Word: sadisme
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...small possibility of what is called in the city 'advancement.'... [and] if you keep putting some of them off, you may get away with having to do fewer of them in the end"), the habits of the turtle he has captured, and the strange fondness may have for sadism and masochism. As a paean to the endlessly intriguing things which cross Hoagland's path. "The Ridge-Slope Fox" works brilliantly...
DIED. Mario Praz, 85, protean scholar who ranged expertly through English literature, philology, art and antiquarianism; in Rome. Praz, who taught for 32 years at the University of Rome, wrote the highly acclaimed The Romantic Agony, a study of sadism in literature...
...they can be, but not very often. A peculiar case in point is After Rodin, one of the recent pastel drawings of a nude woman sprawled on her back, rosy, firm and decapitated. To what does this repugnant, though not very gory, piece of sadism owe its title? On the face of it, to Rodin's fondness for making fragmentary figures, headless torsos, isolated arms or legs. But then one is reminded that this, in Rodin's own day, was ceaselessly guyed by satirists as literal mutilation; so much so that during the Turkish atrocities in Armenia...
...true subject is not the relationship between Falk and his women or the things they will do to rise to the tawdry top of their tacky world. That material, effective as it often is, can only be seen as an excuse for what is in fact an exercise in sadism. Basically what "... All the Marbles "does is invite its audience to witness pretty women in scanty costumes (and, by the end of the inevitable-and ill-motivated-mud-wrestling sequence, virtually no costumes at all) racking one another up. Their positions of combat are sexual; so are the carefully emphasized...
...deceased tabbies as admirable substitutes for more conventional objects ranging from anchors to wine holders (not to mention cat's cradles and cat-o'-ninetails). Bond's graphic suggestions have triggered a barrage of ailurophiliac mail charging the cartoonist and publisher with everything from obscenity to sadism. Among furious readers' suggestions are sequels titled 101 Uses for a Dead Simon Bond and, to his publisher, 101 Ways to Go Broke...