Word: yearning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bride for all of eternity, Ann Sachs is a delectably enticing houri in a negligee, or a slinky gown that might well pass for a negligee. Looking much like a vapid blonde flapper out of a 1920s perfume advertisement, she exudes a musk of sensuality that obviously makes Dracula yearn for more than blood. The rest of the cast is exemplary, and the sounds of baying offstage hounds are ear-tingling. But the show belongs first, last, and almost always to Gorey and Langella...
...perhaps the most impressive tribute to Elizabeth's quarter-century reign. The vast majority of her subjects clearly appreciate the manner in which she has fulfilled her unique constitutional role: embodying the nation's unity, providing historical continuity, standing above party strife and class divisions. "We yearn for symbols of national unity," wrote Tory Elder Statesman Lord Hailsham in the Sunday Telegraph. "The Americans have their Constitution and flag. In addition to our flag, we have our Queen." Nonetheless, as Hailsham told TIME London Bureau Chief Herman Nickel, he fears that the institution of the monarchy remains "vulnerable...
...critical approval. Indeed, he never indulged in the public pouts one expects of celebrated literary types. In Paris, apart from a couple of boorish flashes of temper, he lived an abundant life and made his strikingly craggy face familiar around the boulevards. He also continued to write and yearn for literary immortality. Even when he did gripe about reviewers, one could wonder whether he really cared what they were saying-or even quite understood. "They just said I was a bad writer, bad grammar, blah, blah, blah," he told one interviewer. It was as if the fine points of writing...
...such small sustaining acts as changing a light bulb in the apartment of a fellow a light bulb in the apartment of a fellow tenant too old to climb a ladder. But he does not bore the reader with his anger. In stead he spins a fascinating personal yearn about the lengthy battle waged by the tenants fo an old rent-controlled walk-up apartment house in the Gramercy Park section of New York City against the monied force of an expansion-bent hospital across the street...
...when you leave, kisses are shared once again. If you should happen to meet, then kisses are given profusely. In a word, wherever you turn, the world is full of kisses. If you too, Fausto, once tasted the softness and fragrance of these same kisses, I swear you would yearn to live abroad in England . . . all your life long...