Word: morbidly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dying and the new cannot be born. In the interregnum, a great variety of morbid symptoms appear...
...great variety of symptoms that confronted the Communists of East Germany and Czechoslovakia last week were not morbid, but they did carry the risk of metastasizing into something dangerous. As exhilarating as the rapid pace of change may be, the tight grip of party rule that seemed unshakable just weeks ago has loosened to the point of presenting both countries with the prospect of events slipping out of control. Though the revolution in East Berlin continues to outrace changes in Prague, the dynamics of tumult are much the same in both countries. Besieged party leaders grant one desperate concession ) after...
...could speculate endlessly about the source of our fascination with catastrophe: it could stem from an intrinsic human penchant for the morbid, from a profound national boredom rooted in suburbanization, from an intense nervousness about what the future holds for those who lived through the profligate America of the 1980s, or from any other number of conditions or some combination thereof...
...beginning of the movie is predicatable but funny, with Ryan as an uptight good girl who doesn't eat between meals, and Crystal playing an arrogant and morbid bullshit-artist. It reads like the old boy-meets-girl formula, with a modern twist...
...satisfy a personal need, but Sherry's tribulations do not yield much about Greene's nature. For that, the biographer hits the conventional paper trail: books, journals, diaries, letters and periodicals. His impressive accumulation supports what readers of Greene's writings have already had reason to suspect: his morbid childhood fears ripened into the themes...