Word: sadism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...froze. This was the most terrifying sound a struggling writer could hear, the voice of sadism, of evil dreams, of a pain and suffering that rivals the heartbreak of psoriasis. The voice of an editor...
...sobriety and serenity, attending to his research with careful scientific discipline. He was also given to occasional flourishes of gallantry: after transferring a pregnant Jewish doctor to Cracow to do research for him, Mengele sent her flowers upon the birth of her son. Yet his sadism could cause even his colleagues to shudder. According to Miklos Nyiszli, a Jewish prisoner-doctor forced to act as his assistant, "in Mengele's presence, the SS themselves trembled...
...Mason took a Cambridge architecture degree but was soon displaying his haunted good looks and claret baritone on the London stage and screen. In scores of romantic melodramas, from The Seventh Veil (1945) to The Deadly Affair (1967), he polished his image as the ruthless lover. Behind his sophisticated sadism there was often the suggestion of a dark past and a doomed future, shrouding such troubled protagonists as the Irish fugitive in Odd Man Out (1946), Rommel in The Desert Fox (1951) and The Desert Rats (1953), and the drunken Norman Maine in A Star Is Born...
...hand, slobbering. Our worst fears are confirmed when we learn Nick has not cracked and an escalation of his agony is required. "Do you want me to bring out the LeRoy Neiman paintings?" an underling asks the general in charge, his voice hushed by the enormity of the sadism proposed...
...matter of balance, and if they keep trying they are going to get it right one of these decades. In 1935 Mutiny on the Bounty unquestionably belonged to Charles Laughton's Captain Bligh. The perverse joy that grand actor took in his character's sadism entirely dominated Clark Gable's conventionally heroic Fletcher Christian. In 1962, when Marlon Brando came on board for a star trip, his Mr. Christian took the helm, dramatically speaking, long before his character, leading the mutineers, had seized it. Though Brando was chastised by critics for his excesses, there was something brave...