Word: libido
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have been sexually arid. Even the horny teen romps use the erotic impulse only as the setup for an anatomical punch line. Among the box-office hits of 1984, only the Clint Eastwood melodrama Tightrope had much to say about the dark night of the libido, and much of that was muffled under the bang-bang of a climactic chase. For that matter, De Palma and Russell are eccentric outsiders, and so are their new movies...
Being a steroid user may cost an athlete far more than his or her Olympic medal: a growing body of medical evidence indicates that athletes who take steroids have experienced problems ranging from sterility to loss of libido, and the drug has been implicated in the deaths of young athletes from liver cancer and a type of kidney tumor. Steroid use has also been linked to heart disease. "Athletes who take steroids are playing with dynamite," says Robert Goldman, 29, a former wrestler and weight lifter who is now a research fellow in sports medicine at Chicago Osteopathic Medical Center...
...piece. But his identification with his character is so complete that the novel seems to be spun from their shared fantasy fulfillment. Difficulties give way before Scum. Whatever he needs comes conveniently to hand, whether building materials, a rich art collector or a nubile girl to tempt his sagging libido...
...page turner that her novels are, it is the cheerful, if improbable, business of Romancing the Stone to transform her into a reasonable facsimile of one of her own adventuresses lost in the Colombian jungle. Michael Douglas plays the footloose fellow who helps her decipher the enigmas of her libido and the map that leads to the buried treasure. Their path is strewn with kidnapers, dope smugglers, sadistic policemen and a wide variety of unpleasant reptiles. But Director Zemeckis pushes them along at a pace that disarms disbelief, while realizing the full satirical values of Diane Thomas' brisk thrusts...
...playwright. At the moment he is represented in the West End by a romantic comedy called House of Cards, about an architect who suspects his wife of adultery. Stoppard opens The Real Thing with a scene from House of Cards, a brilliantly brittle Coward parody full of stiff-upper-libido dialogue like "I abhor cliché. It's one of the things that has kept me faithful." As it happens, the two leading players in House of Cards are Henry's wife Charlotte (Christine Baranski) and his friend Max (Kenneth Welsh). And Henry has just begun a secret...