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...Line,” is markedly darker, focusing lyrically as well as visually on human weakness. The opening scenes transport the viewer to a hazy pastoral setting, engulfed in gray mist. A figure comes riding in: half pig, half man; he’s a repulsive amalgamation, a nightmarish figure. Nevertheless, we feel pity as he goes about his solitary life. Engulfed for mysterious reasons by worry, boredom, and heartbreak (a past love is hinted at as he traces the word “Ella” on the frosty windows), his pain is palpable. As the song reaches...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: José González | 10/5/2007 | See Source »

...latest Defense Against the Dark Arts professor. When the camera lingers on her spoon dipping into a pot of faintly pink sugar, the sweet stuff has never looked more deadly. Rupert Grint also makes his best showing to date as Ron Weasley, and Helena Bonham Carter is electric and nightmarish as Azkaban-escapee Bellatrix Lestrange...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | 7/13/2007 | See Source »

...often that a single Senate subcommittee hearing puts on the table a half-dozen nightmarish scenarios that hardly anyone in Washington is worrying about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Nuclear Nightmare | 4/21/2007 | See Source »

...Orthodox patriarchate has been located in this city, formerly known as Constantinople, since the fourth century. Despite pressure from the European Union, the Turkish government argues that opening the Halki school would put it under pressure to allow similar Islamic colleges - a prospect deemed nightmarish by the secularist authorities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope's Push to Protect Minority Christians in the Muslim World | 11/29/2006 | See Source »

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?...

Author: By Henry M. Cowles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CD Review: Sparklehorse, "Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain" | 10/5/2006 | See Source »

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