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Some of the work looks satirical, even when it's meant to be a straightforward portrait, as William Bell Scott's of Algernon Charles Swinburne (1860), which makes the poet of sado-masochism ("O splendid and sterile Dolores,/Our Lady of Pain"—to quote a couplet chosen at random) look like the diminutive, shock-headed undergraduate he actually was at the time.
A Self-Conscious Pursuit of Beauty in Art Paul Levy 2011
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Extremely quirky in his music, Reed often makes use of sado-masochism in his songs, such as Venus in Furs and Berlin.
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More ideosyncratic is the writer Erwin Neutzsky-Wulff (b. 1949), whose books are curious mixtures of science fiction, satanism, sado-masochism, and existentialist philosophy.
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So Julian Barnes can expect a summons to any project involving Flaubert or parrots, and, if Radio 4 commissions a series on sado-masochism, Max Mosley's phone will throb.
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Babette Mangolte documented Richard Foreman's ongoing experiments in theatrical tedium, and, according to the wall text, Jimmy DeSana's photo book "Submission" explored "sado-masochism with hyperbole and wit."
A Master of Technique William Meyers 2010
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Babette Mangolte documented Richard Foreman's ongoing experiments in theatrical tedium, and, according to the wall text, Jimmy DeSana's photo book "Submission" explored "sado-masochism with hyperbole and wit."
A Master of Technique William Meyers 2010
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It opened no doors and only emphasised that Swedes are into sado-masochism and like to bash their women.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2010
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Babette Mangolte documented Richard Foreman's ongoing experiments in theatrical tedium, and, according to the wall text, Jimmy DeSana's photo book "Submission" explored "sado-masochism with hyperbole and wit."
A Master of Technique William Meyers 2010
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Unfortunately, he suffered from a streak of sado-masochism that runs in our family and succumbed to a prejudice held by many journalists, namely, that writers aren't real writers unless they produce books.
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Alongside a society unwilling to provide jobs for those who have served a prison sentence, uncooperative probation officers and dreadful living conditions, David had also become addicted to cannabis, may well have had an undiagnosed personality disorder, plus, crucially, had developed a keen interest in sado-masochism -- a dangerous lifestyle for someone who has killed.
Marina Cantacuzino: Failing to Draw a Line Under Vengeance 2010
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