Word: passional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boudoir," "A Mistress Dissatisfied." Its big scene: a nude woman, lying on a couch of black velvet, seducing the hero: " 'You hold yourself in control like a bloodhound in leash,' she said with a provocative movement of her lips. . . . Flushed, panting, in a frenzy of passion, she clung to him, kissing him with avid lips, aroused to wild lubricity. 'Beat me if you like,' she cried, 'strike me, crush me. I crave violence...
...Republic seethe with vice, scandal, adultery, perversion that are all the more conspicuous because of the peaceful calm of the surrounding countryside. In Residential Quarter, Louis Aragon, continuing the panoramic novel he began last year in The Bells of Basel, gives the most lurid picture of provincial passion thus...
...Barcelona last week opened a political trial so engrossing that even a major air raid, even, the shattering concussion of bombs which exploded a few hundred yards from the courtroom did not distract the judges, prisoners or spectators. In an atmosphere electric with hate and Spanish passion, Andrés Nin was at last put on trial in absentia. Andrés Nin's small, blonde Russian wife or widow had a ringside spectator's seat...
...Sirs: Passion Play Season...
...years since the Promenade Concerts began he has done more conducting than any living man and has probably trained more orchestral players. Out of season he finds time to do wood carvings and carpentry and produce professional-looking landscape paintings. When the concert season is on he becomes a passion of punctuality, spends hours over his scores, rehearses and performs with demon-like energy. Each morning he solemnly practices his baton before a mirror...