Word: ghoulish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born. To Patricia Neal, 38, Academy Award-winning cinemactress for her portrait of the housekeeper in Hud, and Roald Dahl, 47, British author of deftly ghoulish short stories: their third child, second daughter; in Oxford, England. Name: Ophelia...
Thailand's grief over Sarit's death was in stark contrast to the ghoulish glee it provoked in neighboring Cambodia.Neutralist Prince Norodom Sihanouk long hated Sarit, whom he labeled a Western toady, two years ago broke off diplomatic relations with Thailand in a flurry of epithets. On receiving news of the death, special concerts were scheduled to celebrate the occasion. Prince Sihanouk allowed civil servants to report for work two hours later for a fortnight so that they could "dance and amuse themselves...
Besides thinking about food inordinately, Cliffies discuss it endlessly. Many girls, especially those who are occasional compulsive eaters, can recite the calorie count of hundreds of foods. Perhaps a third of each meal-time conversation centers around the items being served. And the compulsive eaters take ghoulish pleasure in watching or hearing about the culinary indiscretions of their girlfriends...
...Memory Picture. Author Mitford's basic argument is that the cult of the prettied-up corpse, put on display in a ghoulish, make-believe sleep, is neither reverent nor religious, but a giant feat of merchandising. She has deadly fun with such astonishing specialists as the Practical Burial Footwear Company of Columbus, Ohio, which offer Fit-a-Fut oxfords (in patent, calf, tan or oxblood) and Ko-Zee, with its "soft, cushioned soles and warm, luxurious slipper comfort, but true shoe smartness." Courtesy Products has a "new Bra-form, Post Mortem Form Restoration . . . they accomplish so much...
...mighty were buried. The bodies are there today, preserved by some forgotten process, still wearing velvet britches and silver buckles. "Some times they look almost alive," says Biddle. "Sometimes the decomposition is almost surrealist with Rembrandtesque light, and sometimes they look like giant insects with their mouths gaping open." Ghoulish as they are, they become in Biddle's hands enormously affecting-creatures caught in a no man's land, having been rejected by life and not yet accepted by death...