Word: sadistical
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...mind, a miserable failure. In this first portion of the triptych, the Soldier (David Dukes) makes a pact with the devil. He sells not only his soul, but also his body; or, at least, this is implied by the play's personalization of the Devil as homosexual sadist...
Clerance Felder as the Devil then dons angel's robe and halo and takes the "high road" to tempt the Soldier. No longer a sadist, the Devil has become an effeminate masochist...
Though Lawrence Sanders apparently intended his criminals to be gritty outcasts, they are actually laughable bores. "This man who fondled himself while I pranced about him clad in chicken feathers," recalls a lady sadist clad in self-righteousness, "this man attended church every Sunday, contributed to charities...
...gigolo to millionaire) with a single expression -that of a man with a pebble in his shoe. Masochists, lovers of camp and chroniclers of the collapse of Hollywood will sift for years The Adventurers' riches of embarrassment. There is the waste of Charles Aznavour as a kinky sadist and Anna Moffo doing her mini-Maria Callas. There is Ernest Borgnine, trapped in a Spanish accent several sizes too large. There is Candice Bergen, grimacing as she loses her virginity to the offscreen sound of firecrackers banging. There is windy dialogue ("Yesterday never happens again"). There is the rhythmic...
That's the secret, really. Don't write out "TIME." in inch-high scrawls-it only brings out the sadist in us. Don't (Cliffies) write offers to come over and read to us your illegible scrawls-we can (officially) read anything and we may be married...