Word: nymphomaniacs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...POWER HOUSE - Alex Comfort -Viking ($3). One brooding young mill worker blows up a train and another strangles his overbearing, nymphomaniac mistress in this doggedly realistic novel of French lower-middle-class life before and during the Nazi occupation. Power ful, depressing...
...less boardinghouse than monkey house, less chicken on Sunday than ham and corn during the week. Staking everything on laughs, Playwrights Epstein leap the boarderline of probability, cram the house with all kinds of weirdies and whacks, from a whiskey-soared giantess who yodels to a nymphomaniac who tears after Indians...
...Connollies were a diamondlike quintessence of the pressures of centuries of slum life. They were Doris, a pig-eyed nymphomaniac; Micky, "a child of few words and those, for the most part, foul," who developed a taste for whittling off the heads of domestic animals; and little Marlene, who liked to finish off the dogs' supper plates and who promptly restored all she ate all over the floors. There they stood, "one leering, one lowering, and one drooling," a frightful triptych, the terror of the countryside. Basil found inspired use for them. Assuming power as billeting officer, he visited...