Word: morbidities
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Shooting, bombing, kidnaping, they blazed through West Germany like a latter-day Bonnie and Clyde-and evoked much the same combination of fear and morbid fascination. Ulrike Meinhof was a skilled but emotionally insecure Hamburg writer; Andreas Baader was a pampered Mama's boy. Together, this unlikely couple, she 34 and he 25 when they first teamed up to do violence, became leaders of Western Europe's bloodiest terrorist outfit, dubbed by journalists the Baader-Meinhof gang...
...news dealer, who gets from 20% to 30% of a magazine's cover price, earns five times as much for selling a copy of Hustler as he does from a 45? Woman 's Day. Hustler, says Guccione disdainfully, "has all the allure of a six-car accident. Morbid curiosity...
...your taste runs to the modern (and possibly morbid) you should check out the first play at the Ex this semester (Feb 24-26), Beckett's Play and Come and Go. The former is about three dead people in funeral urns; the latter is about three living women. Directing a play, one has to worry about the element of surprise; the audience must not think it knows how the play is going to end. Nancy Kreiger, director of the Beckett plays wants as "naive" an audience as possible. She's going to stick the "perimental" back onto...
...marriage in December was the source of his last bout of despondency. Though he did surfer over the divorce and worried about his ten-month-old son, those closest to Prinze minimize the domestic problem. Indeed, Prinze had been threatening suicide for more than a year. His morbid bent had led him often to watch a copy he had of the Zapruder film of President Kennedy's assassination. Noted Prinze's TV costar, Jack Albertson: "A combination of things had him down. On the set he would sometimes retreat into himself. But he would recover. He would joke...
More and more Yankee industries and individuals are moving to the deepest South, in no small part because air conditioning has altered the climate itself. Tyrannical heat, delirious summers, dog days that breed flies and sloth, squabbles and morbid introspection are gone with the vent...