Word: nymphomania
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...sadistic lesbian who, amid threats of murder, leads her partners round and round the couple, slapping and screaming at the victims. Without warning, the tormentors abruptly skitter out the door, never to return. By now, the real estate man's cowardice and his girl's latent nymphomania have surfaced. Shattered by the ordeal and its revelations, they cannot bear to talk to each other and end their affair...
...title of the movie is a takeoff on I, A Woman, a sleazy bit of Swedish pornography about nymphomania that unaccountably was a hit on the U.S. art-house circuit last spring. Though both films are ostensibly about the heterosexual search for love, Man is really something else. There is more display of bosoms than in a South Seas documentary, but Torn steals the skin show every time, as the camera affectionately concentrates on him while it caricatures the girls...
...sleep with Mr. Sloane; Brother wants to sleep with Mr. Sloane; Mr. Sloane kicks Dada to death." Hardly the kind of situation which makes for happiness, in the natural order of things. But black comedy is Nature spelled backwards, and in this black comedy, happiness is indulging Sister's nymphomania, sating Brother's homosexuality, and removing Dada. Brother and sister blackmail, subdue, and use Mr. Sloane, a two-time killer. As Brother sums it up, "It's been a pleasant morning...
...this evidence of what they called Joyce's "possible nymphomania" was only later discovered by newly appointed lawyers for two of the Negro prisoners, the brothers James and John Giles. On appeal, they claimed that suppression of the unhappy facts of Joyce's life had denied the brothers due process of law. A lower court agreed and granted a new trial...
Henceforth, decreed Assistant Display Advertising Manager Marvin Reimer, 52, the Times will reject all copy or pictures dealing with "burlesque, bust measurements, couples in bed, excessive cleavage, horizontal embrace, nude figures or silhouettes, nymphomania, promotional use of the word 'sin,' vulgar anatomical displays." Lest that list missed anything, Reimer also embargoed "violations of normal moral standards...