Word: morbid
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...lists Richard Carpenter as executive producer) is blunt about the troubles the young stars faced: overprotective, underaffectionate parents (Louise Fletcher, Peter Michael Goetz), Richard's drug problems, Karen's growing obsession with losing weight. The scrubbed duo make drug abuse look positively wholesome, but the movie deftly grafts the morbid thrills of a disease-of-the-week drama onto a traditional show...
There is nothing wrong with remembering a fallen President, particularly one who has commanded such high regard in our national pantheon, but the timing and focus of these remembrances is nothing less than morbid, with a sick tendency to linger upon the assassination of the man rather than the accomplishments of his life...
...Marcos Dynasty, which ends with Imelda and an ailing Ferdinand flying off to exile in Hawaii, falls into the morbid subbranch of literature that Joyce Carol Oates has dubbed pathography. As such, it is a book with notable flaws. Seagrave, whose previous works include a biography of China's legendary Soong sisters, writes with glum prosecutorial fury, treating as credible any rumor of lurid conduct -- Imelda's alleged lesbian orgies, for example -- that helps his cause. When venturing into broader areas, like Washington's postwar foreign policy in the Far East, the author lapses into a crude historical revisionism, rejecting...
While U.S. officials struggled to explain how the U.S.S. Vincennes had mistakenly shot down Iran Air Flight 655 with 290 civilians aboard, the mullahs who run Iran sought to make the most of their morbid propaganda windfall. Public memorial services took place in at least four cities. At Bandar Abbas, the coastal town from which the doomed jet took off, reporters were given a look at some of the bloated and mutilated bodies of the victims, about 170 of whom had been dragged from the Persian Gulf by week...
...symbolic importance of Kennedy's assassination explains our morbid fascination with his death. Though only a lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald, was blamed for Kennedy's murder, since 1963, books accusing the Cubans, the Mafia, and even the CIA have become a veritable cottage industry. The worst of these have had all the marks of crack-pot conspiracy theories, delegitimizing the conclusion reached even by a 1979 government committee that Kennedy probably was the victim of a conspiracy...