Word: lecher
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Asked why he chose to return to the Soviet sector of Germany following the War, Bertolt Brecht retedly explained, "I feel like a etor with just enough penicllin to cure one person of syphilis. Shall se it on the evil old lecher. . or pregnant young prostitute?" hat trenchant disenchantment! was he simply humoring his stern friends...
...Japan's Kagi, in many ways the high event of the festival, concerned an aging lecher whose strategy is to restore his virility by making himself jealous. According to that prescription, he virtually thrusts his daughter's fiancé into the arms of his own young wife (Machiko Kyo, whose musky, lotus-eyed sensuality was muffled in Rashomon). The young man is hardly more attentive to her than the camera, which pans up slowly on her nude body from feet to calves to knees to thighs to a lap dissolve. Topping that, the film contains what is probably...
Frank Harris: The Life and Loves of a Scoundrel, by Vincent Brome. Less scatological but more truthful than Harris' own notorious account of his life, this biography offers a good portrait of the British editor, lecher and liar...
...even the energy to be angry. He lives in a seedy flat, eats in grubby restaurants, walks himself into exhaustion, and desperately kills time in movie houses. Compared to Brother Julian, though, Charlie's not 'arf bad. Julian, married and an advertising writer, is a compulsive, indiscriminate lecher without being really lustful. At the moment he is in real trouble, having got his landlord's teen-age daughter pregnant. His wife knows, and soon all his family knows...
...amazingly exact in indicating the composer's intentions. The orchestra squirms morbidly in the first half, almost as if playing without direction, but the second half achieves a kind of romantic, lyrical lassitude. The opera bristles with an immense variety of forms: a sonata represents the elderly lecher, a rondo suggests his son, ragtime gives way to an English waltz...