Word: nightmarish
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Sparklehorse is weirder than dreams. Best known for his songs wrought with fragile creepiness, laden with nightmarish imagery and whispered ambiguities, Mark Linkous—the man behind the Sparklehorse curtain—can haunt with the best of them. In this sense, Sparklehorse’s latest album, “Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain” is more of the same—and, after a five-year hiatus, discovering more of the same was more than I could’ve asked for.Linkous’s drug problems?...
...very personal way, Bobby's diary conveys a sense of the nightmarish conditions that are the daily life for American soldiers. Bobby is unstinting in his praise and admiration for the courage and integrity of the American servicemen and -women in Iraq. He is well aware of the risks they are taking on a daily basis. But I believe that journalists like Bobby, with their candid reporting from the war zone, are upholding the values that our soldiers take an oath to protect: our freedom to think and believe and to act on those thoughts and beliefs. "Whenever the people...
...pages; $20) can be read in less than hour, thanks to its page-turning true tale of life and death during the Nazi occupation of Hungary. Still, the return on such a short investment of time is an unforgettable tale of a mother's courage in the face of nightmarish cruelty. Along the way, it explores the precarious nature of religious faith, which for some can be stretched too thin for suspension...
...Wanna Kiss Me?”; Eugene M. Plotkin ’00 was indicted for a $6.2 million insider trading fiasco at Goldman Sachs.These scandals, and the Faculty of Arts & Sciences’ ousting of President Lawrence H. Summers, have made 2006 a nightmarish year for Harvard’s public relations. Yet, inevitably, 20,000 over-achieving high school seniors will try to climb into our Ivy Tower next winter, U.S. World & News Report’s ritual crowning of Harvard will stabilize our jolted foundations, and most of our graduating class will exit Johnston Gate with promising...
...Walls has just been made into a musical that opened in Glasgow last month and transferred to London's Lyric Theatre for two weeks before going on tour in Scotland next month and England this fall. Gaiman explains to his young fans that the book was inspired by a nightmarish fantasy his daughter Maddy once had. The children are rigorous cross-examiners. "But from where exactly in her bedroom did the wolves appear?" a skeptical 8-year-old girl wants to know. Gaiman answers with not a moment's hesitation: "A foot above her head and a little...