Word: sadisme
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Floodtide (Dial; $3) is Frank Yerby's mixture as before, a crude, shrewd combination of sex, violence, sadism, costuming and cliche. Yerby, a 33-year-old Negro writer who hit a $250,000 jackpot with his first novel, The Foxes of Harrow, knows just what his customers like and gives it to them in heroic doses: Hero Ross Pary isn't quality in his home town of Natchez, Miss., but he returns there in 1850 with an Oxford education, a face "as clean-cut as a medallion," eyes "somber and brooding" and "plaid trousers, clinging to his well...
Dawn-Chilled Face. In a climax reminiscent of the horror of D. H. Lawrence's The Prussian Officer, Gerald prepares to punish the boy for still another theft. His sadism unleashed, he pummels Duncan to death and then "gently [kisses] the pale, dawn-chilled face...
...make an honest woman of Miss Kerr. The only possible excuse for bringing this seven-year-old film to the U.S. is mercenary: the box-office pull of Deborah Kerr and of James Mason, who, at this tender stage of his career, seems never to have heard of sadism. The only possible reason for seeing it is the work of Robert Newton, an excellent actor who can put amazing variety and intensity of meaning into the oft-repeated dissyllable...
...hardboiled, feel-my-muscles style of James Cain and Dashiell Hammett, and, to add cultural tone, has dipped into the bowely bathos of the wasn't-Bix-wonderful, oh-blow-that-beautiful-horn school. The result is a gutter-minded, gutter-tongued shocker of alley-cat sex, sadism and unmourned murders-relieved only by odes to Satchmo's and Muggsy's horn blowing...
...Eighth Army has been operating a criminal court system almost twice as large as New York City's-and much more than twice as ugly, for most of its Class B and C defendantsts† are Japanese officers and men charged with torture, brutality, head-choppings and assorted sadism under the guise of war. Last week, more than 500 cases had been disposed of and there were some 250 still...