Word: morbidly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...screaming. Then I looked up ... and up ... and up ... and there, 14 stories above me, the front car climbed over the apex and began to plunge. My stomach did the opposite, rising inside me as though I was hurtling earthward at a 55-degree angle. I looked away. But morbid curiosity got the better of me, and I followed the train. It rose; it dipped; it soared; it whipped--spinning finally into a whirlpool of track to the base...
...rage" can cause an Adolf Hitler to act as he did, if it can cause men to attempt to assassinate Presidents and Popes, and shoot blank cartridges at Queens, why cannot "internalized anger and rage" cause the bowels to churn themselves into inflammatory masses, coronary arteries to turn into morbid spasms and bronchial tubes to go into asthmatic constrictions? There are many professionals who believe there may be a great psychosomatic component to Crohn's disease...
...Cuba, but law does not necessarily determine practice. Argentines routinely weekend in Uruguay to shop -and to have illegal but readily available abortions. In Brazil, the government is slowly introducing a national family planning program (in deference to the church, the words "birth control" are not used), while a morbid and lucrative illegal abortion business thrives...
...they only have to fear the repression and condescension from a society that targets them for debasement. But many cannot evade the question of why they are what they are. Emotional trauma over the stark facts has always led a few to suicide; others have been instilled with a morbid sense of shame and self-hatred. Moral revisionists will no doubt blame such personal tragedies on the evil influence of society and public opinion in defining attitues and constricting freedom of sexual behavior. Changes in the way society sees gays and lesbians have accompanied the more cosmopolitan viewpoint...
...movie is that we live like animals, he lives like a director. Taxi Driver was nihilistic, but the view was Travis's; and if we suspected all along that it was Scorsese's as well, that was incidental. Raging Bull, unmediated by any narrator, reveals only the diseased, morbid horror of Scorsese's mind. It is a paranoid vision of America...