Word: nymphomaniac
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movie traces Foster's coming of age as he emerges from the security of his parent's Kansas farm into the middle of a shootout on the streets of New York City and, eventually, into the seductive claws of his nymphomaniac aunt. She's not the only one warm for Fox's form, though. Beautiful blond heads begin to turn the moment Foster alights from his Manhattan-bound...
...premise of Ruthless People should be enough warning. Sam Stone, the short fat "Spandex miniskirt king" (Danny DeVito) plots with his nymphomaniac red-headed mistress to murder his wife. But when Stone gets home with the chloroform, he discovers his wife has been kidnapped. This makes him happy--all he has to do is ignore the abducter's ultimatum: $500,000 or a dead wife. Right...
Perhaps the best defense these man have is their sense of humor. O'Hara, for instance, followed the story of two children accidentally shot outside a bar with a riotous description of a 300-pound halter-topped nymphomaniac who frequents the spot. All of the officers seemed ready for a joke...
...sort of healthy open-minded girl that people used to call nymphomaniac," says Lauren Slaughter, the whimsical heroine of the first novella, "Dr. Slaughter". It doesn't exactly have the ring to it that "Call me Ishmael" does; but our these lines Theroux hangs his tale. Lauren has recently arrived in London from the States to work for a global think tank. After a few months at the institute, she receives a videotape from some unknown sender designed to recruit young women for an escort service. Bored at her research post and eager for some excitement, she decides to give...
...exasperated official guide. He falls victim to the local peach brandy (rot'vitti), causing a sensation in a nightclub with an impromptu striptease. He attracts more than the routine attention of the state security police (HOGPo) as well as of most of the women he encounters, from the nymphomaniac wife of a British diplomat to a "magical realist" Slakan novelist who seduces him in a shower, quoting Marx and Freud all the while. "Do you think it is possible to make a dialectical synthesis?" the novelist says. "If we do it well, it might not produce a false consciousness...