Word: libido
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Passion. The Jekyll of respectability duels with the Hyde of libido. Peter Nichols' unsettling domestic comedy survived a ragged Broadway production with many of its virtues (and Actress Roxanne Hart's Circean charms) intact...
Four years ago Roth unveiled The Ghost Writer--the first of a trilogy exploring the psyche and libido of Nathan Zuckerman. He followed it two years later with the second volume. Zuckerman Unbound. Now in The Anatomy Lesson--the new, final member of the series--Roth and Zuckerman seem to have resolved little...
...aggression, and not an aggressive expression of sexuality." Furthermore, Groth points out, even after castration, some men are capable of having intercourse. And if they cannot, the male hormone testosterone, produced naturally by the testes, is readily available in artificial form by pill or injection to restore both libido and potency...
...strides through Metropolis with a heavy, sexy gait, as if John Wayne had just discovered his libido. A three-day beard prickles the lantern jaw. His hair has lost that Wildroot sheen, and the brilliant red cape has turned a dirty maroon. Even the cape's bold insignia looks tarnished: the S coils like a sinister serpent. From every corner of the Big Apricot, citizens avert their eyes, hardly daring to whisper: Can this be ... Superman...
Clearly Dick's libido steered him towards both sexes, but Renee never quite indicates where it was taking him when. Trying to keep in the first person throughout the story, she cannot resist going back to a third person "he" or "Dick" in the description of the pre-operation adventures. The reader is left understandably confused about a man who at Yale had an affair with a Smith girl while simultaneously dressing up as a woman for Greenwich Village homosexual liaisons: who in his later years married and had a son, but soon after spent a year in Europe posing...