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...good doctor himself breaks out in cold sweats over Luci's miniskirts. Director Alastair Reid uses lots of nervous zoom shots and enormous close-ups that suggest the influence of Roman Polanski in every area except talent. Although Baby Love offers a little something for everybody-voyeurism, nymphomania, homosexuality, sadism-it does not really have enough of any one to appeal to anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Love for Sale | 4/4/1969 | See Source »

...melancholy novelist of guilt and frustration; in Manhattan. After striking it rich in 1944 with The Lost Weekend, the story of a classic binge, he had a long dry spell, writing mediocre books about homosexuality and paranoia. His last work was A Second-Hand Life, a novel of nymphomania published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 27, 1968 | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

...Nymphomania, voyeurism, sadism, torture, drug addiction and police corruption. It might seem hard to make an unendurably dull movie out of such ingredients, but The Strange Affair is more than ample proof that it can be done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Strange Affair | 8/23/1968 | See Source »

Pioneer of the pseudo-respectable porno picture was I, a Woman, a cheap, Swedish-made study of nymphomania. It seemed destined for the grind-house circuit until Distributor Radley Metzger, a sometime actor and film editor, had the bright idea of booking it into a New York art theater. Since 1966, the film, which Metzger bought for $75,000, has grossed more than $3,000,000, and the money is still rolling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Therese and Isabelle | 5/31/1968 | See Source »

...Girl with Hungry Eyes and Not Tonight, Henry. "Titles are very important in this business," he explains, "because frankly the pictures aren't that different." He even welcomes the censorship attempts of some newspapers when they change the ads for Days of Sin and Nights of Nymphomania to something like Days of Naughtiness and Nights of ?, because "it makes things seem even dirtier in the reader's imagination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trade: Nude Wave | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

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