Word: ghoulish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ghoulish Curio. The story has its basis in fact. Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were two veal-faced wrongos who rode out of Texas during the Depression, killing and plundering for fun and profit. The constabulary bushwacked them in May 1934 near Arcadia, La., firing a thousand rounds into the fugitives and their 1934 Ford De Luxe, which 18 years later was still touring auto showrooms as a ghoulish curio. On their own turf, Bonnie and Clyde passed from the front page into folklore; elsewhere, they were relegated to Sunday-supplement features, colorful figures of the gangland...
...ghoulish mix-up was unraveled by Guinn's uncle, William Adkins, who began to doubt his nephew's death when the family received a letter from him dated two days after he supposedly died. Adkins had the corpse exhumed; Army fingerprints showed that the dead soldier was not Guinn but a look-alike Kentuckian, Private First Class Quinn W. Tichenor, also 23 and also with the 4th Infantry. He had been killed just a quarter-mile from where Guinn was fighting...
...famous catch-in-the-throat turned into mere hoarseness, and even her magnificent sense of pitch and timing occasionally failed her. This album is a shockingly honest record of her opening night last July. For those Garland fans who dote on her tragedy, it's full of ghoulish interest. For those who doted on her artistry, it's too sad to play...
...popartists' work, called "Environment U.S.A.," was selected by Brandeis University's William Seitz and bankrolled by the Smithsonian; it is easily the biggest crowd pleaser of the lot, although only one American, Jasper Johns, won a minor ($2,220) award. The U.S. exhibit, with its garish colors, ghoulish assemblages and grotesque figures, comes across as an eerie, lunar, angst-filled anti-advertisement for the Great Society. It also shows what dozens of artists representing other nations at Sao Paulo have begun to imitate...
CULDESAC, an inventive exercise in macabre slapstick by Polish Director Roman Polanski, looks like Part 2 of a projected trilogy of terror that began with Repulsion. This time around, Polanski plays his ghoulish games on a desolate North Sea island whose sole inhabitants are a half-mad old fool (Donald Pleasence), his hot-blooded young wife (Francoise Dorleac) and two unexpected nighttime visitors...