Word: sadism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...test is heinous enough already," Sini says. "No one should be required to take a whole course in it. That would be sadism...
...tapes, which depict incidents among elite paratrooper units in 1991 and 1993, are chilling in and of themselves for the naked sadism they reveal. On them, dozens of Marines take turns punching, pounding and grinding the gold pins into the bloody chests of new initiates, who scream and writhe in pain...
...imitate himself. Scream, which has won some unaccountably indulgent reviews, is like his self-reverential Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994): an idiot-savant movie, knowing but not smart. For viewers who are not scholars of the slasher genre, the latest Craven will seem one more exercise in voyeuristic sadism, an excuse for the torturing of teens in tight sweaters. And that's exactly what this Scream dream...
...trite grotesqueness, though, Alice cannot be tossed off as another American Psycho, the famously godawful Bret Easton Ellis novel to which it has been likened. Ellis' treatment of sadism has a dopey campiness that Homes is incapable of. She takes her crazed protagonist very seriously, describing his every abhorrent desire in mind-boggling detail that amounts to a twisted, writerly artfulness all its own. And as in her last book, In a Country of Mothers, the story of a psychoanalyst's debilitating obsession with a young patient, Homes shows a knack for intertwining two characters' pathologies. In Alice...
...a.m.I search for solace andinteresting conversation on #bdsm (bondage,discipline, sadism, masochism), running intolines such as "Chives turns to pudding in hischair." I check out some MIT channels. only to bechased by a frustrated man from #netsex.He finds out my phone number from my "finger"information and threatens to call if I don't talkdirty with him. I send some choice obscenities hisway and tell him he's a psychopath. He leaves mealone...