Word: sado
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...only to attempts by government to restrain expression. It says nothing about decisions made by private media companies, and it does nothing to prevent them from choosing which songs or programs they will or will not promote. Five years ago, Simon & Schuster canceled plans to publish American Psycho, the sado-chic novel by Bret Easton Ellis, after advance complaints about passages detailing the sexual torture and mutilation of women. (It was subsequently published by Knopf, a division of Random House.) "It's our responsibility,'' says Martin Davis, then chairman of Simon & Schuster's corporate parent Paramount. "You have to stand...
Being tenured and thus no longer required to teach more than a few hours a week, he had time to conjure up a truly diabolical scheme for wrecking the lives of the happy, healthy undergraduates he saw around him. After consulting the standard texts on sado-masochism and trying out whips, chains and spikes, he came up with something even better. Why not force these carefree, beer-swilling youngsters to spend a year reading and writing about some minor point of unimportant and uninteresting esoterica, say, the role of footnotes in conveying the buried Freudian and feminist perspective...
...addition to rendering the violence more tolerable, the masks emphasize the animalistic nature of the drives with which Sade was obsessed. Portraying sado-masochism as conducted by animals implicitly challenges the notion that this is an acceptable form of sexual expression; the masks draw a visible barrier between reason and desire. And as if that were not obvious enough, the film also includes a running dialogue between a man (er...dog) and his gargantuan, sentient penis. While the depictions spring from a liberal attitude towards sex, the ethics motivating them are conservative...
...characterizes The Smiths. While the first album concentrates on the brittle verbal mockery of songs like "Shoplifters of the World Unite" and "Some Girls are Bigger than Others," the second album evokes far more of The Smiths' more morose side, with "bruises bigger than dinner plates," "young bones" and sado-masochistic love...
...brief trial existence, non-ordered choice has eased the houses in the direction of diversification. And already, there have been gains. Adams House is a perfect example. It's still filled with uniquely Adams events (no other house could pull off Secret Sado-Santa.) But those events are no longer tainted with the we-belong-and-you-don't obnoxiousness that once made them exclusive and off-putting...