Word: lustful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bird Artist by Howard Norman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Here's a marvelously operatic novel, roiling with outrageous men and women and with jealousy, revenge, gunfire, deadly sea swells and lust in a lighthouse, all set in the tiny Newfoundland community of Witless Bay (one store, one restaurant, a sawmill and a drydock) just after the turn of the century. The author writes well against this florid grain, producing extravagant melodrama in language that is strict, laconic and evocative...
There's no guise -- fighting feminist or yuppie careerist, prudish housewife | or pouty adolescent, barroom slut or abused bride -- that Bridget won't assume to win this game. Her quick changes are funny. So is her chilly single- mindedness. And so is the eagerness of males, stupefied by lust, to be taken in by her. Fiorentino is ferociously good in the role. If first-time screenwriter Steve Barancik conceived it as a parody of have-it-all feminism, this actress doesn't acknowledge it. She's after the humor of humorlessness, the nuttiness of self-interest untrammeled by sentiment...
True enough, the Bible has a great deal to say on the subject of zippers or their A.D. 1 equivalent. Thou shalt not lust after your neighbor's wife or livestock. Thou shalt not spill the seed that was intended for your brother's widow. Thou shalt not divorce and, better yet, not even marry in the first place but wander around single and celibate, spreading the word...
...science. Wright designed The Moral Animal as an introduction to the new field of evolutionary psychology, the study of the genetic basis of human emotion and thought. "The everyday feelings that guide us through our lives are the products of evolution -- among them are guilt, compassion, envy, love, lust, our sense of justice," he says. If that sounds like a prescription for predetermination, even fatalism, Wright points out that what is natural is not necessarily unchangeable. "The good news," he says, "is that qualities like conscience and a sense of justice have a biological basis. The bad news is that...
...lyric poetry about the things he loved: the forced intimacy of Manhattan foot traffic, a beach house at midnight, the fidelity in a cocker spaniel's tilted glance, the tenseness in a young wife's posture, the sweet-and-sour scents of rosemary and rue, the pulse of lust beneath a Republican vest...