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Word: nympholept (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...business to portray a woman as bad as she is beautiful. On the rebound from a young bum (Glenn Ford) she marries an elegant bounder (George Macready), who falls desperately in love with her. She then spends a large part of the picture acting as much like a nympholept as the traffic will bear and, since all this transpires in Buenos Aires, the traffic is reasonably lively. Mr. Ford, meanwhile, develops a fierce protective attachment for his boss, Mr. Macready. He runs his dressy gambling hell for him, supersedes him in his fascist-minded control of a tungsten cartel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 1, 1946 | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

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