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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...

Author: By Adam H. Gorfain and Benjamin N. Smith, S | Title: A Ride on the Wild Side | 4/18/1985 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By William S. Benjamin, | Title: Half-Baked | 3/5/1985 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: High Currency | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

...Shah. He was characterized as weak and isolated, his advisers as venal and immoral. Claimed one 1976 CIA report: "In the Shah's family are an assortment of licentious and financially corrupt relatives, notably his twin sister Ashraf, a lady possessed of a greedy nature and nymphomaniac tendencies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blurred View from the Embassy | 2/15/1982 | See Source »

...enter this madhouse is Dr. Rance (Keith Rogal), as a government psychiatrist checking whether Dr. Prentice's clinic is up-to-scratch. In his efforts to cover up his failed seduction, Dr. Prentice allows Rance to believe that Miss Barclay, still naked and prostrate behind the curtain, is a nymphomaniac patient...

Author: By Laura K. Jereski, | Title: The Butler Does It--Well | 4/28/1981 | See Source »

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