Word: morbidly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EVEN AMONG mass murderers, the case of Theodore Robert Bundy stands out, the most grimly fascinating of them all. While all psycho-killers lock us in a morbid, white-knuckled attention, Bundy's story seemed especially intolerable and seductive...
A.T.C. concerns the living arrangement of three people-Earl, an alienated poseur; Laurie, a morbid bank teller; and Jake, a banal house painter and eater of grilled cheese. Earl has snuffed someone, so he is at the mercy of a mysterious Mr. White, the landlord who never comes on the stage. Laurie is Earl's former girlfriend--she is the only one who deals with Mr. White. Jake is a mass of muscle and simplicity, the common man who finds himself lost in the midst of this weirdness. Laurie works at the A.T.C.--American Trust Company--and the play...
...master-of-ceremonies at the Christopher Columbus Community Center on Prince Street looked like he was making his last speech and insisted on telling morbid jokes. ("I was in the hospital six weeks, even. With two operations they couldn't kill me.") With the aid of an equally frail assistant, this doddering Johnny Carson finally sputtered Jimmy Carter's name. The President rose to remind 1000 senior citizens that they should be thrilled to be alive and loyal Democrats. He did it brilliantly...
America thus knows the small town to be many things. Yet today, given the morbid problems of the cities -the incessant shriek of crisis, the hovering buzzards of bankruptcy, the noise, the crowds, the filth, the violence, the fear-it is easy to imagine that the small town offers, no matter what else, an escape from all that. But does it really...
...that on matters of Islamic scholarship he is less profound than some of his fellow ayatullahs?notably Seyed Kazem Sharietmadari. Numerous Western scholars who have spoken to him have been shocked by his ignorance of modern life. He knows little of the non-Muslim world, and regards it with morbid suspicion...