Word: morbidly
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...GENERATIONS OF BIOLOGY STUdents have learned to their morbid delight, insect-mating behavior can be pretty bizarre. The classic example is lovemaking among the praying mantises, where the female has sex with her partner, then eats him for dessert...
When the O.J. trial began, we tended to ignore it, passing over the coverage for news of Bosnia or welfare reform. Unfortunately, America (and maybe our own morbid curiosity) would not let us forget it, plastering the former football star's face across every magazine, television set and Web site known to humankind...
...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...