Word: spectral
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...flames lick out from the 81st floor, and punch holes--bam-bam-bam--in the fabric of the building as the pressure breaks open huge wounds in the glass skin of the building and huge windows pop in series. Later, as the fire becomes white hot, the spectral beauty of the scene increases, as down below the whole area becomes an abstract, pulsing mass of red fire lights, blue police lights, and white search beams...
...boxer who deserts her. Despite her aversion to blacks, Ella then marries Jim. However, the stress of social ostracism drives her insane, and she prays for Jim to flunk his bar exams, which he does. With his dream shattered, Jim reverts to a kind of devoted slave to a spectral child bride...
...after he died, and most of the survivors are about either masochism or hair fetishism or both. But he did produce one of the great sexual images of the 18th century with The Night mare (1781). The painting ought not to work. It is too literal, too obvious. Its spectral horse with Ping Pong ball eyes puffs and blows through a fold in the cur tain, and the goblin looks like an irri table Irish dwarf. It is, in fact, the kind of painting that seems merely an aggressive pantomime in a post-psychological culture like ours. Yet nearly...
...tires, long knives strapped to their thighs, drinking beer. Behind them lies the burnt-out hulk of the weekend's first sacrifice, an old sedan of indefinable lineage. Rising out into the bright night sky, thick acrid bellows of smoke reach for the high-scudding clouds. A spectral group of dancers passes by, cavorting to the raucous notes of a kazoo. Men and women are madly intertwined in their grimy jeans, holding out bottles of wine to balance their steps. Like shadows stretched across a brick wall, these forms stumble onward--players possessed by the harkening strains of Death...
...story is set in the bayous near Biloxi, not too far from Still's birthplace in Woodville, Miss. The young Cajun Bazile falls in love with the spectral Aurore, defying the Cajun stricture against consorting with spirits as evil and punishable by death. The amorous Clothilde, jealous of a love she cannot understand, betrays her beloved to the village priest. Bazile is hanged. At the moment of his death, Bazile's spirit is joined with that of Aurore...