Word: ghoulish
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...rise was so rapid that it can be traced to her very first picture, The Trouble with Harry (1955), a Hitchcock exercise in ghoulish gaiety. She was the cute little widow who could help exhume and rebury her husband's corpse half a dozen times, looking fond, puzzled, but no more perturbed than the president of a garden club transplanting gardenias. Next came Artists and Models, one of the last joint Martin & Lewis enterprises, in which Shirley ("I was a forward comedienne in a yellow sunsuit") distinguished herself chiefly by becoming the first performer ever to steal a scene...
...morbid and ghoulish...
...Britain can expect to increase her wealth by no less than 41%." Then the fun began. While a jazz band blared and soot bombs burst in air, No. 2 Tory Butler plunged stoically onward with his nuclear-energy speech, wearing a wintry smile and, progressively, two ripe tomatoes, a ghoulish facial paste of flour and eggs, wreaths of toilet paper and, finally, foamy spray from a battery of fire extinguishers. Among the other casualties: a photographer kayoed by a huge cabbage featly thrown, a constable hurled through a plate-glass window, four exuberant students collared for what a magistrate called...
...neither foolish nor ghoulish...
There are those to whom the scaffold is a pulpit and those to whom it is the stage for a ghoulish Punch-and-Judy show. One of the pulpiteers is Britain's ex-Hungarian, ex-Communist Arthur Koestler, whose brilliant contribution to the campaign for the abolition of hanging in Britain has been published in the U.S. To Koestler (who languished for months under sentence of death in a Franco prison), hanging is no joke. To Dublin's Brendan Behan...