Word: lustfully
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...friends, his are nudgy -- this movie hates middle- class Jews a lot. Then the lovers must break up and make up, and the ho boy! becomes ho hum. White Palace settles into stolid ordinariness, after flirting with being a handsome essay on the grandeur of reciprocal lust...
...climax of an annual courtship between the U.S. male and his faster, stronger, younger self. As his favorite players dance through the 162-game season, a fan takes in the teasing thrills, the endless conversation. Then postseason nears, and his passion is stirred like a farm boy's anxious lust on prom night. Larry Andersen, the veteran relief pitcher, could have been defining America's obsession with professional sport when he said, "You can only be young once, but you can be immature forever." And that goes for women as well as men, for dockworkers and day-care specialists...
...Dune in 1984). Each film had segments of bafflement and spectral beauty. But Hollywood, looking at the escalating price tags and plummeting ticket sales, wrote the director off. So Lynch made Blue Velvet (1986), a magnificent revenge drama -- his revenge on fettered movie conventions -- about small-town life and lust, drugs and death. Twin Peaks, you could say, is only the TV domestication of that warped masterpiece...
...contrast, The Showtime 30-Minute Movie, premiere of a series, takes a no- frills, no-big-names approach to three first films by new directors. In Conquering Space, a girl discovers first lust, learns to drive and watches her family fall apart at pre-moonshot Cape Canaveral. In 12:01 P.M., a twitchy corporate flunky has terminal deja vu, condemned to repeat endlessly one hour of a single day. In To the Moon, Alice, a homeless family takes nightly refuge on the comfy set of a TV sitcom...
Just how far will Saddam Hussein's lust for power carry him? By provoking the first major military conflict of the post-cold war era, he provided the maiden test of the proposition that the U.S. and the Soviet Union can create more peace working together than apart. As recently as a year ago, such an incursion in the Middle East would probably have caused a fearsome rift between the superpowers. But in the summer of 1990, the Iraqi blitz prompted Washington and Moscow to act in stunning unanimity, each abhorring the raid and demanding, in an unprecedented joint statement...