Word: ghoulish
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...against the cold are peasants laboring in a field or just people plodding through the snow, the sense of oppression here is very real. The work is made of fragments until the isolated images of the dancers become rapidly more systematic and simultaneous. The climax brings a kind of ghoulish march with the eyes of each dancer riveted to a demonic force, unseen by the audience, which surrounds and controls them...
Edie's physical appearance, a sort of Jackie Kennedy-on-the-skids look, lends a ghoulish touch to the movie. It is almost as if Andy Warhol had decided to film Camelot. "Come in," Edie purrs soothingly, "we're not ready yet." She is thoroughly disorganized--she wears her dresses upside down, empties loaves of Wonderbread for the raccoons in the attic, dons a different makeshift scarf in each sequence to cover her head (which may or may not be bald...
...Christian belief in redemption through Christ's atonement on the cross for the sins of mankind. In fact, Nag Hammadi texts depict a Jesus who did not die on the cross at all. In their version, Simon of Cyrene carried the cross to Golgotha and-by ghoulish accident-was crucified in Christ's place while Jesus looked down from above and laughed. The Nag Hammadi texts were packed away 16 centuries ago, perhaps to protect them from book-burning Christian opponents. The texts, rediscovered in 1945 or 1946, were probably hidden in a large jar in a mountainside...
...Fine Arts tonight opens "The Changing Image: Prints by Francisco Goya." Goya, perhaps the outstanding artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, was both a painter and excellent graphic artist. Many of his prints--especially those from the end of his career--exhibit a strange kind of ghoulish melancholy over the state of human life. This show takes Goya's etchings and, using loans from Europe and the United States and the museum's own collection, traces the changes he made as each print advanced from state to state. They exhibit as many as four preliminary drawings...
...floating hubcap-deep in water. The text explained that Volkswagen's watertight construction-a selling point in genuine VW ads-would have prevented the 1969 drowning of Mary Jo Kopechne. Volkswagen of America began receiving outraged letters from readers who thought that VW itself was responsible for the ghoulish idea ("I will be damned if I will buy another Volkswagen after seeing an ad like the attached," wrote one customer...