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And, as a counterpoint to all the luscious, bare-breasted white girls used to tempt the hero into playing for the Man, there's a hooker (the model Milla Jovovich, the film's most unlikely bit of casting, made to look like a near albino) who's exploited and knocked around by a jittery black pimp (Thomas Jefferson Byrd) so sadistic that if this film had been made by a white director he'd have been cited (most likely by Lee) as a flagrant racist outrage.
It's not that the rich kids don't party as determinedly as the poor ones, it's that the dorms are prowled by sadistic faculty watchdogs such as Mr. Funderburk (Tim Crowe), as well as by students happy to rat out their peers if it means getting into an Ivy League school.
Buchanan claimed a measure of vindication when John Demjanjuk, who was accused of being "Ivan the Terrible," a sadistic killer at Treblinka, had his conviction overturned by the Israeli Supreme Court.
"Herzog is a miserable, hateful, malevolent, avaricious, money-hungry, nasty, sadistic, treacherous, blackmailing, cowardly, thoroughly dishonest creep.
Reviewers declare his play about a 40-year-old virgin and her mother "more immediate and vital than any new drama in seasons" (Ben Brantley, the New York Times ). Dissenters call McDonagh a "sadistic manipulative writer with an unappealing ruthlessness toward his characters" (Charles Spencer, the London Daily Telegraph ).