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...movies. In 1970 there was D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love, with its male-nude wrestling, symbolic bulls and drowned lovers. Then early this year came The Music Lovers, a biography of Tchaikovsky, which, as Russell describes it, is "the story of a homosexual who marries a nymphomaniac." This summer, there is The Devils, an account of religious hysteria in a 17th century French town; in it, a far from celibate priest is accused of bewitching an order of nuns, and is tortured and burned alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Director in a Caftan | 9/13/1971 | See Source »

What finally shakes Alren up is a stumblebum encounter with a sullen nymphomaniac (Tiffany Boiling). He takes a plane to Mexico, gets a quickie divorce, and, without explanation or motivation, promptly returns for his exwife, whom he seduces in the linen closet of the country club. "There are no answers," he announces with the pride of someone who has solved the riddie of the Sphinx. "You've just got to start by starting." So saying, he takes Lisa, clad only in a towel, and charges across the well-populated lawn of the country club like Ben Braddock dashing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Failed Graduate | 9/6/1971 | See Source »

...Carmen as part of a six-week stand in New York that will be followed by a road tour lasting until August. Cranko had sat through scores of Carmen operas, and he says "I always thought they were all wrong. If you see in Carmen nothing but a nymphomaniac who meets a tenor, seduces him, gets tired of him, then meets a bullfighter-it's a bore." Instead, he went back to the original Mérimée novel to help create Carmen as a shrewd, tough outcast-a gypsy in an age when gypsies were treated very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Goyas and Dolls | 5/10/1971 | See Source »

Chance to Explore. Earlier, Glenda's performance as Gudrun had garnered the best actress awards of both the New York Film Critics and the National Society of Film Critics, and she received high praise for the role of Peter Tchaikovsky's nymphomaniac wife in The Music Lovers. The two films were directed by Ken Russell, who is not noted for beguiling audiences with characterization. But Actress Jackson overcame both Russell and the difficult role of Gudrun with her range and depth of talent, conveying dark sensuality without the usual physical equipment. "The chance to explore such a mysterious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Talented Mrs. Hodges | 4/26/1971 | See Source »

...Jones masquerading as sophisticated literary figure, editor of "The Two Islands Review" (founded after "George's" Paris Review went soft), and Boswell to an American expatriate named Harry T. Gallagher. Gallagher is Jones as celebrity author and sexual psychopath-though his tentative adventures with a bi-sexual Negress nymphomaniac are so scantily drawn as to give the impression that Jones has mellowed with his marriages-yea, even become family-minded and moralistic. To read Gallagher-Hartley dialogue is to watch an author's dark urges confront his brighter ones, the latter, of course, winning out. After all, this...

Author: By Michael Sracow, | Title: Books The Merry Month of May | 3/16/1971 | See Source »

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