Word: morbidness
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...that--if Brinton's high birth rate statistics, calorie tallies, and record manufacturing figures (probably weighted down with expensive guns) are unmistakable signs of life. Plump children and comparatively merry faces on bus-riders are Brinton's evidence that the people are content. Eccentric, but by no means morbid, paintings still hang in the familiar Parisian galleries and studios, and though many landmarks are gone, Brinton concludes that Europe has changed less in twenty years than America...
...Francisco Bay," or sending in empty orange juice cans to be used in building a 60-foot antenna. Twenty-five bottle caps earned a listener an "I Dread Red" card, and a usable joke is repaid with an "I Write for CBS" certificate. The jokes are frequently such morbid items as the jingle about a railroad train hitting a girl named Lucy; "The track was juicy, the juice was Lucy." His fans are currently enrolling in an "I Listen to Red in Bed" club...
...just as futile. Against his better judgment, he gets involved in a grandiose piece of foolishness known as "the Collateral Campaign," which is intended to honor the Emperor on his joth Jubilee. The moth-eaten dynastic symbols behind this campaign do not delude Ulrich, but he hangs on from morbid curiosity...
...thoroughly delightful long-playing record includes twelve of his most widely heard and entertaining songs. And there can be no doubt as to their author since the clever lyrics, fine piano work, and professional quality of the music mark them as Lehrer at his best. So does the morbid references to various refinements of violent death, including cannibalism and necrophilia, that wind through the dittics. Also, a generous sprinkling of dirty jokes will probably discourage the cautious student from sending the disc as a Mothers' Day gift...
...Medical definition: one who has a "morbid desire to dress in the clothing of the opposite...