Word: nymphomaniac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yank college girls were at it all the time," and is bitten severely in his fat neck. He bloats with rage after a faculty party when he guessed the word was "effeminately" in a game of charades; the word was "Britishly." He is finally seduced by an ill-complected nymphomaniac and is comic in love as he conjugates Latin to prolong his pleasure. He is outdrunk, outmaneuvered, outraged and out-snuffed at every turn. The young "Yid scribbler" makes off with his mistress...
...filter into her drawing room to offer comic rebuke. One son marries the spitfiery image of his mother, and the couple travels to the brink of divorce. Too little love, rather than too much, has turned another son into a mother's boy, and he has married a nymphomaniac. A discarded husband and father of 29 years before turns up to meet his sons and resample a bit of the vocal and emotional hell that he and their mother can still give each other. Old rage rather than old age is their subject. Alan Webb, as an ancient butler...
...cases. He calls it group therapy. The doctor likes to sit in his office and tune in, by way of closed-circuit TV, on Polly Bergen, Janis Paige and other patients down in the group-therapy room. It is a pretty good show, too, what with Janis, as a nymphomaniac, showing a comic flair in her gag lines -some of which might have been pretty funny in some other movie. "They ought to stick you in the men's ward," a fellow patient says to Janis. "That's the best offer I've had in three months...
...remaining character, Sylvia Bernstein (Jane Wingert), I'm not convinced the play needs another nymphomaniac, but Miss Wingert is the only member of the cast whose disgust with Cambridge is at all compelling...
...segment of Boccaccio '70. But the role still had a touch of the old sentimentality in it, since Director Visconti had her cry while she was collecting money from her husband for granting him his marital consortium. Orson Welles has presumably buffed her up further as the nymphomaniac Leni in his still unreleased version of Franz Kafka's The Trial. Now she is undoubtedly ready to win her permanent place in a woman's world...