Word: lusts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Carder-Bresson contemplated the windowed gorges of Manhattan, while his wife-Javanese Dancer Ratna Mohini -rehearsed for a recital. He took his camera everywhere about the city, peering, with an explorer's lust for the unknown, into thousands of hurrying faces. "Human faces," Carder-Bresson mused, "are such a world...
Biographer Irving Stone, who wrote Lust for Life (Van Gogh) and Immortal Wife (Jessie Benton Fremont), turned to a new field of history in his "historical" screenplay on the life of Dolly Madison...
Borkman (Victor Jory) had had a vast, almost visionary, lust for power; and to get it, he gave up love. Yet he failed, for all that-he overreached himself, went to prison, embittered his success-worshiping wife, emerged a pariah who for eight years shut himself up, futilely nursing his grandiose dream. When his wife's sister-the woman he loved and should have married-comes, herself dying, to reproach yet try to reshape him, she is too late. Leaving his house with her, Borkman dies of "the cold...
Zweig has two explanations for the vast productivity of the squat, ugly writer who became the acknowledged master of the 19th Century realistic novel. One was Balzac's feverish lust for power. "If the opportunity had offered, Balzac might equally well have become a businessman or a slave-dealer, a speculator in real estate or a banker. It was mere chance that directed his genius into the channel of literature...
Four of the best performers in Hollywood move smartly through an interesting if slightly muddled psychological story in "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers," a movie which should satisfy the lust for evil in all but the morbidly insatiate. The characters are all either just out of jail or on the verge of getting in with the exception of a district attorney, and he commits murder and suicide at the end to make the criminality virtually unanimous...