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Madonna - or Madonna Louise Ciccone, as her birth certificate reads in Bay City, Mich. - has an action-packed body, always prominently on display, and doleful, knowing eyes that seem to encourage every male fantasy of lust with no limits. "Baby Dietrich!" exclaimed Glamour Photographer Francesco Scavullo as he shot a fashion layout of the abrasively photogenic young (24) woman. If she could get her voice around a song the way she moves her shape for the camera, she would be pure nitro...
...Pepys cannot be said to have invented the diary form, Mallon observes, "he more or less perfected it." Crack open his daybooks anywhere and a surprisingly modern figure emerges, with his ambition, flaws and lust intact. ) He plays up to the powerful, pans a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream, watches a cockfight, tells the story of how his wife burned her hand. Always on the prowl for a likely wench, he writes, in his easily decipherable code, about Deb, a servant: on March 31, 1668, "Yo did take her, the first time in my life, sobra me genu...
...Loma Linda doctors did not. Hence the unease. One does not have to impute venal motives-a desire for glory or a lust for publicity-to wonder about the ethics of the choice. The motive was science, the research imperative. Priority was accorded to the claims of the future, of children not yet stricken, not yet even born...
Further amplification is provided. "Lust plus fear plus love plus faith times Frankie equals some kind of bang." And, it might be added, a considerable amount of bucks. None of the heart-stopping chart figures chronicling Frankie's astounding home land success are provided, perhaps because the stats are so widely known and already en route into the pantheon of pop trivia...
...Kurt Weill's, the words are as bitterly ironic as Brecht's. Throughout Marat/Sade, the singers repeat the refrain: "Marat we're poor/And the poor stay poor,/Give us a rise and we don't care how,/Give us a revolution...now!" The link between mass revolt and sexual lust is the theme of another rollicking song: "And what is the point of a revolution/But general copulation?" On the word "copulation", the singers perform a neatly-choreographed little wind-up dance...