Word: ghoulish
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King, 36, his wife Tabitha and three children divide their time between a 23-room Bangor mansion and a summer place in the foothills of the White Mountains. His houses bear a few traces of his ghoulish trade - like a collection of two dozen grotesque masks, many of them sent by fans...
...into someone who is petty and disagreeable, who has taken cynicism an unnecessary extra step." Robert Maynard, editor of the Oakland Tribune, agrees: "When people see a TV person shoving a mike in front of a grieving relative, all of us in the press appear to be boorish and ghoulish." TV executives reply that print can get away with more aggressive behavior because it is gray and abstract rather than immediate...
...There's ghoulish side to journalism," she says, explaining that similar stories of human hardship recur, coming "back to haunt you." "Once a reporter has done a story, it's old news. The editor wants something different," adds Bernstein, who thinks reporters should have more opportunities to do follow-up stories as in-depth projects...
...ghoulish climax, less than 48 hours after the assassination, Oswald was murdered right in the Dallas police station, by nightclub manager and police hanger-on Jack Ruby...
...little of both, accompanied by the hard-breathing beat of Ravel's Boléro. In Arthur, an even bigger hit, duties were shared by Liza Minnelli and John Gielgud, who played his long-suffering valet. There have been a couple of flops along the way, notably the ghoulish Six Weeks, whose bad reviews have left the star angry and bewildered...