Word: morbidities
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This theme runs through all his work but achieves its greatest expression in Pale Fire. The novel has two parts: a morbid autobiographical poem written by John Shade, and a dotty commentary by an admirer, Charles Kinbote. But is that really all there is to it? No, argues Field, who suggests that not only the poem but the commentary are Shade's work: he has absorbed Kinbote's theories and has fashioned the commentary as an extravagant coda to his own poem. This kind of argument about a possible fiction within a fiction -essentially, the was-Hamlet-reallymad...
Accustomed as she is to having her picture taken, these photos nevertheless "had no aim except that of arousing the morbid curiosity of the public," complained Brigitte Bardot, 32, in a suit co-filed with Husband Giinter Sachs, 34, against Playmen, a grotesque new Italian caricature of Playboy. The magazine garnished its second issue with a five-picture layout of a topless BB, looking mighty like a senior citizen, sunbathing in Rome with her totally in-the-skin husband, unaware that a paparazzo had, in Brigitte's words, "cut a hole in the dense vegetation surrounding the swimming pool...
...should write one's diary for one's great-grandson," writes Sir Harold Nicolson in the diary he kept faithfully for 34 years of his active life as a prolific author and sometime Member of Parliament. "The purely private diary becomes too self-centred and morbid. One should have a remote, but not too remote, audience...
...year-old Quebec stevedore complained of stomach pains, weight loss, nausea, shortness of breath and a cough. Most frightening of all, his face had turned a morbid blue-grey. Doctors suspected a severe vitamin deficiency, but when 49 identical cases appeared within seven months in the Quebec area, they questioned their first diagnosis...
...fighting a possible three-year sentence, Driscoll pleaded Freeman insanity. Though not psychotic, testified his psychiatrist, the lawyer had "morbid depressions" that inhibited him from finishing important work. Driscoll's defense also brought forward 15 impressive character witnesses, including Louis Nichols, the FBI's ex-No. 2 man and now executive vice president of Schenley Industries. They all testified to his good reputation. Driscoll got a hung jury: six jurors voted to convict, six to acquit for insanity. So he, too, may be retried...