Word: lustful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Goaded by her uncle-in-law (implacably played by Zachary Scott), Temple tells all in a flashback confessional. It is a litany of lust and degradation. Eight years before, Temple had been kidnaped by a spiderish hoodlum named Popeye, kept six weeks in a Memphis brothel, and ''loved it." ("Nun" is a 19th century word for whore.) A year later Temple married the slack-spined Virginia gentleman, Gowan Stevens, who had been too drunk at the time of the kidnaping to protect her. It is only when Temple proposes to relive the bad old days with...
...cardboard." His wife is socially embarrassed, for "she thought it more important to be esteemed by her concierge than by her Creator." A dutiful husband, Duperrier cultivates the seven deadly sins in the hope of losing the halo. Matters reach a hilariously poignant pitch when Duperrier blushingly prepares for lust by reading the latest sex manuals aloud. At story's end, he is a prostitute's pimp, but the nimbus of light still rings his head. The highly orthodox moral: the unmerited gift of divine grace is not man's to will or wile away...
...Batista's last years Havana became the Western Hemisphere's capital of lust and license, with touches of depravity and opulence unmatched anywhere. Brothels, such as the Mambo Club, with chic girls, matronly overseers and a consulting physician, catered to U.S. tourists. Cheaper cribs along Virtues Street enticed Cubans. There were 10,000 harlots and as many panderers. Payoffs from prostitution and gambling ran into the millions and were efficiently organized, e.g., Batista's brother-in-law had charge of slot machines...
From Van Gogh's letters have already been quarried bestsellers, psychoanalytical monographs and at least one better-than-average movie, Lust for Life (TIME, Sept. 24, 1956). But a fuller and more vivid story than any of these is revealed with the publication of The Complete Letters of Vincent van Gogh (New York Graphic Society; $50), a handsome three-volume set that includes 194 tipped-in facsimiles of the illustrations Vincent sketched into his letters, with the heedless profusion of a man who had far more confidence in his draftsmanship than in his vocabulary. No more stark and intimate...
While sexual scheming takes up a disproportionate share of The Law, Author Vailland manages to use it chiefly to accent the greed, misery and lust for power that fill his febrile small-town world. The moral of The Law is that the strong and ruthless will crush the weak and righteous almost every time-and Author Vailland has the knack of making their victory seem inevitable...