Word: sadistics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
Eisenstein's Ivan (Nikolai Cherkassov) bears little resemblance to the historical figure. According to some historical ac counts, Ivan IV of Russia (1530-84) was a psychopathic sadist who slaughtered thousands of Russians, gleefully assisted at the torture of his enemies, and mur dered his own son in a blind rage. Eisen stein's Ivan is frankly intended to repre sent Stalin, who admired Ivan as the founder of the Russian state, and liked to think he was "terrible" only because he had to be. Eisenstein therefore dutifully whitewashes the brute. But the whitewash is spread so thin...