Word: libido
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Inside her prim decor lurks a spry libido. She favors doctors and dentists, not because she needs pills or teeth, but because "they are so good-looking and so young." On her recent first trip to Manhattan, she surprised her transport pilot with her ready ear for smoking-car subtleties. So far she has said nothing in public except "H-m-m-m-m-m-m-m." This is delivered in the tone of a cordial spinster to the man under...
Later the Count fled to the U.S. under an assumed name. He was seen at the Frick Museum. "All the real or fanciful memories of his prolix love experiences strewn in disorder along the semiprecious beach of his life were now gathered together and arranged by his libido in the great hierarchical and opalescent vase of his sybaritic egoism." So he was glad to meet Veronica Stevens, who was now living in Palm Springs with Betka, the Polish girl...
...latest exhibition consists of three long short tales-hissing with suspense and detonating in surprise endings-on a guaranteed, all-weather theme: what happens (lust at first sight) when a middle-aging U.S. male with a lively libido and no intellect meets a female with curves and no inhibitions. All three stories have the rancid air of authenticity which Cain obtains by screwing down his competent microscope on a drop of that social seepage which discharges daily into U.S. tabloids and criminal courts. And as in any drop of ditch water, the action in Cain's tales...
...much protest is often an unconscious expression of too much love-and vice versa. If this ambivalence of emotion is true-as it seems to be-Westbrook is certainly madly in love with Mrs. Roosevelt. . . . But since Westbrook has turned his loving eye on women, watch out. The Pegler libido . . . turns hot & cold. . . . Personally, girls, I think we had better continue standing on our own two feet...
...pulchritude of Linda Darnell and dancing of George Murphy are present for decorative purposes, though both are outshone by Walter Brennan portraying an octogenarian with libido trouble. And for the role of Seabiscuit, a gambler's comic stooge, Milton Berle has developed an appropriate whinny, to which the Robin and Rainger tunes contrast favorably...