Word: sadisme
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Brubaker, like Murton, discovers that the horrors of prison life are not waste products of idle sadism; they are manifestations of a wider corruption. The penalty for exposing these evils is death - a sentence carried out by the venal trusties and implicitly condoned by their civilian counterparts, the local politicians and businessmen. It is the discovery of the victims' graves that brings Brubaker to its ambiguous climax...
...sooner or later someone's going to find out. Hitchcock's films were ridden with symbols--staircases, mothers, skinny blondes, birds, windows; it was a code that viewers happily followed from film to film. And he influenced every great director who followed him; even those repulsed by his sadism were reduced by his techniques...
...aggressive than heterosexual sex simply because two men are involved. Sex researchers generally endorse Freud's finding that "the sexuality of most men shows an admixture of aggression, of a desire to subdue." Indeed the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders characterizes sadism and masochism as almost exclusively male perversions...
...lineage to the tankered waters of the Persian Gulf. If OPEC intends further price hikes--as it apparently does--then to make headway against inflation Volcker will have to squeeze America's economic arteries tight enough to cause gangrene. Paul Samuelson, Ec 10's law-giver, calls this "sadism...
Fuller, whose first film in five years is due in December (a war movie called The Big Red One) has a keyed-up, pulp-writer's sense of poetry, an incredibly imaginative and powerful manipulation of cutting rhythms and camera movement--and a wide streak of sadism. His films have been highly influential to Godard, among others, whose praise and tribute has lifted Fuller to a sort of cult status. Shock Corridor--starring no one you've ever heard of before--concerns a journalist who, in hopes of earning a Pulitzer prize, disguises himself as a patient in an insane...