Word: sade
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...AINT ANY CRAZIER than the average asshole on the street," decides Randle P. McMurphy, the hero of Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest after only a short time inside a state mental hospital. From Shakespeare to Marnt-Sade to Durrenmatt, writers have attempted to probe the implications of insanity and to articulate the paradoxes that best madness. McMurphy soon learns that, as one of the doctors puts it, "the asylum is 'society in miniature.'" From his first boisterous appearance, crashing in as a recent "committal" from the state prison farm, to when he lies stretched...
Satyricon--A vile Fellini phantasmagoria based on Petronius but lacking the wit and lightness of the epicurean's touch. With Marat Sade, Peter Brook's sensational and sensationalistic production of the finally incoherent Peter Weiss play. CINEMA 733 (Thurs. and Fri.) Call 266-0342 for times...
There once was an age of reason, Harrington believes, in which Western civilization subscribed to the bourgeois standards - work hard, seek virtue - and it naturally condemned the psychopath as a madman (the Marquis de Sade) or an outlaw (Billy the Kid). But throughout most of this century, he argues, the psychopaths have been gaining - first tolerated, now triumphant as dictators of the contemporary style of life...
...host, the saying of inverted prayers, the use of crosses upside down and a nude woman on the altar. Some of the worst profanations were probably the exaggerations of church inquisitors, fantasied in their horror of Satanism. If so, such later devotees of the wicked as the Marquis de Sade and England's 18th century Hell-Fire clubs simply took their cues from the inquisitors...
Miss Cooper was not speaking idly about young male prostitutes. In Long Island's Nassau County last week, District Attorney William Cahn announced that his office had broken up a homosexual ring that would fulfill the fantasies of a Marquis de Sade. Four men and a woman-all respected members of their communities, all but one married-were indicted by a grand jury on charges ranging from sodomy to endangering the welfare of a child. According to Cahn, the group had been operating for ten years with at least 45 members-adults and boys aged seven to 17 seduced...