Word: dreadfulness
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...Haiti’s largely impoverished rural population, Dominique becomes the one reliable figure in politics because of his accessible Creole language transmissions through Radio Haiti. His periodic returns from the States, consistently marked with a hope that Haiti’s political situation had improved, became the dread of the ruling clique, who amply made sure—by torching Radio Haiti’s headquarters, destroying its broadcast towers, arresting and sometimes killing journalists—that Dominique’s message could not be spread...
...rest of the lecture, Jones expounded on why that construct has proven so persistent throughout human history. “One answer,” Jones said, “lies in the dread of ‘otherness’ … it may be that this alien is our own creation, the imagined antithesis of our own kin.” While that “mythological” construct, as Jones described it, gave the basis for racism, the motivation for racism, he argued, came from the fact that “someone always profits from...
...weeknight, and there were very few cars parked for the double feature of Dawn of the Dead and Club Dread. We arrived early and staked out a spot near the center. We listened to Simon and Garfunkel on my car stereo—I had no 50s music, but they’re close enough—while we ate packaged sushi from the supermarket for dinner. One of the most curious benefits of the drive-in experience is that the range of concessions one can legally smuggle in is virtually limitless. As the cars filtered in, I learned...
...weeknight, and there were very few cars parked for the double feature of Dawn of the Dead and Club Dread. We arrived early and staked out a spot near the center. We listened to Simon and Garfunkel on my car stereo—I had no 50s music, but they’re close enough—while we ate packaged sushi from the supermarket for dinner. One of the most curious benefits of the drive-in experience is that the range of concessions one can legally smuggle in is virtually limitless. As the cars filtered in, I learned...
...abstract images on a videotape, an aquarium tank full of dead fish, a water stain spreading on a ceiling. His heroine-victims, often preadolescent girls, are guilty only of the original sin of being human; they may finally neither destroy nor exorcise the demons haunting them. Nakata knows dread...