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...made headlines, and its most notable coup, the 1976 interview with Jimmy Carter, is surely the most candid self-analysis ever volunteered by anyone about to become President. (Playboy has been capitalizing on Carter's famous word ever since, assuring advertisers that the Playboy reader's "lust for life" makes him an impulsive big spender.) Within the past year, while Penthouse in particular has made its inside text more blatant and kinkier, both Playboy and Penthouse have toned down the nudity of their covers. Guccione, whose Penthouse makes more money for news dealers than any other magazine...
From Caruso to Corelli, the Italian tenor has always been and remains music's only matinee idol. The tenors have preserved a paradoxical mystique, combining refined and vertiginous high C's on stage with crude pidgin English and fiery Latin lust off. In most respects, Pavarotti lives out this mystique, regularly publicizing his voracious sexual and insatiable culinary appetites. But when it comes to comparisons with forebears where it really counts, Pavarotti's mystique loses potency. On the subject of singing, mere mention of Pavarotti's name in the same breath as that of the illustrious Caruso and Gigli marks...
...word that can be applied to Noland. He was a superb colorist whose art was occupied with matters other than the disinterested play of color on a flat surface. It had to do with the complexities of drawing from life, with adapting the lessons of Rubens, with theatricality, lust, tigers and Arabs, the problems of history painting and of allegory. Delacroix's success as a colorist cannot be separated from the wider ambitions of his painting. Neither can that of Matisse or the impressionists. Nor is there any real reason to suppose Noland could actually be to his generation...
...those screaming fans were bumming me out bad, making me feel like some gladiator on his last legs in the Coliseum. Then through the fog in my mind came the realization that the cheers were voiced not in blood lust or competitive drive, but in appreciation of personal achievement. Like "Rocky," I had gone the distance, and despite the cheers it was a very private accomplishment, a very private reward...
...Scientific Transcendence and Sexual Imminence, or the Relationship of Lust to the Spirit of Abstraction: The Sexual Behavior of Twelve Scientists at Los Alamos in 1942-45, the Zenith of Transcendence of Twentieth-Century Physics Interrupted by Periodic Re-Entry into the Organismic and Cultural Imminence of Santa Fe, Los Angeles, and New York; Sexual Intercourse as Prototype of Re-entry...