Word: masochistic
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...fashioned mail-order catalogues, like the old Sears, Roebuck ones, with precise, naive drawings instead of the color pictures you find today." Thtfse catalogues define a dreamworld of real consumer goods; Carelman's show presents an actual world of fantasy goods. The 50 creations on display include a masochist's coffeepot with the spout over the handle, thus guaranteeing a scalding for anyone who uses it; an hourglass filled with pebbles, not sand, "for people who don't want to grow old"; a pipe with four different faucets for water at different temperatures; a hammer with...
LENNY. More masochist than martyr, pornocratic Lenny Bruce nonetheless mainlined some painful truths into the U.S. psyche. In the title role, Cliff Gorman gives a herculean performance...
...George, the class concluded that he was a masochist who often tried to conceal his aggressiveness behind a facade of passivity. Explained Vaillant: "George presents himself as a martyr, but he manages to torture everybody. His indifference is provocative, and that's one of the ways you diagnose someone as what we call 'passive-aggressive' and not indifferent...
...would need a miracle to bust out of Tennessee's only maximum-security prison, a stark structure of white stone in the rugged Cumberland Mountains, where inmates used to dig coal round the clock for 25? a ton. Things are far better now, but only a masochist would try to get away. Ray's isolated world consists of his cellblock's 21 other inmates, some of them blacks. Up at 5:30 a.m., he spends eight hours a day as a "block man" (janitor) sweeping and mopping the place, gets a brief recess in the prison...
Dedicated Masochists. TIME Correspondent William Mader, who has observed American diplomats in Washington and overseas, sums up: "In a sense, to be an American diplomat, one has to be a dedicated masochist. The department has more than its fair share of truly able, even brilliant people. But in far too many instances, recommendations of the best experts never reach the Secretary of State. What constantly amazes me is that so many genuinely talented people are still willing to struggle against these massive impediments...