Word: masochistic
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Lawrence of Arabia and Harold Wilson and one of us went to Jesus College, Oxford. Lawrence, in the end, turned out to be a masochist and changed his name from T.E. Lawrence to T.E. Shaw. Wilson's comeback as Prime Minister again. Maybe soon he'll be Harold Chekhov. We're going to be the Brothers Karamazov. This movie is particularly relevant today, showing as it does the problems of a state-owned railroad system facing constant interruption of service. Wilson might learn a lesson here...
...Erica Jong has written a medley of a book, something of a cross between a True Confessions of a Feminist--How Tough it Is and a Portnoy's Complaint. The book is probably meant to be the new monument to the movement. It's got everything: woman as Oedipus, masochist, narcissist, feminist; woman as hostage of her fears, her fantasies, her false definitions; woman as siren seductress and sexually screwed up; woman as dependent and woman as rebel...
...Miss Neal, then a star, was about to be signed for a revival of Desire Under the Elms, Carlotta vetoed the casting. Yet by her fanatical possessiveness Carlotta gave O'Neill both the protection he needed as a practicing artist and the pain he needed as a practicing masochist-which may be better than he gave in return...
...life hopelessly until I met my husband." He is a London antique dealer named Ronald Weldon, whom she happily describes as a male chauvinist. "I'm very devoted to him, and I couldn't actually live with any other kind," she explains. "I'm a masochist that...
...well as new categories of ignored consumers: acrobats, mourners, the one-legged ... The infinitesimal shift thus revealed to us is what separates poetry from reality, and the most invigorating humor from the crass stupidity of profit making." A child at the show was more succinct. "As a convinced masochist," he told the artist, "I take...