Word: morbidly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tempo Devil with the Green Eyes, Sweet laments, "You were never meant to be mine/ 'Cause I came up from a dark world/ And every love I've ever known is dead." At such moments, backed by Quine's corrosive electric guitar, Sweet takes sentiments that could have been morbid or sappy and renders them bracingly bittersweet...
...proletariat passion of Black 47's songs that make the group stand out. "So hold on to your rifles, boys, don't give up your dream/ Of a Republic for the workin' class, economic liberty," Kirwan sings on the cut James Connolly. There's morbid humor too, as on the semiautobiographical song Maria's Wedding, about a drunk, frustrated suitor who crashes an ex- girlfriend's nuptials, promising the bride he'll quit his band and "even...
...grandfather, an American migrant to Mexico, became a photographer in the early days of the art and specialized in elaborate portraits of dead children in confirmation finery. A meningitis plague brought him prosperity. He was a journeyman, but his son, her father, became a famed photographic artist, whose morbid specialty was a long series of nude photographs of Ann, before puberty, arranged as if dead. As the adult Ann spirals out of control, a big retrospective show of her father's work is set to open...
...sounds like the most morbid of questions to ask of a patient: "Why aren't you dead yet -- or even sick?" Looking for the answers may prove to be one of the most productive avenues of research in the battle against AIDS. By shifting their focus to the healthy, many researchers believe they can make dramatic improvements in the treatment of everyone who is infected with HIV -- whether ailing or not. Just as important, their work could channel the scattershot search for a vaccine into new and more promising directions. "Early in the epidemic we thought everyone who got infected...
This film could easily have degenerated into boring moralism or vacuous exploitation. But a wry sense of humor links these two strains without letting either predominate. Key ideas lie cloaked in outrageous jokes both slapstick and morbid. As a scene involving lobsters and mayonnaise proves, a well-chosen coating can make even the thorniest issues more palatable...