Word: ghoulishly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other crash scenes have been more ghoulish. After 137 people died in the Aug. 2, 1985, crash of a Delta L-1011 at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport, legions of lawyers sought business amid the chaos, scurrying among emergency- relief workers and hospital aides. They even tramped through the halls of Parkland Memorial Hospital handing out name cards to the families of the deceased. Top lawyers in the field, who get their cases mainly through referrals, consider such tactics lowbrow. "I have utter contempt for those who choose to get cases this way. They deserve the bad reputation they have...
...with tentacle-like branches sprouting from its top, recall a fascination with the grotesque that characterized some Japanese avant-garde art of the 1950s and early '60s. Its inspiration: Japan's bombed-out landscape after World War II. Strains of this extreme aesthetic are still visible today in the ghoulish makeup and gestures of butoh dancers. Similarly, Shoko Maemoto creates souvenirs from a nightmare alley where fairy- tale fantasy meets a haunting eroticism. Meticulously executed, her work has a grisly elegance, as in Silent Explosion, 1988, a mannequin-less burlap hoopskirt from which a torrent of "blood" cascades, blazing...
...covered. "We have a commercial interest in catastrophe," admits Milwaukee Journal editor Sig Gissler. The most realistic changes that can be hoped for, agreed the journalists, are slight improvements in tone and treatment. Said Newsday columnist Sydney Schanberg: "If we see only five seconds instead of 30 seconds of ghoulish film, we've made progress...
That such an ostensibly upstanding citizen would rape and mutilate scores of women, then dump their bodies in remote places, was almost beyond comprehension. The morning of the execution, some 200 bloodthirsty revelers gathered outside the penitentiary in Starke, Fla., for a ghoulish celebration. They lit sparklers, cheered and waved signs reading BURN, BUNDY, BURN and ROAST IN PEACE. One of the few dissenters was college student Nanda Rogers, 22, of Orlando, who stood by herself a few yards away. "I believe in the sanctity of human life -- even Ted Bundy's life," she said somberly...
Reader, beware. This article is rated PG: Pretty Ghoulish. Or, as Bette Davis' recorded voice advises at the beginning of each Grave Line Tour, "Fasten your seat belts. It's going to be a bumpy night...