Word: lusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much like those Lassie episodes we adored when we were kids, in which some heart-wrenching and highly unlikely disaster seemed ready to swallow everyone and was resolved in half an hour. Friendships are not ruined; no real psychic damage is caused. It's not that we lust after emotional violence or tragedy--it's just that the true potential of the current sexual struggle lies in revealing the dark side of our relationships and of our natures. There is nothing to gain by pretending that they don't exist, and authors who write T.V.-style escape stories that lull...
...children's books, four memoirs and scores of short stories. All of them are suffused with, in the Nobel committee's memorable phrase, "the author's apparently inexhaustible psychological fantasy ... of manias and superstitions, fanatical hopes and dreams, the figments of terror, the lure of lust or power...
...Essay "On Crime and Much Harder Punishment" [Sept. 18] that a full-scale return to the death penalty would be "ethically shaming and emotionally exhausting" for the American people. The U.S. would have to endure criticism not only from foreign nations, but also from within. Our blood lust could well supersede that of Rome during the persecution of Christians...
...well-scrubbed cheerleader's features remain fresh and even invigorating. Whether by accident or design, she has become one of America's last old-fashioned dream girls: pretty, yet down to earth; inviting, yet wholesome. When she flashes her Cinemascope smile, men do not feel lust so much as nostalgia. Like the blonde in the T-bird in American Graffiti, Farrah Fawcett-Majors is the girl that every boy chased after in high school but could never quite find...
...name?from Kamau wa Ngengi to Johnstone Kamau, then Johnstone Kenyatta and finally Jomo Kenyatta?as he grew from a herdboy to a mission-school pupil, from a Nairobi water-meter reader to a political activist. His career was shaped by the crucial facts of Kenya life: the lust for land by his Kikuyu tribesmen, and the character of the settler community that was determined to fight to preserve Kenya as a white man's country...