Word: morbid
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...finish of the jump. The event was tedious under any conditions, and on Saturday only a battle-hardened North Korean could have stood the bitter cold for very long. The whole business of ski jumping is rather repetitious, give or take a few feet in distance, and those morbid thrill-seekers who waited in hopes of seeing a spectacular spill were disappointed, fortunately...
After an introduction by Herself ("I hope you will enjoy it, for the writer who cannot please an audience might as well stop writing . . ."), Theater of Romance plunged into a disconcertingly morbid little story about an accountant (Walter Abel) who was depressed because he had no material goods to leave his family. But his wife and children clamorously reminded him of all the good times they had had together, and the 30-minute show ended with everyone misty-eyed and agreeing that money can't buy happiness. Sentiments like these, flowering in Faith Baldwin's prose, have earned...
...charming family who live in the Murray Hill district of New York, and one can hardly hold it against them that they are all either witches or warlocks. Author John van Druten is preoccupied with this interesting aspect of their private lives, and he manages to evoke the same morbid curiosity in the audience throughout the course of three acts...
...Lighter Side. Two new books answer most of the questions about Addams and his work: Monster Rally, a collection of 91 of the best recent Addams drawings, and Afternoon in the Attic, a selection of congenially morbid little pieces by John Kobler, which is illustrated by Addams. In addition to his essays on such subjects as the Grand Guignol and Madame Tussaud's Waxworks, Kobler includes a biographical sketch of his illustrator...
...shock effect of Sunset Boulevard is at least as high as that of such earlier Brackett & Wilder productions as the alcoholic Lost Weekend. The "hero" is a kept man, the leading lady a suicidal neurotic in her 50s, and their morbid liaison leads grimly on to madness and death. Manipulated less cleverly, the effect of these characters and their story would be oppressively decadent, not to say censorable. Indeed, for all the film's finesse, it may leave some moviegoers with a bad taste in their mouths. Yet, without sentimentalizing the characters or condoning their transgressions, the movie makes...