Word: nymphomania
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What About Nymphomania? Pro-fluoride people pointed once more to their statistics. When used properly, they said, sodium fluoride affects nothing but children's teeth. And it does them a world of good, e.g., in Newburgh, N.Y. it has cut cavities among children by 30%. The cost would be negligible (about 10? a month for each householder). No fewer than 194 communities are using fluorides already, and 70 or 80 more are preparing...
...were speaking to rising opposition. Seattle audiences had all too obviously been moved by the questionable science of pamphlets that named fluorides as the cause of "arterial and venous hardening . . . cavities in head bones; premature age . . . changes of disposition; irritability, apprehension, discontent, undue financial anxiety; loss of memory, satyriasis, nymphomania...
...belle who sinks progressively into a romantic dreamland of Southern lady hood. Stanley, her brother-in-law, heaves her off the tightrope of sanity after he hears of a previous stage of her illness, a sexual frenzy that, as it is described in hearsay, seems to have been not nymphomania but the frantic efforts of a schizoid to stay consciously alive. Vivien Leigh's performance is as much a tour de force as was Williams' creation of the role...
When Author Paul Bowles finishes with them in The Sheltering Sky, his first novel, Port has slipped through his zero into death by typhoid, and Kit's zero has become a noose plaited from strands of nymphomania and insanity. All this may be taken straight as simply a lurid, supersexy Sahara adventure story completely outfitted with camel trains, handsome Arabs, French officers and a harem. Nonetheless, The Sheltering Sky is a remarkable job of writing, with a craftsmanship that makes it the most interesting first novel to come from a U.S. writer this year...
...admission, Adriana was "a real beauty" with "firm straight legs, curving hips, a long back, narrow waist and broad shoulders. Mother said . . . there was not a figure like mine in all Rome." Adriana liked men, all kinds and any age, with an earthy nymphomania that inevitably took her into prostitution...