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Word: nymphomaniac (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SILENCE is celestial, the passion terrestrial in Ingmar Bergman's bold, beautifully acted drama of life among the damned. Pleading humanity's case are a lesbian, a nymphomaniac and an innocent child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 1, 1964 | 5/1/1964 | See Source »

...Newman) traipse out to the country retreat of an old pal, a writer, Edward (played by Costigan); they hope to lure him back to Hollywood to dash off a screenplay of Walden. But what they really like about Eddie is that he swings. It seems that Mavis is a nymphomaniac, Emil tres gay, and Edward can play both ways...

Author: By Ben W. Heineman jr., | Title: Baby Want A Kiss | 4/20/1964 | See Source »

...SILENCE. In a bold drama that reflects his own uncertainties about religious faith, Sweden's film genius Ingmar Bergman has an innocent child witness the death of the soul in two tortured sisters, one a lesbian, one a nymphomaniac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Apr. 10, 1964 | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

...SILENCE. Two sisters united in love-hate, one a lesbian, one a nymphomaniac, try to fill the emptiness of their souls with physical passion as they act out a tortured drama in which the only innocents are a child and an old man. Not Ingmar Bergman's best, but memorable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mar. 27, 1964 | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

...limbo of tract houses. His brother Moses, apparently better equipped than his dreamy brother to achieve success and enjoy its rewards, is defeated by the metamorphosis of his wife Melissa. Once the personification of love, she is transformed into a spirit of hostile chastity, and then into a voracious nymphomaniac, with Circe's vile power of turning men into beasts. Intended as a design in "improbability," Cheever's Scandal is saying that the bizarre, inexplicable and mythical event is closer to the truth of 1964 than any realistic report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Novelists: Ovid in Ossining | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

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