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...also retained in the picture for its universal appeal. There is an incredible technical skill in the way the tiny putty figures are handled. And the grotesque gesticulations and grimaces with which they express themselves, besides being an artistic triumph in caricature, are powerful agents in satirizing a capitalistic lust and craftiness...
...gives himself more latitude with Mrs. Alden, and with old Nathaniel Alden, Oliver's millionaire uncle. They could have stepped out of Sinclair Lewis in their smugness, their fear and hate of the world, their lust for propriety. Two of a kind, again, though utterly different from the former, are Mario van der Weyer and Jim Darnley, the skipper of Peter Alden's yacht. Frankly sensual both, romantic and intelligent, the line between them is one solely of birth and breeding...
None of the founders of modern art has been richer game for the journalist than Vincent van Gogh. Within the past two years two lives of him have been best sellers, one a novel, Lust for Life by Irving Stone,* another a scholarly biography by able Art Critic Julius Meier-Graefe (TIME...
...under which the magazine was banned comes from Chapter 272, Section 30, of the Massachusetts General Statutes, reading, "Whoever sells . . . to a minor . . . a magazine devoted to the publication of or principally made up of criminal news, police reports, or accounts of criminal deeds, or pictures or stories of lust or crime; or exhibits upon a public way or in any other place within the view of a minor . . . shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than two years or by a fine of not less than one hundred or more than one thousand dollars." Other statutes also applied...
...received at court. Slowly she ingratiated herself, devoting her tenacity, her resourcefulness, her frowsy full-blown beauty to the sordid ends of money and social position. No romance graced her relationship with the Prince. "On neither side was there any but ignoble passions . . . the lover's half senile lust . . . the mistress's vulgar greed for vulgar gains." Sophie was an example of a "common, inoffensive human weakness, snobbishness, provoking murder, most appalling of human crimes...