Word: nightmarish
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...THERE WERE such a thing as a death wish for albums, this one would have it--it is a record that fairly thumbs its nose at the Intelligent Rock Listener, inside and out. The cover art, for one thing, is nightmarish--bright red lettering, a black-and-white checkerboard pattern spelling out "Elvis is King," and Costello himself feering out from a lurid yellow background. He clutches a Fender menacingly, and leans forward in that half-aggressive pigeon-toed stance so dear to the hearts of '50s rockers; his eyes are genuinely loony, wild and dangerous-looking, behind huge Buddy...
Ditzler described the whole affair as "really unpleasant" and "nightmarish." "We were just too cocky going into it," she said, and added that "it was a humbling experience...
...until this autumn's thus far golden season, the goalkeeping job has assumed nightmarish proportions at times for Herold. During last year's 2-10-1 campaign, Fredo found himself operating behind a sometimes sieve-like defense--a situation that calls more for qualities of outlandishness, or craziness, than for steadiness...
...played tennis with Pancho Gonzales, boxed with Archie Moore and pitched to Willie Mays-all in the name of journalistic curiosity and publishable profit. "Ernest Hemingway once said that my daydreams were the dark side of the moon of Walter Mitty," says Plimpton, 50. "I agree. It's nightmarish, these sports. They are painful, not joyful." Plimpton's latest joyless endeavor is race-car driving. He is revving up a book about the track and plans to get the feel of the pit by competing in the Toyota Pro Celebrity Match Race in Watkins Glen...
...spreading fear drastically altered New York's uninhibited courting habits and added a new travail to an already painful summer in Job City. The metropolis, which is still only a few legalistic steps ahead of fiscal insolvency, has suffered through a nightmarish blackout and looting, a bloody bus hijacking and last week two bombings by Puerto Rican independence terrorists. One man was killed and seven people injured, while other bomb scares over two days forced the evacuation of more than 100,000 workers from their buildings...