Word: ghoulishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ever since its publication in 1949, Paul Bowles' The Sheltering Sky has been praised for its portrayal of a modern married couple afflicted with ennui, malaise, anomie -- the chic social diseases that Americans of the postwar era picked up from French intellectuals. But the novel has another ghoulish attraction: it maps out the all-time nightmare itinerary for the innocent abroad...
...Janis Joplin, "although I couldn't speak a word of English." She got started in East Berlin's jazz circuit and has since emerged as an international rock star. Meantime, she has made more changes than Madonna, festooning herself with chains and wearing metal bras, wild wigs and ghoulish makeup. On her latest album, Hagen pounds out a number titled Gorbachev Rap. After all, she explains, it's important to encourage Mikhail...
...petite Levine delivers an energetic performance, in her spoken lines and especially in her musical numbers. Her reactions to various ghoulish courters--exaggerated facial expressions directed at the audience--are particularly enjoyable...