Word: libidos
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...book City Editor. "Pick adjectives,'' he said, "as you would pick a diamond or a mistress." He defined the newsroom as "part seminary, part abattoir," divided all sportswriters into two schools: "Gee Whiz!" and "Aw Nuts!" Freud was "that Daniel Boone of the canebrakes of the libido," New York's fiery Mayor La Guardia a man who would "bite in the clinches," the reading public a "drowsy, dangerous dinosaur." For working journalists, he boiled the Ten Commandments to two: "Do not betray a confidence, and do not knife a comrade...
Unfortunately, Miller has chosen to tell his story in terms of Jonathan Miller's libido, and even this loses its feeling with four chapters to go. Dissolution and impotence characterize his relations with a series of middle-aged rejects, prostitutes, and pin-up horrors. Hope and a hint of life's finer promise, however, is embodied in an 18 year old Fidelista named Celia Chang...
...Chapman Report concerns a flying squad of professional libido snoopers who come to a well-heeled California Kinseyland to investigate the sex lives of a group of quivering matrons. Fortunately, there is only time in the picture's two-hour progress to study four of Dr. Chapman's pinned butterflies...
...picture starts out as a naughty, nutty boudoir farce. The lover it celebrates (Jean-Pierre Cassel) is a gay young gigolo whose rich mistress (Micheline Presle) keeps him comfortable but also keeps him busy. Even so, the lover has enough libido left for a chic chick (Jean Seberg), and for several reels the tandem romance rackets merrily along. Neither mistress knows he has the other; he on the other hand is blithely unaware that both attend the same hen parties...
...they're standing in line. Lurid advertising has activated Boston's libido again, but I predict that the crowds will shrink drastically as soon as people find out from their friends that Kazan has given us the Ladies Home Journal instead of Nugget...