Word: lusting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lust quieted, Felix is promptly besieged by a battalion of guilts. The girl is the wife of his best friend (Tony Roberts), who was too busy with financial wheeling and dealing to pay proper attention to her. Remorse. Anguish. What would Bogie have done? The ectoplasmic Bogart steers Felix through an honorable leave-taking at foggy San Francisco airport-Casablanca come true...
...culture is plentiful and the gossip spicy. Yet Friedrich is never far away from the presentiment of the horror to come. What turns out to be most significant about the era is not its spectacular vulgarity and lust, or the brilliance of its art, but its sheer inattention to what was really happening-the long struggle between Communists, Socialists and Nazis. The popular stance in politics was a traditionally stolid German "Ohne mich"-"Include me out." Friedrich describes a night when, despite fighting in the streets, U.F.A., Germany's giant movie company, went ahead with its press preview...
Vanity! hog-vanity, ape-lust slimed half my blue...
Most of them, however, did not, Something in them resisted overt madness, subverted it. They would not so easily let a dream go. The dream was not of reach, it is true, but these disappointed and half-mad men never lost their lust for it. Instead, they dwelt on it, their imaginations fed by the strangeness around them; they colored the image of the dream with the violence and exageration and passion of the landscape, and somehow, the dream became Realer than Reality, Larger than Life. They took the dream, and played with it, investing it with all the glamour...
...largest and fastest growing segment of the business is the pickup truck, which retails for $2,800 to $4,300. Once bought mainly by farmers, it has benefited from America's growing lust for outdoor recreation. The open-bodied truck is now a recreational vehicle, often topped by a camper, that carries or tows snowmobiles, bikes, and dune buggies to the mountains, plains and deserts. A recent Ford survey shows that 57% of all light trucks are used partly for recreation. Indeed, Dodge is setting up a squad of traveling repair vans that will service disabled trucks that...