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Combat & Clothes. In another classification of frigid women the doctors lump the 'gold-digger,' who is financially exploiting many sexual partners and husbands ... the prostitute ... and the nymphomaniac, the latter in search for satisfaction which is never achieved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Cold Women | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

...Taste, a man newly released from prison, where he has done time for a sexual offense against a child, is encouraged by his sister to commit suicide. In Raspberry Jam, a little boy goes to tea with two old ladies, both of them drunks and one a nymphomaniac; they get him tipsy, and after telling him about an Italian lover she once bought, the nymphomaniac plucks and disembowels a live bullfinch under the child's eyes. So it goes on, to the last story, in which a male cocotte humiliates a middle-aged woman he dislikes by luring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Surprise Around the Corner | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

...three sinners are a coward, a lesbian, and a nymphomaniacal infanticide. It's a rich enough combination for any dramatist to work with, and Mr. Sartre, fortunately, does not exploit the sensational aspects of his characters. In fact, the three people are not in Hell for being a coward, a Lesbian, or a nymphomaniac...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 12/3/1949 | See Source »

...Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams' drama about a genteel nymphomaniac, won the Pulitzer Prize and the Drama Critic's Circle Award in Manhattan two seasons ago. Last week, still thriving on Broadway, Streetcar threatened to become a parliamentary issue in London and a scandale in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Tramway's Progress | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...Johnny's shrewdness and Peter's stubbornness they break the monopoly and set up Magnum Pictures in Hollywood. Johnny serves in World War1 I and loses a leg, an injury which results in his psychic hardening, followed by his abandonment of sweet young Doris Kessler for a nymphomaniac actress, Dulcie Warren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hollywood Pulp | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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