Word: sadisme
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...civil war, as was once feared, but because of its own political . follies and foibles. Describing the everyday struggle of Italians to get driver's licenses, business permits, papers to prove car or home ownership, tax reimbursements and the like, he says, "We're on the terrain of bureaucratic sadism...
...recent "innovation" developed by Bell Lab's Department for Creative Sadism currently is attempting to doom the human race to extinction by exposing the public to fatal doses of irritation. The project--code named "Call Waiting"--promises to be to humanity what massive and ubiquitous mud pits were to the dinosaurs...
...rights, Cry Freedom ought to be Bantu Stephen Biko's story. The man was as close to being an authentic martyr as any revolution can claim: charismatic preacher of nonviolent resistance, champion of racial equality, steely victim of state sadism. He died in the arms of his torturers ten years ago. There is surely a film here, but Attenborough and Screenwriter John Briley can't find it. The men who made Gandhi turn their Steve Biko (Denzel Washington, from TV's St. Elsewhere) into a saintly apparition; he is first seen swathed in blinding sunlight and last seen shimmering...
...outcome of the trial had never been in doubt. The evidence against Barbie was overwhelming. From the testimony of French Jews and Resistance fighters, Barbie's chief victims, came a portrait of a particularly brutal fanatic with a taste for sadism. In his final, calm but chilling summing up, Prosecutor Pierre Truche said, "This is not the trial of a German but of a torturer. It is of a man still loyal to his Nazi ideals...
...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...