Word: ghoulish
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Others were concerned less with the integrity of the donor than with the dignity of the recipient. At first, before Baby Fae's televised smile had beguiled skeptics, the word ghoulish was heard: some sacred barrier between species had been broken, some principle of separateness between man and animal violated. Indeed, it is a blow to man's idea of himself to think that a piece of plastic or animal tissue may occupy the seat of the emotions and perform perfectly well (albeit as a pump). It is biological Galileism, and just as humbling. Nevertheless it is fact...
...ideological fervor is only inspired by latent lust and violence. As Sade himself quips, "People join revolutions when the adrenaline builds up." The radical soapbox priest, Jacques Roux, is played by a vociferous, apoplectic inmate (Kristen Gasser) who is restrained by a gag. Aroused by Corday's ghoulish description of a beheading she witnessed in Paris, the patients play at guillotining each other, tossing about a large red ball--a dismembered head--and tittering like demons...
...sign of rejection," said Hospital Spokeswoman Patti Gentry, noting that Baby Fae was "just gulping down her formula." Outside the hospital, there was wonder and excitement over this latest medical marvel, but the enthusiasm was dampened somewhat by controversy. Antivivisectionists around the country and abroad protested what they called "ghoulish tinkering" with human and animal life. "This is medical sensationalism at the expense of Baby Fae, her family and the baboon," charged Lucy Shelton of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. The group was one of several that demonstrated outside the Loma Linda hospital last week. (Read "Baby...
...though, the darker side of human as well as physical nature was on display. Cleanup efforts on Thursday were hindered by traffic jams that backed up two to three miles on either side of the North Carolina-South Carolina border. The cars were packed with families out for some ghoulish sightseeing. -By George J. Church. Reported by Richard Hornik/Boston and JohnE. Yang/Atlanta, with other bureaus
...actor with only $126,000, though the controversy resulted in the passage of California's so-called Coogan Act, which puts all juvenile earnings into court-administered trust funds. Bald and obese in middle age, Coogan never regained movie stardom but charmed a new generation as the ghoulish Uncle Fester in television's The Addams Family...