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...rapid series of short, vivid scenes. Readers who do keep reading have no time to pause and reflect on the preposterousness of what is happening. Seized by the throat, the poor geese are force-fed events events events as the action mounts to a terrific climax in which lust sprouts little pink wings and Beauty fetters Beast with a golden wedding band . Brad Darrach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rosemary's Babies | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

Greed is the theme of the play, greed so compelling as to raise it to an obsessive lust for money. In this reincarnation, the setting has become San Francisco in the 1890s. Volpone has become Foxwell J. Sly, played with shark's-tooth gusto by George C. Scott. Rich and childless. Sly feigns grave illness in order to arouse the hopes of avaricious, fawning and wealthy townsfolk who hope to become his heir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Delirium Risibilitatis | 12/27/1976 | See Source »

Enchantress, but the lust of Satan's flesh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fragment of 'Paradise Lost' Regained | 12/14/1976 | See Source »

There now appear to be two distinct groups of Harvard faculty members who lust in their hearts for a little piece of the bureaucratic action...

Author: By David B. Hilder, | Title: Harvard Waits for Falling Plums | 12/11/1976 | See Source »

Miller's friend Anais Nin took the measure of his self-expression through lust and literature more coolly and hit home instantly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Truthfully, at any rate | 12/8/1976 | See Source »

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