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Word: lustful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moving the cast around a bit too hectically. The second act, however, is spectacular. It depicts a ferocious battle between the Guelphs and the Ghibellines, replete with whizzing crossbow arrows and hurtling fireballs. Conductor James Levine goes straight for the jugular, giving Francesco's high quotient of lust and mayhem its full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Looking for a Lost Generation | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

...police, prison and underworld slang, as well as Russian obscenity. The writer is currently at work on a novel about a Soviet exile in the U.S. Its hero is a small-time Soviet Casanova who ceaselessly roams the country in a rented car in search of love and lust. He finds both with a succulent female FBI agent who, although she has been sent to investigate him, is enchanted with his line of sexy talk. Aleshkovsky, who teaches a class in conversational Russian at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., says: "I speak foully because the Russian language is being driven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Soviet Literature Goes West | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

...lust dual and home meet of the season, the Harvard women's swimming team pulled off a mild upset, downing the University of Pennsylvania, 83-57, Saturday at Blodgett Pool. Penn had already toppled Yale, which pounded the Crimson earlier this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women's Swimming | 2/21/1984 | See Source »

...Regan, played by Galina Volchek, who seems dementedly swollen with her own evil, any other face for the wicked sister is impossible to imagine. By contrast, Edmund (Regimantas Adomaitis) oozes with so much dark sexuality that it's no wonder Regan and Goneril are eventually destroyed by their unrequited lust for him. The fool is aptly played by Otar Dal who with his frail, bony body and shorn head bears a haunting resemblance to a concentration camp victim...

Author: By Mary F. Cliff, | Title: Above the Language Barrier | 2/17/1984 | See Source »

Barnes' lust for vengeance is a more credible explanation, especially since he had to implicate himself in eight murders in order to explain what his former friends did. Prosecutors believe that after switching prisons in 1981, Barnes began getting more news from the outside world, and he did not like what he heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Telling Tales | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

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