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...Pauline, Napoleon's second sister, generally considered the most likable of the Bonapartes, was a nymphomaniac who, according to Stacton's account, "treated men as she treated clothes: if she did not like them, she wore them only once; if she did, she wore them out." In Auguste de Forbin, a society painter "endowed with a usable gigantism," she found a man who wore her out. To the horror of her husband, Prince Camillo Borghese, she went through money even faster than men, but she always found cash when Big Brother needed it. Were she and Napoleon lovers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Corsican Mafia | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

...Fuller's best film to date. In it, a reporter feigns incest to gin admittance to a state mental institution so that he can track down the killer or a patient. Inside the asylum, Fuller subjects the reporter to a 90-minute horror show of shock treatments, nymphomaniac outbursts, sexual degeneracy, catatonia, schizoid fantasy, and psychotic gluttony. Shock Corridor is the Marat/Sade of film, a moody, almost choreographed, nightmare...

Author: By Samuel B. West jr., | Title: Sam Fuller's 'Shock Corridor' | 3/31/1966 | See Source »

...Spenser Blight is a 617-lb. night-clerk with galloping satyriasis. His wife Katy is a voluptuous nymphomaniac whose specialty is catering to men with sexual fetishes. Cool camp? Not really. Unrefrigerated tripe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Current & Various: Oct. 22, 1965 | 10/22/1965 | See Source »

...schoolteacher who runs a federally financed "Teen Post" set up this summer to keep Watts's kids off the streets. Her post is always jammed; she is affectionately called "Sue Baby." "When I first started working here," says Sue Baby, "white people must have figured I was a nymphomaniac with a special interest in Negro men-or even something farther out. It takes a while to be accepted here: these people have been fooled too many times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Los Angeles: The Far Country | 9/24/1965 | See Source »

After this situation has been squeezed for as many leers as possible, Rock tricks Leslie into thinking that she turns into a raving nymphomaniac after a few drinks. (Ha!) In revenge, she uses her psychological know-how to render Ladies' Man Hudson impotent. (Ha-ha!) In counterrevenge, he pretends that she has made him homosexual; he shacks up in a motel with a girl who is dressed up to look like a pretty young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rolling with Rock | 9/10/1965 | See Source »

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