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...experimental fooling-around mentioned in the book is Eric Kast's work in Chicago. Kast decided to send 128 doomed cancer patients into hopped-up oblivion by giving them LSD without warning or previous instruction. He then calmly graphed the depression and "fear and panic" reactions, hallucinations and morbid fears of death...
Reviewing the legal precedents for a decision in either direction, Macaulay decided Fanny Hill "goes far beyond and substantially beyond customary limits of candor and makes persistent appeals to shameful and morbid interests in prolonged, detailed and florid descriptions of sexual activities;" he also asserted his agreement with the dissent in the 4-3 New York Court of Appeals decision that the book is protected by the First Amendment...
Fish from the Freezer. Uncomfortable the viewers most certainly were. Albright, who was tapped by Hollywood to portray Dorian Gray in his penultimate desuetude, collects adjectives like "loathsome," "gruesome," "morbid," "putrescent" and "repulsive" the way other painters collect gold medals. But, he protests, "in any part of life you find something either growing or disintegrating. Let's say I'm equally interested in growth and decay...
...objects are falling, others are rising, others are spiraling in a kind of controlled chaos. I compose in motion. I wish to create tension and conflict." Nor, after the first shock has passed, are his models bereft of their own kind of grandeur. Decay, once faced, gradually loses its morbid horror. Albright seems more the dedicated diamond cutter who positions his gem, then splits it into perfect fragments of glitter and decay. Albright's real goal is thus to make the viewer feel the precise sense of death implicit in life, and that split second when both are terribly...
...biographies of her predecessors. Her father is a farmer manque who now runs an appliance store in Pittsburgh. "Our household had much strife," Carroll says. "If I ever write an autobiography, I will start at 18. I don't like to concentrate on things that are morbid. My parents gave me nothing spiritual or ethical or moral-no set of standards by which to live." When she went to Pittsburgh for the local premiere of The Carpetbaggers, her father refused to see her. He hasn't spoken to her for ten years...