Word: sadistics
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...with sinister vigor. A posse is illegally deputized by a lout who happens to be substituting for the official sheriff. The mob includes a blood-crazy pants-wearing woman; a smoldering ex-Confederate ramrod in uniform; his nervous, effeminate son; a bully who suspects the two strangers; a slobbering sadist caressing a rope; and two men who are desperately in opposition to the expedition-a colored handy man and a gentle elderly storekeeper...
...dapper Spanish painter Salvador ("soft watches") Dali has published his autobiography.* It is a wild jungle of fantasy, posturing, belly laughs, narcissist and sadist confessions. It is stuffed with Dali's paranoiac paintings, sketches and constructions (see cut), is one of the most irresistible books of the year. Dali, whatever else he is, is a character. He stands, among other things, against Buddha and Spinach, for Maturity and Snails...
...with a seemingly patient husband slowly, systematically torturing his young wife in order to drive her insane. He harps on the fact that her mother went mad; he hides things, then dupes her into thinking that she mislaid them during mental lapses. What looks like the work of a sadist is revealed, however-after a Scotland Yard man succeeds in catching the unhappy wife alone-as the desperate maneuvering of a murderer who has long eluded the police...
...concerns the adventures of a heartless, self-pitying sadist, who is out to rob his own brother of the sealskins aboard his boat, but whose plans are somewhat complicated by the appearance of a writer on his ship. In this latest movie version, the plot is further complicated by the presence of John Garfield and Ida Lupino, two fugitives from the law who provide the inevitable love interest...
...rain and mist where he can revel in his clement, suspense. Genially he takes you on a tour through croaking old windmills and murky side streets, pointing out the sights until your eyes bulge out of their sockets, and enjoying his own depravity intensely. For Mr. Hitchcock is a sadist, and "Foreign Correspondent" is a rhapsody in sadism, an apotheosis of the Horrid...