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...detail the "splendor" of the male buttocks, claims that Myra "sees all life as a naming of parts, an equating of groins, a pleasing and/or painful forcing of orifices-the essence of pornography." He also charges that the book "attempts heuristic allegory but fails, giving gratification only to sadist-homosexuals and challenge only to taxonomists of perversion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feuds: Wasted Talent | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

That's the secret, really. Don't write out "TIME." in inch-high scrawl--it only brings out the sadist in us. don't (Cliffies) write offers to come over and read to us your illegible scrawl--we can (officially) read anything and we may be married...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Or, Get Facts, 'Any Facts' | 8/19/1969 | See Source »

Tough-minded as a Greek tragedian, Newby hits a poor anti-hero with every thunderbolt from Olympus. What keeps him from really being a literary sadist is the confidence he conveys to the reader that Townrow, like men generally, has what it takes for bare survival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bare Survival | 4/18/1969 | See Source »

...acters by Cafe Le Mama playwrights. Israel Horovitz's "Morning" tells the funny and somewhat harrowing tale of a black family who takes pills that turn them white. Terrence McNally's "Noon" is a comedy about a fag, a nymphomaniac, a male heterosexual virgin, and a whip-toting sadist couple from Westchester who find themselves thrown together in a New York loft. Leonard Melfi's "Night" is a moving poem about death. Very vile and not a little perplexing, the plays are acted to the hilt by a cast including Charlotte Rae and Sorell Booke. Theodore Mann directed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas in New York: The Plays to See | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

Equipped with some human motivation, a bit of believable dialogue and a more discriminating eye for the bogus, his film might have been a macabre little study of a pretty young nymphomaniac and her rich old sadist of a spouse. As it is, Birds in Peru has most of the defects of a very bad home movie; it is unintentionally funny where it is not flat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nympho in a Home Movie | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

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