Word: lusts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overlooked two of the most titillating materials of my adolescence? I spent many an hour poring over the pictures of the naked women in Africa and the South Sea Islands in National Geographic, and many a Sunday morning at church service engrossed in the erotic poetry and stories of lust, adultery, homosexuality, murder and incest in the Old Testament...
Dallas, which premiered in April 1978, established the pattern: a big, powerful family whose obsession with sex and money makes them miserable and the TV audience insatiable; guilt-edged lust that skulks through the generations, seeking spectacular revenge; feuds and affairs that seep over the interwoven plots like warm Brie over a Triscuit. These mechanisms had propelled daytime drama-the radio and TV soaps-for nearly half a century before the Dallas pioneers, Lorimar Productions, streamlined them for prime time. Dallas proved that mobile America would sit still each week for a continuing story of byzantine complexity. Since the current...
...extortion." Some critics also assail the U.S. commitment to help Iran find and recover assets of the late Shah and his family, vague and probably unenforceable as that commitment may be. Asks the Wall Street Journal: "Do we really want finally to capitulate to the Ayatullah's lust for vengeance...
Caldwell stresses the lust for power and the power of lust. Her casting emphasizes the second even more than the first. Rarely have two actors so young and so full of animal magnetism played the two key roles Philip Anglim, best known for his work as John Merrick in The Elephant Man brings to his Macbeth the boundless energy of a fledgling Henry V. The shapely Maureen Anderman makes Lady Macbeth a hot-blooded sex symbol. One can visualize the pair being written up in the gossip columns as smart society's latest darlings and very much...
...only have been matched by the new president's. There stood James Earl Carter--a veritable personification of incompetence--garbed in v-neck sweater to save energy, hiring an adviser on drugs who pushed quaaludes, and journeying to Poland to declare, through the mouth of an interpreter, his true lust for the Polish people. Meanwhile, as the director of the Office of management and Budgets stole millions from Atlanta banks, the president's right hand man was spitting Manhattans on women he didn't know and making rude comments to ambassadors' wives...