Word: masochistic
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Surely one of the funniest one-acters I have ever seen, Noon is about a wide variety of people (a nymphomaniac, a homosexual, an uptight heterosexual-intellectual, and a middle-aged sado-masochist couple from Westchester) who find themselves thrown together in a New York loft. They have all come to meet with a certain Dale (sex unknown) who seems to have answered each character's sleazy newspaper ad for sexual adventure...
...after the masochist has been properly dissatisfied ("You're raping me," she cries during his listless love-making), the film plummets. Playing host to a series of grotesques, Joe loses an ill-played game of hostility to some erstwhile girl friends. The battle of the exes ranges from shallow youth (Sally Kirkland) to callow middle age (Viveca Lindfors), and includes, in the interim: a toothsome baby sitter; a campaign worker for Eugene McCarthy (is nothing sacred?); a scholarly type who mumbles "I read your paper . . . It's very impressive" as she's being undressed; and a transvestite...
...when the King returns to England that the director and Madden have gone astray. I said above that the role admits of great latitude in performance. One thing, though, is sure: Richard suffers, but he always revels in his suffering. He is a masochist. He feels, he intentionally embroiders on his feelings, and he can at the same time even objectively observe himself from outside. He is always conscious of his audience--even when the audience is just himself. He undergoes emotions, but can control and channel them as he sees fit. Shakespeare has made Richard the purveyor of artificial...
What's more, the mountain is there for everyone. No one but a weight lifter or a masochist can pretend to enjoy wrestling with a heavy reel that spans 6 in. across and weighs 101 lbs.-assuming they can afford the cost (up to $800 for the biggest Fin-Nor model). Yet a six-year-old youngster or a 60-year-old grandmother can play all day with a little 2½/Oreel and a rod as supple as a willow wand. Last February Mrs. Evelyn M. Anderson, 60, a Glendale, Calif., housewife, boated a 353-lb. black marlin...
...case of Nancy Sinatra's These Boots Are Made for Walkin'. The original lyric is a mildly defensive warning to an errant lover that "one of these days, these boots are going to walk all over you." In Czechoslovakia, it has become the confession of a masochist: "These boots trample on everything beautiful/I live alone thanks to these boots/With these boots I stamp our love/They are taking their own revenge/I am stamping on my own happiness...