Word: nightmarish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that sort of daring was exactly what the Royal Danish Ballet was looking for. Typical of the new look he has given the Danes is his flashy new production of Bartok's nightmarish The Miraculous Mandarin, which has been running in Copenhagen for the past few weeks. A series of taut opening scenes, ominously underscored by Bartok's crashing, nervous music, sets the sordid story: a leering, undulating streetwalker lures her men to a shadowy room where a trio of gangsters beat and rob them. The last victim is a hideously ugly, stooped Chinese mandarin, danced by Flindt...
...VIDA, by Oscar Lewis. A nightmarish picture of poverty among Puerto Ricans in San Juan's La Esmeralda and New York City's Spanish Harlem-painted largely by the subjects themselves with the assistance of Anthropologist Lewis' ubiquitous tape recorder...
Last summer's macabre mass murders in Chicago and Austin seemed irresistibly fascinating to Robert Benjamin Smith, 18, studious, reticent high school senior in Mesa, Ariz. (pop. 50,000). Three months ago, Bob Smith began to concoct his own nightmarish schemes for multiple murder. After toying with several other likely sites, he settled on the Rose-Mar College of Beauty, a mile and a half from his home, because of the number of potential victims-student beauticians and housewife customers-to be found there...
...nightmarish visions of a rapidly disintegrating mind? Not at all. These are happenings in Greenwich Village as reported by the eleven-year-old weekly Village Voice. Few Village fancies escape the attention of the Voice. No Village fad-from psychedelic shopping centers to erotic Christmas ornaments-is too eccentric to be ignored. As a result, the weekly has begun to show a modest profit. Its circulation has reached 56,000. Now that it has embarked on its first promotion drive, it expects to reach 75,000 by next spring...
Even if sharing the Stadium would not change the face of Harvard sports, it would create more trouble than it is worth. The parking problem, for example, would be nightmarish...