Word: libido
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...therapy, options are limited, taking their cues from addiction protocols, which stress abstinence and provide strategies for avoiding temptation. Libido-lowering drugs may also help, as may antidepressants such as Prozac. Highly motivated patients can avoid trouble for years. The key, however, is the motivation; patients must work on their recovery for a lifetime, usually with the support of a family or community. "Running someone through a two- or three-year program, then leaving him on his own is doomed to failure," says Smith. With the lives of kids on the line, failure is something that few parents or lawmakers...
...movie script improves on the novelette in two basic ways: by what's added (the whipcrack pungency of Odets' dialogue) and what's missing. Sidney no longer has a souring affair with J.J.'s secretary. (The boy is all ego, not libido; he's too busy screwing his clients to waste time screwing a secretary.) Also gone are the interior monologues, and good riddance; Sidney has no soul to confide to us. But he has a handsome line of patter - a slick pitch (most likely a spitter) for shoddy merchandise. He stops you on the street, talks fast, and suddenly...
...socially conscious "concerned photography." But by the time he moved to New York in 1946, he was discovering a more personal style. If this was "concerned photography," it was concerned not with social conditions but psychic ones--boredom, isolation, acidity, glee, the feral thrusts of the libido and a weirdly sinister expectancy. His new work owed less to Evans and Dorothea Lange than it did to the tabloid-news photographer Weegee, the king of every New York...
Perhaps the strongest performance is given by Thomas P. Lowe ’05 as Willmore, the rover, who makes up in libido and charisma what he lacks in money and good sense. Lowe’s confidence and skill make Willmore extremely fun to watch...
...breathless, obvious and ungrammatical--that's democracy for you. It can also be eccentric in ways you don't find in print or broadcast. How else to describe the Amazon posting on which the writer stops discussing the new 'N Sync album to issue an important bulletin from the libido? ANYONE WHO READS THIS PLEASE HELP ME MEET JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE...