Word: morbidity
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...depressing economy or the end of the electrifying election season that's left viewers looking for a little cuteness to offset a malaise, but regardless, these tiny puppies are completely captivating. It's like the car accident you can't turn away from, except a lot less morbid and more adorable...
...play is in large part a tragedy that deals with the consequences arising from humanity’s underlying intolerance and prejudice, Albee’s success stems from his ability to exaggerate the dramatic quality to comic proportions. To achieve that paradoxical effect of hilarity juxtaposed against a morbid backdrop, Albee utilized wordplay, black humor, and even slapstick to counter the mounting tension between the characters as the action progresses to its catastrophic climax. It was precisely this dichotomy that drew director Davida Fernandez-Barkan ’11 to “The Goat...
...while the morbid pull of China's brutal twentieth century history is ever present, it's the portraits of the migrant workers and their lives - at once exciting and mind-numbingly boring, crowded and starkly isolated - that are at the book's heart. The painstaking work Chang put into befriending these girls and drawing out their stories is evident, as is the genuine affection she has for them and their spirit...
...found is Charles Lamb's Selected Essays of Elia. The Essays of Elia also crops up in 84, Charing Cross Road, but Guernsey takes it in a different direction: here we learn that Lamb's sister Mary was a madwoman who stabbed their mother to death. This kind of morbid detail comes up a lot in Guernsey, and it cuts the treacle nicely. The authors have a bracing interest in suffering and death that knocks the cuteness right out of the book. When Dawsey remarks on how cheerful Juliet is, she bristles: "A sunny nature? A light heart? I have...
...painless” scrawled in dust on the windshield. His next move is something of a mystery, but investigators remain fairly convinced it did not involve hurling himself into the river below. A search has yielded no body, and it soon dawned on police that Israel’s morbid window writing was the title of the theme song from "M*A*S*H." (In a meta twist, "M*A*S*H" actually once played the track while a character faked his own suicide...