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One night, I tuned in and heard an extraordinarily cacophonous piece that sounded like souls groaning in hell alternating with dissonant organ music; as I could not believe what I was hearing, I continued to listen; I was tortured for about half an hour but persisted, as I wanted to hear the title in order to make certain that I would switch off if anyone ever threatened to play it again.
Despite the usual carps about his "tortured" prose (Dana Kennedy, Entertainment Weekly ) and cardboard cutout characters, most critics admit the novel is "a ripping read" ( Publishers Weekly ). (Read an excerpt of Rainbow Six .)
Anyone who had been stretched on this legal rack for so long would do anything to prevent the next guy from being similarly tortured.
NBC's David Bloom, recounting how McCain had been "brutally and repeatedly tortured," quoted a commander who said of McCain, "There was no tougher resister among POWs."
The LAT and WP give the most space to Ruff's tortured attempts to show that Clinton's sworn denials of sexual relations with Lewinsky were not perjury.