Word: lusted
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...western lust. I am drowning in this past...
...lust that wins the viewers' closest attention. Once the radio soap operas seemed as spotless as if they had been scrubbed down by the sponsor's product; now the TV actors seem to need their mouths washed out with it. The girl who wondered if her parents knew about her abortion used to be put off with a sigh; now she is told outright: "No, they think you have ruptured ovarian cysts." Confidential for Women presents melodramas of domestic relations out of Albee by Metalious. He: "I hope our daughter doesn't turn into a dried...
...example, worshiped at least 700 deities. Yet even those who ranked highest in the divine hierarchies were hardly more than invisible supermen. The Zeus of ancient Greece, although supreme on Olympus, was himself subject to the whims of fate?and besides that was so afflicted by fits of lust that he was as much the butt of dirty jokes as an object of worship...
...director (Ulf Thomson), a Greek baritone (Rudolf Constatin), an Australian soprano (Althea Bridges), a Japanese basso (Kunikazu Ohashi) and a Spanish tenor (José Maria Perez). The libretto deals with Attila's siege of Italy in the 5th century and is embellished with the usual subplots of revenge, lust and political hanky-panky. What makes the opera worth the salvaging is the vigor and sheer melodic beauty of the score. Though Verdi the patriot worked at odds with Verdi the composer, the fervor of his convictions could occasionally inspire him as well. The opening aria "Let us be free...
...grand dragons, a kludd and a kladd were cited for contempt of Congress. Yet the inquiry served a useful purpose, if only by giving an opportunity to a sorry klutch of knackers, knarks and Knipperdollings* to document for themselves that "the invisible empire" is moved as much by dollar lust as by racial hatred...