Word: libido
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Sexy Guy. It appears that there may have been yet another woman in F.D.R.'s life and libido. Not just any woman, but Dorothy Scruff, coquettish, aging (73) heiress to the Kuhn, Loeb investment-banking fortune and longtime publisher, editor-in-chief and sole owner of the New York Post. In an authorized biography, Men, Money and Magic: The Story of Dorothy Schiff (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan; $9.95), to be published in October, Author Jeffrey Potter quotes Dolly Schiff as admitting to a "relationship" with Roosevelt from 1936 to 1943-when she was in her thirties...
...cluttered with dismal studies such as Freud and Bullitt's Thomas Woodrow Wilson. Twenty-Eight President of the United States. In that text the authors explain the U.S.'s decision to go to war against Germany in 1916 as a function of Wilson's urge to satisfy charges of libido while pleasing his Superego. Others, like the Georges' study of Woodrow Wilson and Colonel House, are much more subtle; they present the subject's boyhood background and then use psychological imprints as keys to understanding formerly inexplicable courses of action in later life...
...Oscar for a silent comedy and went on to produce Hell's Angels, an epic of World War I aerial combat. For the leading lady, he discovered Jean Harlow, whose wondrously sculpted shape, platinum hair, plus a certain charming vulgarity, gave her a unique place in the American libido...
...NORMAN CONQUESTS. Love is never saying no, according to Alan Ayckbourn's comic monster Norman, whose ravenous libido reduces not one but three evenings to a riotous shambles of reluctant yes-women...
...this particular summer weekend Norman arrives to feed his ravenous libido at the country house of his sister-in-law, gentle Annie. He also wreaks havoc on his relations. "I'm a three-a-day man," he declares, beating his puny chest. With virtuoso cunning, he almost makes the boast good. Annie, then his angry wife, and even stuck-up Sarah (another sister-in-law), fall into his arms...