Word: morbidities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subject this time is Cuauhtémoc-the Aztec hero who tried to defend Mexico City against Cortés after the death of Montezuma. One panel shows Cuauhtémoc being tortured by the Spaniards, along with a bleeding woman and a child with its hands chopped off. Morbid? Goodness, no, said Siqueiros, "unless paintings of Christ on the Cross...
Unlike his artistic hero Turner, who was content to sleep on tavern tables on his cross-country art hikes (and once had himself bound to a ship's mast during a blizzard so he could observe the snow), Steer had a morbid fear of drafts, never went out in bad weather; on landscape sorties, he carried along a platform to keep his feet dry. To make sure of respectful treatment from train porters and inn servants, he lugged his painting gear in a cricketer...
...cowing his countrymen, Trujillo has not escaped the occupational disease of dictators-morbid insecurity. He carries a pistol, frequently wears a bulletproof vest, is usually surrounded by bodyguards, employs a food taster. When he wants a drink, he calls for expensive Spanish brandy (Carlos I), has it sampled by others before he takes...
...most telling scenes, for the kind of people who he presumably hopes will come to see his movie-the packs of ordinary citizens who crowd by car, bus and train to the arid site of Minosa's entombment and settle down cheerfully in tents and trailers for a morbid spectators' holiday. With them come radio and TV showmen and a neon-lighted traveling carnival, with Ferris wheel, pitchmen, hamburger stands and a hillbilly band bawling a specially concocted ballad, We're Coming...
...China is deliberately spread and documented by the Chinese Reds themselves. The Communist papers are at their gleeful best in reporting mass killings of "counter-revolutionaries." The present propaganda line attempts to scare peasants into submission, and so the Red journalist dwells on the gory details with all the morbid gusto of a tabloid reporter on a chorus girl murder...