Word: morbidly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only clear lesson to come out of the U.N. women's conference in Beijing is that China is run by a band of ill- mannered male chauvinist control freaks. The major U.S. news outlets have dwelt, with morbid fascination, on the abuses of women in China, from forced sterilization to the strong-arm tactics of the Chinese police. This is valuable information, especially for the one-quarter of the world's women who are Chinese. But did 40,000 women have to travel to Beijing just to confirm what one man, Harry Wu, more or less established a couple...
...loss of his trusted colleague, Disney president Frank Wells, then began reading his own professional obituaries as he lay in a hospital recovering from heart surgery, and then read his company's obituaries--with headlines like CLOUDS OVER DISNEYLAND. Indeed, Wall Street analysts and rubbernecking Hollywood types watched with morbid glee the departure of one top Disney brain after another, to be replaced by men derided as Eisner's bean counters. The fact that in 1994 his company produced the year's top movie, The Lion King; the top-rated TV show, Home Improvement; and the hit Broadway musical Beauty...
...drunk" as he or she does on "age". Will Self approached the podium with a beer in his hand, and without even reading from a text he recited a lengthy short story which he had learned by heart. Hagar ironically states that is was "recited quite beautifully...a morbid, witty short story." Albeit while the author was "drunk?" Will Self was not drunk. He simply veered away from the conventional and often stoic approaches to giving a reading by bringing a beer to the podium. He was still nursing in after the hordes of "old people" had finished getting their...
Over at General Hospital, once TV's top-rated soap and currently a slightly faded No. 3, writers seem to be aiming for morbid, publicity-conscious social relevance. Last week ABC held a press conference to announce the launch of a new G.H. plot line revolving around dyslexic heartthrob Stone Cates (Michael Sutton). Stone, a former street kid who dates likable Port Charles teen Robin Scorpio (Kimberly McCullough), has just discovered that he is HIV positive. His illness will progress in what network press material describes as "real time" and will "not be rushed for the sake of accommodation...
...digress. Self, the opening act, recited quite beautifully from memory a morbid, witty short story called "Scale." Amis read from his latest novel, The Information, to much laughter and applause from the old people...