Word: horror
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...immediate and perplexing question: Is Enya supposed to be goth now? Maybe it’s just her jet-black dye job, ghostly pale complexion, and blood-red sateen dress throwing me off, but I swear I saw her queued for the midnight screening of “Rocky Horror Picture Show” last Friday. Or maybe that was her stocking up on pancake face powder at Hot Topic.Unfortunately, all of this posturing hasn’t improved her music. She’s still peddling the same coma-inducing New Age white noise your mom and Peter Jackson...
...feet--and shares his grandpa's secret of longevity: Never fall asleep in a shoe. He talks about his unlikely friendship with Fly, whose forebears used to be the enemies of spiders. "Things are different now," says Spider, although Fly sometimes accidentally gets stuck in his web, to the horror of Fly's mother. Worm, his other best friend and fellow diarist, makes amusing cameo appearances. On sleepovers at Worm's house, Spider is revolted by the leaves and rotten tomatoes served for dinner. Conversely, Worm is disgusted when Spider molts. Spider, much like his young readers, is a little...
...their narrative outrages, their graphic ingenuity; saved them in meticulous stacks or mold-resistant wrappers. Then he hears his mother say she was cleaning up the basement and "I threw that junk out." Junk! the child cries. Those yellowing pages of newsprint, those copies of Mad and Vault of Horror and Weird Science were my obsession, my vocation, my youth...
...play in “Rent” is fundamentally different from the picturesque poverty that “Rent”’s main characters experience.“Rent” isn’t just about poverty. It’s also about the horror of living with AIDS in the early 1990s. On this topic, “Rent” both succeeds and fails. On one hand, “Rent” may have succeeded in reducing some of the stigma associated with the disease. Students may find it difficult to understand...
...being tortured, raped and killed. I could have laid out the problem calmly and directly in a nonfiction book, but that would have been what Americans call 'a bummer.' So I chose fiction. And comedy. Sometimes only the subversiveness of comedy can do justice to the extremes of horror." Especially in the hands of a writer who knows the value of life...