Word: lecher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kevin Roller is a fat, lowborn lecher who has piled up a smelly fortune publishing obscene comic books and now has bought into the respectable but slipping Primrose Press. Is there a Kevin Roller on Manhattan's publishers' row? He is, at worst, a composite: traits of his career can be spotted in several existing New York publishing firms. Similarly, Tony Thompson-the passionate editor with a winetaster's nose for genius and a mixed-up love life-recalls bits and pieces of several real-life editors' personal histories. The same goes for Gerald Primrose...
LOVE AMONG THE CANNIBALS, by Wright Morris (253 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $3.50), carries built-in advertising. At one point, the protagonist rhapsodizes: "Old lecher with a love on every wind, and you young ones too, running in pimpled packs after the teen-age bitch with her perfumed heat, and you, too, pretty matron, under the hair dryer, this is your book...
...while her lover gazes out of the window over the city of Leningrad. The result sent the whole Soviet art world into a tizzy and crowds swarming to the Moscow gallery to see his work. At the gallery Glazunov has already collected three volumes of scribbled comment (ranging from "Lecher!" to "Hurrah for Glazunov!"). Trend to date: two-to-one in favor of Glazunov...
...perfect as the crime. The film's intensity is slow to generate; interest is sustained, though perhaps not as much as it might, by concentration on the emotion of the distraught wife. Some scenes are grotesque, but they are never offensively so. Paul Meurisse, brutal and dynamic, plays the lecher of women and money. Vera Clouzot, palpitating in guilt and disease, is morally both noble and weak as his wife. Simone Signoret, a Shelley Winters of the Champs Elysees, is calm and ecstatically vengeful. The composite is queer, probing, and quite perfect...
Jove is an ageless lecher, a kind of zoological Don Juan who seduces girls in the guise of a bull, eagle, swan or snake. Juno is a screeching termagant who never gets even with her errant spouse, but always squares accounts with his latest girl...