Word: spiderish
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Aili Paal as Conny, the youngest of the spiderish triumvirate intent on consuming Wake, is a sweet-faced leering, strutting, impish, delightful horror. Her mimicry of Jean's war story is hilarious. Her mother Elizabeth, played by Diana Allen, is an equally fine variation on the French sex-killer archetype. Together, they crawl all over Wake like a pair of black widows. Jaimie Rosenthal, as Mme. Rene, skillfully portrays a more mellow arachnid, whose venomous charm has degenerated into mere tittering...
Goaded by her uncle-in-law (implacably played by Zachary Scott), Temple tells all in a flashback confessional. It is a litany of lust and degradation. Eight years before, Temple had been kidnaped by a spiderish hoodlum named Popeye, kept six weeks in a Memphis brothel, and ''loved it." ("Nun" is a 19th century word for whore.) A year later Temple married the slack-spined Virginia gentleman, Gowan Stevens, who had been too drunk at the time of the kidnaping to protect her. It is only when Temple proposes to relive the bad old days with...
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