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...extortion." Some critics also assail the U.S. commitment to help Iran find and recover assets of the late Shah and his family, vague and probably unenforceable as that commitment may be. Asks the Wall Street Journal: "Do we really want finally to capitulate to the Ayatullah's lust for vengeance...
...only have been matched by the new president's. There stood James Earl Carter--a veritable personification of incompetence--garbed in v-neck sweater to save energy, hiring an adviser on drugs who pushed quaaludes, and journeying to Poland to declare, through the mouth of an interpreter, his true lust for the Polish people. Meanwhile, as the director of the Office of management and Budgets stole millions from Atlanta banks, the president's right hand man was spitting Manhattans on women he didn't know and making rude comments to ambassadors' wives...
...term presidency and refused the offer of an American kingship, demonstrating that a personality, in his case not power-hungry, can sway the course of a nation. In Tito: The Story From Inside, Milovan Djilas attempts to show that Josip Broz Tito, out of a personal lust for power, established an unstable Yugoslavia that may not long survive his death...
...props, and the giant neon arch--inscribed with the names of the seven sins lighting up in succession like a stage-wide slot machine that lands on whichever sins is being acted out below. In this world, beauty becomes a painted go-go dancer, so it's no wonder lust, pride and anger should seem more virtuous than the alternatives of self-denial, hypocrisy and quiescence...
...depictions of Asians have returned to the screen and stage as vehicles of "sophisticated humor" in full technological splendor. Hasty Pudding's "A Little Knife Music" and Warner Brother's "The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu" featured stereotypic, sinister and subhuman Asian males (played by white actors) who lust after white women. Last month, Hasty Pudding offered us the female counterparts: Singapore Sue (so sweet and soft and gentle, my favorite Oriental) and Madame Sin-Sin, who together seduce and destroy Caucasian sailors...