Word: painful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gilbert Lély. From prison and the lunatic asylum, the Marquis wrote to his mother-in-law, his wife and his valet, hoping that someone would understand. These letters make a human figure of the ogre whose actions and fantasies turned his name into an eponym for the pain that, to some, gives pleasure...
Padlak had a 3-1 lead over Cornell's Jeff Stevens in the last period of their semifinal match when Stevens got a sudden reversal and pinned the Crimson, asmore. Padlak, in pain from a broken suffered in one of his earlier bouts, was pinned again in the consolation hitch by Mitchell of Princeton...
...From Vincennes prison and the lunatic asylum at Charenton, the Marquis de Sade wrote to his mother-in-law, his wife and his valet hoping that someone would understand him. He remains an enigma whose habit of acting out monstrous fantasies made his name an eponym for the pain that, to some, gives pleasure...
Peritrate itself is a specific for angina pectoris. While the FDA admits that the drug relieves the savage pain of the heart disease, it denies that Peritrate effects any actual cure. Yet, in a recent advertising campaign, Warner-Lambert asks the question, "Is Peritrate life-sustaining?" and seems to answer it affirmatively by presenting charts based on a study by Dr. Alexander Oscharoff, head of the adult cardiac clinic at Queens Hospital Center. The charts indicate that heart patients treated with Peritrate stand a 22% better chance of being alive two years after a heart attack than those who were...
...also about sodomy, which carried the death penalty. His rank saved him from the gallows but not from himself. His trouble seems to have been that he was a stupendous sexual glutton and at the same time a sexual dyspeptic; too much was not enough. His pleasure was pain, and pain was his pleasure. Jail confined him to the not inconsiderable pleasures of his imagination, and over 20 years he wrote his blue masterpieces, The Bedroom Philosophers, The 120 Days of Sodom, Justine, and Juliette, in which he gave literary form if not, as he hoped, philosophic status...