Word: ghoulish
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THERE'S ALWAYS BEEN A GHOULish side to the idea of a Beatles reunion. A promoter throws the prospect of a little money--$225 million was the most recent offer--at Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr for going on the world's greatest oldies tour. It'll be fabulous, guys. Just the three of you, and your dead friend...
...unstable Cory, the world outside of the clinic is no more comforting. Ghoulish faces stencilled in silver all over the walls haunt her. Not even the smooth, bad-ass lingo of her friend 9eyes (David Jacobs) can help to calm her down from either a bad trip or serious withdrawl. One such tense moment between 9eyes and Cory is where Sarnat's writing, Gibson's spastic acting and Khamsi's decor work best to explore the depths of madness. Still, the scene is symptomatic of how unhelpful the male characters...
Transitions thrift store in Boston will help you look your best for the annual Adams House Fete or wherever your ghoulish glee leads...
...fiery stitching in the plastic window across from me" and realized it was ground fire. "The chopper groped for altitude as the motors wailed in protest. A small radar screen behind the pilot's seat began pulsing with a pale green glow, converting the navigator's face into a ghoulish mask. For three or four minutes the tracers continued reaching up for us, slowly burning out as they fell short ... I thought to myself, How absurd. To be shot down...
...terrified stare. Pools of blood fill the stumps of necks on headless torsos. The bodies of children caught in a bombing have been charred to cinders. The only discernible feature on a decayed corpse is the diagonal throat slash from right ear through to the spinal column-the ghoulish trademarks that every Algerian recognizes as the signature of the guerrillas who sprang from the outlawed Islamic Salvation Front (F.I.S.). "The fundamentalists are vermin," declares a government official. "We must wipe them out, even if we have to kill millions of people...