Word: sade
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marquis de Sade rather liked sex in dungeons. Henry Miller protagonists were prone to phone booths. In Chile, patrons of the Hotel Valdivia can indulge their fantasies, without being either damp or cramped...
...concerned about the sadistic component of much current pornography. "No civilization, with the possible exception of the Aztec, could produce an art whose sexual ferocity would rival that of the West," according to Mexican Poet-Diplomat Octavio Paz. In Western pornography, "death spurs pleasures and rules over life. From Sade to the Story of O, eroticism is a funeral chant or a sinister pantomime." Reading about sadism can have a cumulative effect, according to Psychoanalyst Ernest van den Haag. Der Stunner, a Hitlerite journal that mixed anti-Semitism and sex, contributed to the general atmosphere that made it possible...
...vaulting funnel effect achieved through intense turquoise lighting of the higher recesses of the set above her bed. Shades of rose, violet and pale turquoise give way in the lighting of the last scenes to the wild-set and dark-set of hues. If Ford's themes foreshadow Sade, Poe and Nabokov, the combined effect of Colacecchia's set and Jonathan Miller's lighting evokes the same sense of demented, striving sensuality found in the eighteenth-century etchings of Piranesi...
Ouologuem manages his tableaux with a violent compression of energy, as if he were staging Marat/ Sade played by the Keystone Kops. Over the centuries, in the name of Allah, in the name of Christ, in the name of the god of self-interest, "that precious raw material, the niggertrash" of Nakem is conquered, exploited, then "freed" by new conquerors -Arab, French, even, alas, black...
...room. When Make Believe Time finally gets started, Ko-Ko takes off his rubber nose, lights a cigarette, matter-of-factly announces "We have a request from Ricky Allen of Maplewood, New Jersey for page 43 of Philosophy of the Bedroom by the Marquis de Sade," and starts reading...