Word: lustful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...double irony is that because their relationship is based on original deception, their extramarital affair, it has no chance of working. Annie and Henry cling blindly to the marriage anyway, thinking that they've found the real thing. Soon love degenerates to lust, commitment becomes a bargain, and everything is a big disappointment...
What happens when I objectify a women? I look at her, as Jimmy Carter once said, "with lust in my heart." But what is wrong with lust?, I wonder. It is a feeling as legitimate as any other, yet I am expected to downgrade and repress it, to deny that I can desire a woman just for her looks...
...streets with the poor, a whole country up in flowers. In a short string of remarkable days a crooked election was held and exposed; a dignified woman established her stature and leadership; a despot ranted, sweated, fled; a palace changed guard--all with a minimum of blood lust and an abundance of determination and common national will. Not since 18th century France have Americans approved so heartily of a rebellion...
...Hewitt '87 of Cabot House, simply prefer their chow to be prepared differently. Hewitt says she resents the resemblance of skincredibles to a sort of main-course french fry. "I think the potatoes should be baked, and I want them to be filled with steamed vegetables," she says. "I lust after steamed vegetables...
Booze, broads and bribes--what 19th century Congressional Correspondent Edward Winslow Martin called "the levers of lust"--are no longer the tools of the trade. This is not to say, however, that lobbyists have stopped wining and dining Congressman and their staffs. Public records indicate that Ways and Means Chairman Rostenkowski spends about as much time playing golf as the guest of lobbyists at posh resorts as he does holding hearings in Washington...