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Word: spiderishly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Feb. 9, 1959 | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

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