Word: sade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carnival, a burlesque of chivalry complete with pratt falls; there is an affecting and terrible sequence, in somewhat doubtful taste, about a unicorn. The book as a whole might be described as a shake-up of British rectory humor, Evelyn Waugh, Laurel & Hardy, John Erskine, and the Marquis de Sade, quite well enough blended to please the palate of Sword-in-the-Stone partisans, to assure its author definite standing among such cult men as A. P. Herbert, P. G. Wodehouse, Lewis Carroll...
...When St. Clair attempts to renew his youth by captivating a simple-minded young barmaid (Madeleine Ozeray), Marny sees history repeating itself, intervenes. As the two ancient rivals match wits, the home passes through a financial crisis, a strike against short rations led by wrinkled, wry Cabris-sade (Michel Simon), who spent a lifetime in the theatre understudying healthy actors. Typical shot: St. Clair, ensconced with a novel in the bathtub while his fellow inmates are clamoring at the door, magnanimously promising to leave after he has finished another chapter...
...result was the part of Sade in Vic and Sade, a homespun daily sketch now three years old on NBC. Bernadine is also appearing with Eddie Guest in Welcome Valley over NBC. By way of variety, she once cross-fired with Ben Bernie...
...sseldorf the sagacious Berlin detectives had in full swing last week two amazing ruses to trap the members of a Crime Club* supposedly patterned on the notorious 18th Century Cercle des Amis du Crime described by the "Marquis" de Sade. In the first place, the detectives arranged for a Düsseldorf stock company to put on a Sadistic drama likely to appeal to members of the Crime Club. Behind concealed peepholes commanding a view of everyone who entered the theatre stood persons-mostly girls-who had recently been slashed in the vicinity of Düsseldorf but had escaped...
...upon animals or humans not in a spirit of simple violence but because he derives from them complex sexual satisfaction. As every Berlin detective knows, Sadism takes its name from a Frenchman born in the reign of dissolute Louis XV, famed Donatien Alphonse François Comte ("Marquis") de Sade, whose incredibly voluminous and wearisomely detailed writings glorify "the philosophy of cruelty for its own sake" much as Christian writers exalt Divine Love...