Word: sadisme
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...mothers of U.S. soldiers "weep blood instead of tears." The tall, bearded Uday, 39, has long been a braggart--not to mention a libertine and a brute. He squandered his inherited power to sate a boundless avarice, smuggling everything from booze to baby milk to oil. His avocational sadism and sexual deviance are the stuff of Iraqi legend. "In his eyes," recalls a former colleague of Uday's who agreed to speak to TIME, "you see someone who can appreciate you one minute and kill you the next. It is not natural...
...total isolation from everyone but their caretakers—and then let loose in the outdoors. The human subjects eventually pair off and swear undying love to their partners. But there is soon trouble in paradise. Though the play is allegedly a comedy, the story contains plenty of sadism and bitterness. See full story in Feb. 7 section. Through Saturday, Feb. 22 Tickets $34-$68. American Repertory Theater, Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle...
...raised in total isolation from everyone but their caretakers--and then let loose in the outdoors. The human subjects eventually pair off and swear undying love to their partners. But there is soon trouble in paradise. Though the play is allegedly a comedy, the story contains plenty of sadism and bitterness. See full story in last week’s issue. Through Feb. 22. Tickets $34-$68. American Repertory Theater, Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle...
Though the play is allegedly a comedy, the story contains plenty of sadism and bitterness. At La Dispute’s conclusion, the old man vows to have the faithless lovers “dealt with according to my orders.” He is incensed with the woman he had claimed to love at the beginning of the play, but it is she who gets the last word...
...ideal beauty of Leonardo's Mona Lisa or Cecilia Gallerani was the ugliness of his grotesqueries--an ugliness that disintegrates all possibility of desire and has something mockingly demonic, not just medical, about it. To see his grotesques as the mere play of a mind tinged with sadism is to misunderstand them. They are an essential part of the impulse that turned Leonardo toward an attachment to beauty as a kind of saving principle...