Word: ghoulish
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Miserable & Mad. Indeed, the slightly schizoid Romantic preoccupation with nature and the supernatural, physical reality and psychological mystery, rooted itself easily in English soil. Swiss-born John Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) emigrated to England at 22 and took up painting with the encouragement of Sir Joshua Reynolds. His ghoulish portrayals of Shakespearean heroes and fantastic chimeras, such as The Nightmare, predated Goya's grotesques by more than a decade and were immensely popular on the Continent. In their desire to get back to nature, the English Romantics also abandoned the ruins of Italy in favor of the English countryside...
...nightmare of ghoulish obscenities," wrote Boston Superior Court Judge Harry Kalus. And so he banned further Massachusetts showings of Titticut Follies, an 87-minute documentary filmed at the state's Bridgewater State Mental Hospital for the criminally insane. Kalus also ordered the film's maker, Frederick Wiseman, to surrender all prints and negatives of the film. Titticut, said Kalus, exceeded the public's right to know about conditions in mental institutions such as Bridgewater...
...Ghoulish Curio. The story has its basis in fact. Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were two veal-faced wrongos who rode out of Texas during the Depression, killing and plundering for fun and profit. The constabulary bushwacked them in May 1934 near Arcadia, La., firing a thousand rounds into the fugitives and their 1934 Ford De Luxe, which 18 years later was still touring auto showrooms as a ghoulish curio. On their own turf, Bonnie and Clyde passed from the front page into folklore; elsewhere, they were relegated to Sunday-supplement features, colorful figures of the gangland...
...ghoulish mix-up was unraveled by Guinn's uncle, William Adkins, who began to doubt his nephew's death when the family received a letter from him dated two days after he supposedly died. Adkins had the corpse exhumed; Army fingerprints showed that the dead soldier was not Guinn but a look-alike Kentuckian, Private First Class Quinn W. Tichenor, also 23 and also with the 4th Infantry. He had been killed just a quarter-mile from where Guinn was fighting...
...famous catch-in-the-throat turned into mere hoarseness, and even her magnificent sense of pitch and timing occasionally failed her. This album is a shockingly honest record of her opening night last July. For those Garland fans who dote on her tragedy, it's full of ghoulish interest. For those who doted on her artistry, it's too sad to play...