Word: lusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ever going to see a Loeb play, see this one. The costumes, the set and an unearthly masque in the second act are splendid surface externals in a play which shows all human convention to be hollow, all human interaction mere shadow-boxing in a game which, through lust, ends in hellfire...
What makes Iago evil? Envy, power-lust, money. For that they ripped off Joe Frazier, but it's an old story...
Mailer on Millett on Miller, as on Lawrence, is astonishing in the sureness of his under-standing, astonishingly good, that is, until the final twist of his logic. Mailer accuses Millett of missing the quintessential point in Miller, "that lust when it fails is a machine." Then, at his cockiest and most ecstatically ribald, Mailer treats us to his own passage on lust, on lust and love and Priapus the ram, a passage no less provocative, in its way, than the tirades of Falstaff or Rabelais or all the thighs in the canvases of Rubens...
...Alexandra Mezey, a sportswoman who has postponed her vacation in order to see the fight. Of the team, only Kennedy claimed to be the classic fight fan: "I'm a screamer and a yeller, a foot stomper, a seat pounder. I'll admit to a certain blood lust, a sense of impending disaster. I wait for the big punch that will...
...SCRIPT is not flawed with too many of these self-indulgent gimmicks, and for that reason, Orton deserves praise for his cleverness in handling gruesome material; especially his use of double-entendres to remind his audience that lust and filthy lucre stand behind every moral platitude. Excessive length and repetitiveness are the major drawbacks Loot has as a play, but a failure of momentum must, inevitably, hobble black comedy unless a compelling basis for suspense gives coherence to the dramatic situation. Case in point: Secret Ceremony, listless, enervated; Pale Fire, taut, compelling...