedly stab and then strangle him. But he refuses to die, and in desperation they hang him from a "column of lust." Still he lingers, and the streetwalker, strangely touched by the power of his passion, embraces him and, after one final moment of redemption, he expires...