Word: horror
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Americans remember World War II as "the good war," the one fought with stoic heroism by "the greatest generation." For Europeans, it is a scar that won't stop itching, a remembrance of pain and disgrace. Even for those people whose nations were on the winning side, sadness and horror intrude into memories of glory. Novelists can capture the mixed emotions that go with war better than historians. It's no accident that Ian McEwan's Atonement--perhaps the most admired British novel of the past decade--has at its center the retreat of British forces to Dunkirk, a story...
...only has music in her heart. The affair does not end happily. Indeed, few of Rhodes' tales have conventionally happy endings. For example, in one of Timoleon Vieta's romantic detours, we read of the deaf and diligent daughter Aurora, who falls hard for a local hoodlum, to the horror of her whole family. All, that is, except for the canny grandmother, who tells Aurora she is doomed to act out one of the oldest stories in the book; the one where the bad boy makes good, the couple settles into domestic bliss and she forgets her dream of becoming...
...nasty rumor was circulating in the lobby held that Turkey was demanding the honoring of a 1920s treaty with Britain, which guaranteed it a share of Iraq's northern oilfields. This elicited a look of plain horror from the Turkish official...
...delightfully goofball one-shot about an animate doll's head that gets called upon to save the world. It was nominated for best humor publication. In a completely different vein, Junji Ito's "Uzumaki," an English-translated series of fat Japanese manga books, is a really interesting horror comic about a town whose residents suddenly discover their lives are plagued by spiral shapes. Their bodies twist into snail shells and those who try to leave get returned back again. On the more serious side it was a great pleasure to find Madison Clell's "Cuckoo," an intense graphic album that...
...helped me a lot,” she says. “I used to be the shiest person in the world. At Rocky Horror, you’re with people who are just as shy as you are. It’s really therapeutic...