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...points out that for all the good that can be said of him, Shattuck has a dark side: a "morbid love of New Haven" that he shares with Daly, both of whom graduated from Yale College...

Author: By By JOSHUA E. gewolb, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Former Harvard Vice President Named Head of Kennedy Foundation | 8/4/2000 | See Source »

Guessing who's going to be next has become a kind of morbid party game. It has given rise to the dotcom dead pool, a highly popular website run by 24-year-old New Yorker Philip Kaplan (found at the X-rated address F_____dCompany.com) Launched on Memorial Day, it has already received more than 80,000 sign-ups. Kaplan's secret: besides running sweepstakes on the big losers, his site has quickly become the central rumor mill of the Internet economy. Human-resources departments scour it for tips on where to send the headhunters next, and analysts check...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is This The End.com? | 7/3/2000 | See Source »

...Ricci provides a measured performance as Katrina -- she has a sort of morbid poise, staring out with curiously dead brown eyes and long tousled blond hair. But she seems awfully young next to Depp. Their romance is a curious blend of mild flirtation and terrible one-liners that leave the audience wondering whether to laugh or cringe; with lines like "You're white magic," you never know if Burton's being serious...

Author: By Sarah L. Gore, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sleepy Hollow, Creepy Hollow | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

...have a morbid fear of bunk beds. Bottom--I Don't imagine the fall to the Dewolfe floor would be comfortable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Would You Rather... | 10/28/1999 | See Source »

Gorey has said, "I was probably fully formed by the time I was 21 or 22." Indeed, his work, beginning with The Unstrung Harp of 1953, has been remarkably consistent: anachronistic, morbid and arcane from the first. Besides illustrating his books, Gorey's drawings grace countless engagement calendars and postcards, the animated opening sequence of PBS's "Mystery!" series, the covers of paperback classics published by Anchor Books in the '50s and '60s, dorm-room posters, and so on. If you do not think you have seen his work, you are probably wrong...

Author: By Annie Bourneuf, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Gorey Loses His Touch | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

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