Word: morbids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...funeral was one of the most largely attended we had ever conducted. But the turn-out did not mislead me. The dramatic manner of the youngsters' going and the way the press played it up brought out a horde of morbid curiosity-seekers none of whom knew either Alice or Eric by sight in life...
...seems at times, looking at Mississippi's actions, as if there is a morbid wish to force the Federal government again to send troops to that state," he said...
Suicide in closeup is not something every moviegoer will want to see. But for those susceptible to such morbid fascinations, The Fire will burn with infernal allure. It will also be cheered by connoisseurs of cinema as a redoubt able tour de technique, the most considerable accomplishment of France's Louis Malle (The Lovers). But to many others the film will surely seem more lecture than picture...
ASSASSINATION has never been an instrument of politics in the U.S.: no plot to seize power, no palace intrigue, has ever cost an American President his life. The three assassins whose bullets killed Presidents Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley were lonely psychopaths, adrift from reason in a morbid fascination with the place history gives those who reverse its orderly progress. Each sought an hour of mad glory-and each died convinced that history would understand...
Luther, by John Osborne. Every age paints the portrait of past genius in its own image. The convention of the 20th century is that a genius must be tortured. He must be physically or psychologically ill, agonizingly unsure of himself, seething with inner violence, driven by morbid fears and furies, restless beyond a dream of peace, a man who draws his breath in pain and his inspiration from despair. If he is a hero, it is in spite of his weaknesses, not because of his strengths. If this hero is a religious genius, he must display an absolute conviction...