Word: morbidities
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...Cuba, but law does not necessarily determine practice. Argentines routinely weekend in Uruguay to shop -and to have illegal but readily available abortions. In Brazil, the government is slowly introducing a national family planning program (in deference to the church, the words "birth control" are not used), while a morbid and lucrative illegal abortion business thrives...
...they only have to fear the repression and condescension from a society that targets them for debasement. But many cannot evade the question of why they are what they are. Emotional trauma over the stark facts has always led a few to suicide; others have been instilled with a morbid sense of shame and self-hatred. Moral revisionists will no doubt blame such personal tragedies on the evil influence of society and public opinion in defining attitues and constricting freedom of sexual behavior. Changes in the way society sees gays and lesbians have accompanied the more cosmopolitan viewpoint...
...movie is that we live like animals, he lives like a director. Taxi Driver was nihilistic, but the view was Travis's; and if we suspected all along that it was Scorsese's as well, that was incidental. Raging Bull, unmediated by any narrator, reveals only the diseased, morbid horror of Scorsese's mind. It is a paranoid vision of America...
EVEN AMONG mass murderers, the case of Theodore Robert Bundy stands out, the most grimly fascinating of them all. While all psycho-killers lock us in a morbid, white-knuckled attention, Bundy's story seemed especially intolerable and seductive...
A.T.C. concerns the living arrangement of three people-Earl, an alienated poseur; Laurie, a morbid bank teller; and Jake, a banal house painter and eater of grilled cheese. Earl has snuffed someone, so he is at the mercy of a mysterious Mr. White, the landlord who never comes on the stage. Laurie is Earl's former girlfriend--she is the only one who deals with Mr. White. Jake is a mass of muscle and simplicity, the common man who finds himself lost in the midst of this weirdness. Laurie works at the A.T.C.--American Trust Company--and the play...