Word: morbid
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...level of base, mindless entertainment--and even then, its appeal increases in geometric proportion to the blood-lust of the reader. Like In Cold Blood and Helter Skelter, .44 appeals directly to the mass murderer in each of us, that frightening corner of the soul that feels a morbid thrill each time the television announcer breaks into Edge of Night with news of some new mindless horror. But perhaps for that very reason, books such as .44 might actually be a public service, a means of measuring, by their very popularity, the current level of savagery in American society...
...kibbutzniks try to liven up the mood a bit by telling jokes and bawdy stories. But the humor falls short, turning black and morbid. "If we're killed, at least we won't have to do kitchen duty anymore," one volunteer cracks. In the background we hear the distant but continuous sound of the Palestinian rockets...
...unfortunate, as Wark was doing a strong job defensively, but there is really no time to be morbid now. Challenges await the baseball team today and tomorrow, and with the playoffs so readily in reach it would be morbid indeed if those challenges were...
...York Review of Books? So far, she has proved in exhausting detail that 19th century authors considered tuberculosis a romantic disease. Apparently, part two will show that modern authors do not consider cancer romantic. It all rather leads one to worry about Sontag's worldview: it is a bit morbid, after all, to describe the difference between the centuries in terms of fatal diseases...
Written by a self-described "inside the barricades" White House staffer whom even Nixon's harshest critics always viewed as one of Nixon's "good guys"--a gentle idealist, devoid of malice and full of integrity--With Nixon should be read by all who maintain a fascination, morbid or otherwise, with Richard Nixon and his White House years...