Word: ghoulish
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Even the hocus-pocus of Madison Avenue wags cannot conceal the charm of this seething French thriller. Forget the yellow shirt and the unsigned promise. In the vein of a sardonic O. Henry, Diabolique sometimes is ghoulish and gross, and is never very subtle. The ending, quite as startling as the man in the yellow shirt had you believe, induces a feeling of mental ineptitude. You wonder whether you weren't paying attention at the critical moment; perhaps it's because the director, Henri-Georges Clouzot, is simply a very clever...
Paula Budlong again presents one of her sketches of human irrationality, the theme this time being an old maid's hatred of her father and the responsibility of caring for him. The story is not very complex, not, in fact, as complex as her previously published ghoulish stories. From the first, one knows the inevitable result of her plot, but, as in Gide's Immoralist, this element of inexorability adds in power what it takes away in dramatic tension. Miss Budlong uses her details well and her narrative is clear, with the exception of an unintentionally misleading last paragraph...
...wake of the recent disastrous floods in New England, Connecticut's Governor Abraham A. Ribicoff loudly denounced as "ghoulish" reported attempts to lure hard-hit industries to the flood-free South. Actually, no industries have left the state as a result of the floods. But his suspicions were understandable. With industry spending a record $27.3 billion on expansion this year, almost every state, county and city in the nation is hungrily trying to lure new industries. Says Victor Roterus, area development chief for the U.S. Commerce Department: "Competition to get new industry has never been rougher...
...Annie Oakley, the beetle hunter, can bowl over her hard-shelled victims with a saddle shot that pierces a tiny chink in the beetle's armor and penetrates precisely to its central nerve-control station. One rakish little black and red hunting wasp specializes in the praying mantis, ghoulish grizzly of the insect world. Ducking away from the praying mantis' gaping arms, she zooms back and forth like a pendulum behind the giant's head until its narrowly watching eyes tire of keeping track of this baffling tennis game. Then, quicker than human eye can follow...
Cartoonist Searle studied at the Technical School, whose windows overlooked the County School tennis courts. As these also served as a playground and basketball courts, there was very little time during the day that these courts were vacant ... so Mr. Searle had ample opportunity to look for ghoulish girls. As a contemporary of Mr. Searle's and an "old girl" of the high school, that knock-kneed, spotty-faced gargoyle wearing glasses, in the chem lab of St. Trinian's [see cut] could quite possibly...