Word: ghoulishness
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...there is no ghoulish sentiment in the rarefied pleasures afforded by Manoel de Oliveira's luminous film. The Franco-Portuguese Voyage to the Beginning of the World is a fable about old age reconciling itself to memory and destiny. Two histories intertwine: a veteran director, also named Manoel (Mastroianni), goes back to the places of his childhood; and an ancient Portuguese woman (Isabel de Castro) meets the French-born son (Jean-Yves Gautier) of her long-lost brother. The old woman is wary of her Francophone nephew--she keeps asking, "Why doesn't he speak our speech?"--until the nephew...
Stewart denies the accusation. But police have sketched a ghoulish scenario supported by witnesses. On Feb. 6, 1992, Stewart, a medical worker, smuggled a syringe filled with infected blood into the hospital where his son, at the time 11 months old, was being treated for a respiratory ailment, police say. He then allegedly injected the boy with the substance. For years the boy was in and out of hospitals, doctors unable to determine the cause of his illnesses. Then, in May 1996, the boy, who does not belong to any high-risk groups, was found to have full-blown AIDS...
...Committee was demanding answers Wednesday over an article due to be published in the December 8 issue of Insight magazine, part of the Washington Times, which quotes anonymous sources saying Clinton sold plots to a handful of Democratic donors. The story, of course, has also become a lot of ghoulish fun for the likes of Rush Limbaugh...
...before I have to, so they obviously drew their own conclusions," she says. "It was really embarrassing since my stuff was out in the common room for everyone to see and I was parading around on a Saturday morning in my Halloween costume and most of my ghoulish make-up still...
...movies, could be paid much, much less to create actors who would give infinitely malleable performances while never demanding gross points or throwing hissies? Or take it a step further: What if Marilyn Monroe, say, could be digitally returned from the dead--and without the neuroses? Is this ghoulish? Something akin to playing God? Well, maybe. And maybe Marilyn could have made Striptease...