Word: lusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite her given name, De Monaghan's gender is unmistakable. She is the most erotic film teen-ager since Lee Remick's drum majorette in A Face In the Crowd. But Jerome is a creature of such intellectuality that lust comes to him in whispers. It is not Claire's torso that he craves. Only her knee. In time he manages to palpate the beloved object...
...from the confined space an almost tangible sense of claustrophobic terror. His work with the actors is equally felicitous. Eastwood, working with Siegel for the third time, exudes a cool, threatening sexuality. Elizabeth Hartman is affecting as a young spinster and Geraldine Page provides a haunting portrait of thwarted lust. The young girls are the most remarkable children seen on-screen since Our Mother's House, especially a sultry temptress named Jo Ann Harris and the remarkable Pamelyn Ferdin, who credibly transforms from idolater to avenger...
...peels the surface off his famous subjects (Michelangelo, Van Goah, Mary Todd Lincoln) and stuffs them with gobs of unsorted data, pulpy dialogue and icky emotionalism. Not all fact yet hardly worth calling fiction, Stone's books have the intellectual value of slightly organized debris, but they sell. Lust for Life (1934) moved some 2 million copies in cloth and paperback. Approaching 3 million, The Agony and the Ecstasy (1961) is still going strong. The Passions of the Mind, released early to most booksellers, had sold 125,000 before its official publicaton date...
...huge ambition thrusting out of old shtetl terrors and the hidden struggle with a Jewish mother who called him "mein goldener Sigi" till the day she died? As Stone presents him, the young Freud is just another nice, bright Jewish boy, "my son the doctor," and his long and lust-tormented engagement to Martha Bernays is a Victorian idyl of sweet reason and unspattered upholstery...
Truman, by contrast, slugged viciously ("The Republican Party is controlled by silent and cunning men who have a dangerous lust for power and privilege") through 31,500 miles and 350 speeches, stubbornly predicting his own victory. Gamblers made Dewey an 18-to-1 favorite; some pollsters were so certain of the outcome that they stopped sampling as early as September. But Truman attracted large and noisy crowds ("Give 'em hell, Harry"). He won, mainly because of a revolt among Midwest farmers, who were angry at the Republican Congress and turned off by Dewey's cool gentility...