Word: morbid
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...father suddenly dies, the children are left with no option but to sell their once opulent villa in order to support their mother. However, as money is, the proceeds are quickly spent by the children’s own families. Soon, the mother is passed around like a morbid game of hot potato from child’s house to child’s house, carrying her bird and plants and leaving behind her dignity like Hansel and Gretel’s crumbs. Shouldn’t it be enough that her kids chant forcefully of their dedication to filial...
...Dylan Klebold killed 14 classmates and one teacher at their Littleton, Col., high school, memories of that day remain vivid for anyone who was or knew a high school student at the time. Attempts to identify the “cause” of the murders became a morbid national pastime, with the media and high profile Congress members simplistically blaming everyone from Marilyn Manson to the National Rifle Association for the boys’ lethal actions. Even Michael Moore’s wry and often insightful investigation of the tragedy, last year’s Oscar-winning documentary Bowling...
Readers—such as myself—of Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation resist the seduction of a flavorful McDonald’s hamburger not just out of a morbid fascination with the steak-cooking techniques of the family restaurants of the tri-state area, but also because we know that ground or shredded meat is generally the disturbing equivalent of mystery meat. With the possibility of them harboring everything from nervous tissue to salmonella, processed meat of any variety seems less like a food product, and more like a recipe for illness...
Yorke does have some undeniably morbid tendencies. The first song he ever wrote, at age 11, was called Mushroom Cloud, and much of his Radiohead songbook chronicles the destruction of abstractly good things by abstractly bad things. Still, like all other cynics, he'd like to think he's a romantic. Radiohead has covered Carly Simon's Nobody Does It Better and Glen Campbell's Rhinestone Cowboy in concert, and Yorke insists that the homage is sincere. "Even in the midst of the darkness of Kid A, I still thought we were doing big, romantic pop songs. I mean...
...rules on assisted suicide is wending its way through Swiss parliament, but passage is at least a year off. In the meantime, Zurich authorities may at least try to push groups like Dignitas out of residential areas by categorizing them with sex outlets under zoning laws. "Living here is morbid," says one of Dignitas' neighbors. "We have to witness a constant parade of coffins...