Word: morbidness
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...Playroom is a morbid, two-hour, sadistic drip-tease. The drips are a revolting quintet of teen-age boys and girls who call themselves "the Filthy Five," and hang out in a surrealistically appointed turret room of a quaint Manhattan apartment building. These kids are not remotely real, but they have most of the commercially fashionable maladjustments from homosexuality to reefer-dragging, though Playwright Mary Drayton permits one youngster to be merely obese...
William Hanley's Slow Dance on the Killing Ground is kind of a New York version of Sartre's No Exit. Three people with morbid backgrounds use each other for cathartic exposition of their life stories...
Deep South? Hollywood? On to Colette's Cheri; more copyright problems, another misfire. Deciding that "you can't write opera unless it's you," he hit on Strindberg's play Miss Julie, whose morbid Freudian thickets "fitted me; I am fascinated with death." The Scandinavian setting, too, suited his Norwegian heritage, but he and Librettist Kenward Elmslie figured that the drama might have more impact if transformed into a love tragedy involving a Deep South heiress and her Negro servant. Timely and all that. Off to New Orleans they went to soak up some local color...
...Harvey. "The Russians haven't turned over everything to the U.S." about her son's stay in the Soviet Union, she said. "I thought that, being his mother, I might build up enough evidence to ask that this case be reopened." By some morbid twist, one Oswald letter from Russia expressing bitterness against the U.S. sold for $3,000 at the Manhattan autograph hawker's auction. Three letters from Jackie Kennedy to Actor Basil Rathbone went...
...babies, little girls six and eight years old sold to brothels, and quarterings by the thousands. The purpose of all this gore is to prove that the suffering and horror wrought upon China by the West forced the Chinese to go Communist in self-defense. Author Suyin lets her morbid imagination gallop away when she writes of such events as the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 by Japan and the Western powers: "Soldiers of France and England and Germany went about with open trousers to rape women, and spears to impale the babies. Militant missionaries boasted...