Word: morbidities
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...economic news is all it takes to rouse Wall Streeters from their morbid agnosticism, the Dow would have hit 36,000 back in March. These days, good news from Main Street is just plain good news. And Tuesday actually cooperated, if only in the wan, incremental proportions that is the best good news we get these days...
...just about tips, though. Throughout the sites, visitors are bombarded by images of waif-thin models and movie stars. Some have been altered to appear emaciated. Others are, perhaps even more disturbingly, left untouched. Either way, the effect is immediate: Revulsion followed by a kind of morbid fascination. How on earth did she get to be that thin? Then, clicking away, moving on to the next screen, a barrage of "Thinsprirations," as one site names its pro-thin quotes. ("Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels," reads...
...that people were fascinated by the story in the slightly prurient way that we all can't help but look at the slow-motion video of a car crash. And, yes, I knew that as an editor I could fashion some journalistic angle that would justify dwelling on the morbid tick-tock of the killings. We could look at post-partum depression or why she "snapped", or the role of the father or her doctor or any number of possible explanations...
...York really fall in love with today’s Knicks. A healthy following does exist, but the draw seems to be a sort of morbid fascination rather than real affection. Some fans are repulsed by the thug image perpetuated by some of the players—Charles Oakley and Anthony Mason four years ago or Latrell Sprewell and Kurt Thomas today. Other fans are only mildly interested by the constant subplot, but never really grow attached to the actual team...
...aims. Drawings of cartoonish, round-headed figures aptly called “Greenheads” depic confrontational situations that appear slightly amusing until closely inspected. The figures, which seem alien-like at first glance due to their green heads, soon come to resemble human beings in compromising positions. Morbid scenes of violence show lynchings, detached limbs, captivity and fear. Ali’s fine-grained gouache techniques allow her to emphasize disturbing minute details, like Confederate flags on the belt buckles of figures resembling Klu Klux Klansmen, and to depict race issues without using black and white...