Word: horror
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...Peopled with dyspeptic traders, white-suited missionaries and superstitious Samoan villagers, it blends mythical tales with sea stories, achieving a heightened realism that critiques the colonial experience. An earlier story completed before his travels is thought to have provided Joseph Conrad with his famous last words for Kurtz, "The horror! The horror!" and The Beach of Fales? is Stevenson's Heart of Darkness...
Could Hiroshima happen again? For 60 years the sense of power that goes with having a nuclear capability has been tempered by another emotion: naked fear of the horror that nuclear weapons can cause. From John Hersey's heartbreaking journalism for the New Yorker in 1946, through films, books and documentaries, the hell that was Hiroshima has helped persuade us to stay our hand...
...these difficulties are nothing compared to the ultimate horror-of-horrors in the business of managing people: being tactful...
...Serbia has finally begun to digest its ugly past. It hurts, and it's bound to make some people angry, but it will eventually end with some sort of closure. Not, of course, for the killers and their acomplices, but for the victims of Srebrenica and other places of horror, who will not find peace until the crimes are recognized as such by those in whose name they were committed...
...whether or not they knew his name, moviegoers saw Ingmar Bergman films. His influence was everywhere: in the look and some of the scenes of Monty Python and the Holy Grail (inspired by The Seventh Seal), in the horror film The Last House on the Left (a remake of The Virgin Spring) and any number of Woody Allen films, including Interiors (in the manner of Cries and Whispers). On Broadway, Stephen Sondheim transposed the domestic deceptions of Smiles of a Summer Night into A Little Night Music...