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...love letters, these make curious ones; something was always going wrong with the male. Doubtless, temperamental Actress Campbell could be impossible, but tough Playwright Shaw could at times seem inhuman. These were love letters without a love affair; as Stella Campbell said, she and G.B.S. were two "lustless lions at play." And for every coo there was a not-always-brilliant snarl. When she first read Pygmalion, she sniffed: "You made Liza a cockney just to torment me," and he snapped back: "I'm surprised you find it so difficult to be common." But Mrs. Pat must have minded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Offering on Broadway | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

...some who are not so naive. The theory claims that a man can be-alternately or concomitantly-homo-and hetero-sexual. The statement is as rational as one declaring that a man can at the same time have cancer and perfect health. Some homosexuals are occasionally capable of lustless mechanical sex with a woman . . . They tend to marry as a means of proving . . . that they are completely normal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Curable Disease? | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

Tired, Lackadaisical, Lustless? Officers, noting the popularity of these plugs, put them to work kidding soldiers' deficiencies-such as sleep: "Do you wake up in the morning with bags under your eyes, tired, lustless; do you do K.P. with no fervor or dig a lackadaisical latrine? Then try our product spelled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: G.I. Network | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

...this particular painting, "Two Seated Women," Picasso expresses the weightless, mystical connection between the two figures. Because of the undynamic quality of the large but precise limbs, there is an unearthy, lustless feeling of the abstract in the painting. The position of the bodies, the obvious difference in type between the women, and the highly successful use of color, lead one to believe that far from being vacuous, the painting is an excellent expression of what can be called "otherworldliness." We are faced with an unreal, but somehow true work...

Author: By John Wliner, | Title: Collection & Critiques | 5/22/1940 | See Source »

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