Word: morbidly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...album opens auspiciously with the dark, mechanical "Paralyzed," immediately revealing how far Persson' voice has come from the cute whispers of her early word. Though the subject matter--a morbid depiction of love as "the sweetest way to die"--recalls the debased impulses of "Lovefool," there is no meek ingenue here. Persson's vocals now bristle with a surprising fury while a guitar whines and cracks in the background like the resurrected ghost of desire. When the striking hook emerges in the expansive chorus, it has epic weight of truth; love is, as the Cardigans insist, the surrender of sanity...
...crash is part of popular legend now. The 13th pillar in the Alma tunnel has become a place of morbid pilgrimage: a way station in the re-enactment of Diana's life and death. But a thousand imponderables lie behind the tragic tale of that car accident on Aug. 31, 1997, that also killed her lover Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul. French authorities still have no clear answers to many vexing questions. They say they have definitively ruled out the possibility of a conspiracy, and now consider the crash an accident owing mainly to drunk driving, excessive speed...
...funny James Urbaniak) is literally lying in the street waiting for...something. Henry (Thomas Jay Ryan, pinwheeling raffish charisma) has everything, and too much of it. He swaggers, smokes, guzzles beer, grabs life by the butt and gives it a fat smack. He makes abrupt love to Simon's morbid mother (Maria Porter) and bored sister (Parker Posey). He is, he tells Simon, an artist, the author of a huge, unpublished tome called My Confession; and he encourages Simon to lift himself from lethargy and create his own masterpiece...
...friend says it's a myth that he was voted "Most Likely to Start World War III" by schoolmates, one gets the sense that Kip wouldn't have minded the tag. In fact, according to people close to the investigations, after their arrests both Luke and Michael expressed a morbid appreciation of their infamy...
...Hope's case of death-by-media is an apt example of the over-the-top business of celebrity death today. In the absence of wars, economic problems or the O.J. Simpson trial, the media vacuum is conveniently and easily filled by morbid, yet highly-rated, coverage of a famous one's passing...