Word: morbidities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...ideas for his expertly drawn studies. "Every day," he says, "I saw a good accident picture on the front page of the newspaper." His vigorously abstract paintings might be interpreted by some as safety-first posters, but he denies any desire "to preach," tries to steer clear of "the morbid aspects of an accident" by painting his traffic victims without any trace of gore...
...life, like a bee at a rose, began very early to torment Rainer Maria Rilke. It tormented him unceasingly for 51 years, extracting from him a rarefied poetry that has delighted the palates of European esthetes for the last quarter-century. Yet Rilke's poetic flavors-and the morbid scent of wet rot that rises from his life-have prevented many a poetry reader from acquiring the Rilke taste...