Word: morbidly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...silence, however, was not all that surprising considering the monumentally morbid task at hand...
Yahia's portrait of a woman trying to handle her sweet but selfish ex, weirdly morbid son, and suspiciously amorous psychiatrist, is exuberantly crazy. When she belts out lines like "the only thing that's breaking up is my family...me, I'm breaking down," you believe it. Yahia has a compelling presence and strong voice which underscore the inner strenght of Trina. Trina doesn't break down; she survives...
...narrator, Jimi tends to focus on the most unsavory moments of his life. With the morbid curiosity of an adolescent he describes the smells, shapes, and the sizes of his own chunks of vomit. He strives to get it just right. But do we care? Many passages in this book, like the pulp it's named after, deserves nothing more than a skimming, if that...
...romantic comedy about looking for love while Saddam Hussein's Scud missiles are headed for Tel Aviv. Says its director, U.S.-born Israeli Eytan Fox: ``Israeli films tend to be ideological and socially and politically oriented. No wonder Israelis run away from them as too heavy and morbid.'' Not so for Fox's Song of the Sirens: since opening last October, it has attracted 145,000 moviegoers, more than the other 12 made-in-Israel films of 1994 combined. It is being shown at the Berlin Film Festival that got under way last week...
...first, I thought it was morbid curiosity, but now I'm really worried. My roommate has been watching the O.J. Simpson trial non-stop! He reads everything in the press, listens to all the talk radio, and gets into wild debates in the dining hall with anyone who makes the mistake of sitting next to him. I think he's obsessed. He just told me he wants to splice a cable wire so we can get cable...and Court TV. And worst of all: He thinks O.J. is innocent. I'm scared, Norma, very scared...