Word: morbidity
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...Morbid Phantasies...
...horrible dread at the pit of my stomach, and with a sense of the insecurity of life that I never knew before, and that I have never felt since. It was like a revelation; and although the immediate feelings passed away, the experience has made me sympathetic with the morbid feelings of others ever since...
...husband, shows a pretty flair for direction in his first film. He keeps the story bouncing from pillow to Proust, and he bathes scene after scene in a morning light of such glittering purity that the spectator is simultaneously delighted by the physical beauty and disgusted by the morbid decadence he sees. It's like being served a dead mouse glac...
David (Keir Dullea) is a 17-year-old boy with a high IQ and an obsessive-compulsive neurosis. He lives in morbid horror of dirt, in insane ambition to stop time and so cheat death, in panic dread that someday someone may touch him-"because a touch can kill." Lisa (Janet Margolin) is a 15-year-old girl with soft brown eyes and schizophrenia. She is split into two well-defined personalities. As Lisa she is a silly four-year-old who talks all the time but only in a "word salad" seasoned with rhyme...
...Confederate cannonball that smashed Sickles' right leg helped to make U.S. medical history. After the leg was amputated, a Union medic showed Sickles a year-old circular that directed medical officers "diligently to collect, and -o forward to the office of the Surgeon General, all specimens of morbid anatomy, surgical or medical, which may be regarded as valuable...