Word: ghoulish
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...often looked for inspiration to the world of comic books, usually superhero juvenilia like The Flash or The Incredible Hulk. But TALES FROM THE CRYPT is a different kettle of rotting fish. Based on the seedy old E.C. horror comics, each half-hour episode is a ghoulish black comedy that aims less for thrills or scares than for gleefully evoked squirms. The show, garnering high ratings in its third season on HBO, demonstrates another quality rare in TV: it is improving with age. Introduced by a cackling, skeletal "crypt keeper," the stories barrel along with logic-bending abandon; even when...
...ghoulish notion: people so poor that they sell some of their body parts to survive. But for scores of brokers who buy and sell human organs in Asia, Latin America and Europe, that theme from a late-night horror movie is merely a matter of supply and demand. There are thousands more patients in need of kidneys, corneas, skin grafts and other human tissue than donors; therefore, big money can be made on a thriving black market in human flesh...
...should face the consequences of their action squarely. If they cannot bear the thought of watching public executions, then they may realize that it does not make moral sense to permit executions in private either. Other death-penalty opponents maintain that whatever the potential gains, televised executions are too ghoulish to consider. Says Donald Gillmor, professor of media ethics at the University of Minnesota: "I don't like our return to an era of public hanging...
Ever since its publication in 1949, Paul Bowles' The Sheltering Sky has been praised for its portrayal of a modern married couple afflicted with ennui, malaise, anomie -- the chic social diseases that Americans of the postwar era picked up from French intellectuals. But the novel has another ghoulish attraction: it maps out the all-time nightmare itinerary for the innocent abroad...
...Janis Joplin, "although I couldn't speak a word of English." She got started in East Berlin's jazz circuit and has since emerged as an international rock star. Meantime, she has made more changes than Madonna, festooning herself with chains and wearing metal bras, wild wigs and ghoulish makeup. On her latest album, Hagen pounds out a number titled Gorbachev Rap. After all, she explains, it's important to encourage Mikhail...