Word: sadist
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...last week's first installment, Peter Lind Hayes, as the TV comic who cracked up over the air because his family insists on living in the strange, frightening suburbs, and Mary Healy as his wife, whose gay indifference to his suffering singled her out as a latent sadist, were charming and civilized performers. But the show is brainless...
Westerner (NBC) doffs its Stetson to Freud as Brian Keith, borrowing John Wayne's hunch and squint, brawls his way through some crisply directed traumas. Last week Keith rescued a girl from a sadist, only to have her refuse to go along with the rescuer because she liked being slapped around after...
...earth, and heroes." and more than a score of blood-drenched novels (The Triumph of Death] and plays (The Dead City, The Ship}. His heroes were voluptuous and cruel. "Whv must there be a germ of sadist perversion in everyone who loves and desires?" the D'Annunzian hero asked himself as he pulled his beloved, and his beloved self, off a cliff, or in fake Renaissance fashion raped his sister...
Wilson's Ripper is Austin Nunne, a Baudelairean esthete and homosexual sadist. Into his orbit drifts a would-be writer named Gerard Sorme, drawn to Nunne partly out of satanic excitement and partly because he seems to share the same ideas about what makes life not worth living. (Sorme is working on a book on "the modern sense of dispossession" that sounds remarkably like Wilson's Outsider.) With the help of "a Mozart symphony, a hot frankfurter sausage, the smell of acetone," Gerard sometimes gets "a new grip on being alive...
...Right-Jack mentality of what the London Daily Express called "the never-had-it-so-good citizenry, stuffed with comfort" and forever asking "What's in it for me?" Said desperate Superintendent Haughton: "The man who committed this dreadful crime is obviously a pathological sadist who could strike again...