Word: horror
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...talk of goodwill springing from horror, it's unlikely to speed the peace process much, which slowly resumed after months of inaction following last July's bombings of commuter trains in Mumbai. Brahma Chellaney, a professor at the Centre for Policy Research in Delhi, says there are bigger issues to overcome once the mourning has passed. "A normal relationship is not going to happen unless it's founded on closer economic and energy integration," he says. Perhaps, but at least the dialogue is no longer as easy to derail as trains...
...this horror show of raging fights, "mother's-little-helpers," and constant humiliation, Kominsky Crumb establishes the sub-themes that will run through her life and art: negative self image, always striving to please others and the need to escape. Subsequent chapters detail the author's early adulthood as the quintessential hippie chick. At 19 she hangs out in New York's Lower East Side and soon becomes pregnant amidst a series of lovers, none of whom she can recall since she was so high all the time. These stories of free love, massive drug and alcohol abuse...
...beginning. "Wasted" is a strong word, but not an inaccurate one if you believe the war was wrong. (In fact, the verb "to waste" became a synonym for killing during Vietnam.) But Obama, like every other politician, has to watch his words, and must temper any sincere expression of horror and dismay, or he will be accused of not "supporting the troops...
...past few months, Gittoes' drawings have portrayed a less particular and more generalized kind of horror. His Exhausted Still Walking, 2006, gives the impression of war as a spiraling, replicating beast. Perhaps not coincidentally, Gittoes has been meeting with Korean animators to help turn his diaries into a graphic novel and feature film. The artist sees this as all part of a larger multimedia project, to be called Night Vision. It was while traveling with a U.N. peacekeeping force in Somalia 14 years ago that Gittoes tried on his first pair of night-vision goggles-complaining in his diary that...
...ongoing series at the Harvard Film Archive comprising films suggested by Hoberman reflects the same distinctive taste. “Poetic Horror, Pop Existentialism, and Cheap Sci-Fi: Cold War Cinema 1948-1964” will continue through the spring...