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Word: lusts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forgive and reform our problem children, but all too often this humane tenet of civilization is over-whelmed by the inhumane clamour for violent reprisal. Regretably, Meese and others have opted for the pessmistic, medieval alternative, and the immediate gratification of the lust for retribution will be the unjustifiable execution of 31 more death-row inmates who were convicted while they were still children in the eyes...

Author: By Sean L. Mckenna, | Title: Spare America's Children the Chair | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

...story. Just when we've arrived at the brink of despair, all losses are restored and all sorrows end. Eliot and Lee's affair ends; Mickey recoils from the thought of suicide and rebounds exuberantly; and the three sisters settle down to happy marriages. People learn to distinguish between lust, which is momentary, and love, which is something stronger and longer lasting. They understand that the self-centered life is a dead end. And they realize that in this world, since a whole life is impossible, they might as well settle for a half...

Author: By William S. Benjamin, | Title: More Than a Movie | 3/1/1986 | See Source »

Suspense comes with the underhanded, dastardly intrigues of Lord Guilford's father, the historically in famous Duke of Northumberland. The controlling force behind the during the latter portion of Edward VI's reign, it was Northumberland's lust for power that prompted him to arrange the marriage between his rather impish Beau-Brummel-of-a-son and the potential inheritress Jane, then fourth in line for the throne...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: Legendary Love Story | 2/7/1986 | See Source »

...Mama is left awake and alone. In the film's loveliest scene, Malik sleepwalks out of his bed, down the stairs, out of the house, down the street, into the home of the little girl he fell in love with that day, and straight into her bed. Young lust has rarely been expressed so sweetly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Memory Movie When Father Was Away on Business | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

...People are down and out, I suppose. Life isn't peachy keen and wonderful. Punk is for people who do and don't think. It's for kids who find total American life boring. I suppose it's motivated by the same things that motivate everything else--greed and lust and all that. I don't know. This is life in the Cynical Eighties. Maybe it hasn't changed...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: What's a Punk? | 10/10/1985 | See Source »

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