Whatever his current politics, it was too late: I had already fallen in love with his combination of whimsy and steadfastness, his ability to fix broken doors, his wanderlust and just plain lust.
Hollywood spun the dross of the time — prejudice and injustice with regard to race, gender, religion, and ethnicity; economic catastrophe; war, crime, political discord, and extremism; lust for power and just plain lust, the whole Shakespearean jumble — into a new, synthetic artistic gold.
Whatever they feel, be it real love, sheer lust, just plain narcissistic wallowing or last-ditch opportunism, is valid; there are no rules for what such titanically theatrical figures symbolize.
Portly and lonely, clumsy but game, she succumbs to wanderlust and gastro-lust and plain old lust, all of which govern her experiences throughout the novel, sending her off on assorted journeys and into various bad affairs and imbalanced friendships before she returns to her native Sydney, accepting a position at the travel guide company.
Poppea's lust for power, and plain old lust, win out.
Were the onlookers at the party feeling lust, embarrassment or just plain old shock?
"The Devil All the Time," Mr. Pollock's new book, a novel due out on Tuesday from Doubleday, is also partly set here, and a prologue explains, "Four hundred or so people lived in Knockemstiff in 1957, nearly all of them connected by blood through one godforsaken calamity or another, be it lust or necessity or just plain ignorance".
Betrayal, lust, greed and, often, just plain stupidity -- AND at the highest levels of government!
"Valhalla" juxtaposes the story of a beauty-loving misfit from Texas in the 1940's with that of Ludwig II, a monarch with a notorious appetite for opulence, as a means of examining the correspondences between the lust for aesthetic perfection and, well, plain old lust in gay men.
In his latest play Paul Rudnick ("Jeffrey") juxtaposes the story of a beauty-loving G.I. from Texas in the 1940's with that of Ludwig II, a monarch with a notorious appetite for opulence, as a means of examining the correspondences between the lust for aesthetic perfection and, well, plain old lust in gay men.
Equal parts Living Theatre, spoken-word art, and raw, natural theatrical talent, the plays ricocheted between realism and surrealism, plain-spoken metaphor and dense, concrete riffs about various kinds of love: gay love, a fascination with power, blood lust.
