Word: nightmarish
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...modes of conveying his thoughts ... he was a monster . . . His women are all strumpets, and his men all banditti, with the action of galvanized frogs, the dress of mountebanks, and the hue of pestilential putridity . . ." There is something terrifyingly timely in Fuseli's nightmarish mysticism. In some ways, Fuseli bridges the gap between the 18th and the 20th centuries; his shrieks and murmurs carry across the Victorian era (which merely stopped its ears) to the present. In several paintings and drawings all called The Nightmare-whose principal characters are variously a monstrous dwarf, a leering horse and a recumbent...
...named in the press because her husband might still be alive and in Communist hands, told the committee that soon after the Russians marched into Lithuania they began shipping men, women and children to Siberia by the carload. Separated from her husband, she spent 17 hungry, nightmarish days traveling eastward in a cattle car packed with 40-odd deportees, 15 of them infants. In Siberia she lived in a crude barracks, worked twelve hours a day in a construction gang...
...newsmen in the fountain-echoing garden of Saadabad Palace and spoke some brutal truths: "The treasury is empty. We need help in the next few days. We do not ask any nation in particular, and we are not beggars, but if help does not come, we will have a nightmarish struggle." In the streets, Americans who had recently been greeted with cries of "Americans, go home," now found themselves welcomed happily by Iranians who let them know that the Iranians had done all of this for them and now counted on help from...
Everything pointed to success. Kafka's nightmarish book, first published in 1925, is enjoying a vogue among intellectuals; it tells about a kind of tragic Sad Sack-an ordinary man named Joseph K. who is arrested, tried by a mysterious court for an unspecified crime, chivied by a cold, incomprehensible bureaucracy until he is finally led away by two black-clad agents and stabbed to death. This macabre theme of man tortured by forces he does not understand was successfully used by Alban Berg in Wozzeck and by Gian-Carlo Menotti in his more popular Consul. Salzburg first-nighters...
...sale at U.S. pop-record counters last week was a ten-inch number with an attached red sticker of warning: "The enclosed record is HORRIBLE." The label was an understatement. The tunes (Fish and There's a New Sound) offer some of the most nightmarish vocals of modern times to the accompaniment of an asthmatic calliope. Sample lyric...