Word: lusts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SILENCE. Lightning bolts of Ingmar Bergman's genius illuminate a dark, chilling allegory in which two women and a child travel to a city abounding in lust, loneliness and death...
Lebensraum with View. While speculators and anyone fortunate enough to own land are delighted by the sudden riches they find underfoot, the high prices have already slowed construction of badly needed middle- and low-income housing in West Germany, threaten to do the same elsewhere. The land lust has also produced a longdistance effect: a Florida land boom in West Germany. Germans seeking "Lebensraum with a View" are biting hard at tempting lures dangled by U.S. real estate men offering Florida land, sight unseen, for as little as 5½? per square foot...
...line. His clothes are from Saville Row, his scotch Chivas Regal, his monogram everpresent. But the manorial estate has given way to a small, though stylish, townhouse in Chelsea; imperial conquests in India to idleness and empty dreams of developments in Brazil; and martial valor to frustrating skirmishes of lust. On every wall hang pictures of distinguished forebears; father against the Germans, grandfather in the Great War, great to the nth degree grandfather at Waterloo. Whereas his ancestors went to heaven fighting for England's glory, Tony heads for hell carrying his cannon in his silk drawers...
Ansen's script is clever and pointed; his direction is imaginative even if his pace occasionally drags. Valerie Clark, whose pretty head is on the pillow most of the time, is a wonderful ham, and Roberta Braucher handles a delicate assignment well. Bina Breitner's lust didn't quite convince me, but Lance Lindabury's loving Daddy brought laughs even without lines. Larry Gonick is a patient and virile lover...
...opposites. Ransom heroines die of "six spells of fever and six of burning." They have only to appear, magnolia fresh, on the piazza, and the rustle of death stirs in the wistaria trees. His lovers can find no rest, so tormented are they by such archaic inner struggles as lust v. honor, or passion v. philosophy. For his part, Ransom allows neither them nor the world any ease this side of the grave...