Word: horror
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...kids got it: they picked up on Elvis' sexuality, his vitality and fun. Adults thought kids picked up an infection too. The same cultural paranoia that had parents burning horror comic books in 1954 had them calling for a TV ban on Elvis the Pelvis, and Presley was obliged to tone down his moves when, on "The Steve Allen Show," he sang "Hound Dog" in a tuxedo to an actual hound dog (in a tuxedo). In a revealing press comment in Charleston, S.C., the week before the Allen show, Elvis put his music and his performance style into cultural contest...
...like watching TV, going to the movies or hanging out in the Starbucks parking lot lose their novelty after only a few days. High school gossip, while always good for a few laughs, is still high school gossip. And anything is safer than a moment to reflect on the horror we left behind...
...away" is easier said than done. Ask the Israelis who arrived at the Paradise Hotel in Mombasa just as bombs exploded there, killing three of them, or the passengers on the charter flight from Mombasa to Tel Aviv who barely escaped death by surface-to-air missile. Following the horror of the Bali bombings in October, the attacks in Kenya confirm that tourists are now in the terrorists' cross hairs. Soft targets, that euphemism of the month, seem to be softest when they're wearing shorts or sinking a few brews...
...gore, solidified in bronze streams, is one of the most (literally) bloodcurdling images in all Renaissance art, and the little study for her head, also by Cellini, is a thing of singular melancholy beauty and, so to speak, inwardness. It is a thinking head, not at all the horror-show mask that most Renaissance gorgons were made...
...extensively described by professional historians. Yet the suffering of those who experienced the bombing has largely been relegated to fireside tales, memoirs, and fictional accounts. A new book by Berlin historian Jörg Friedrich, Der Brand (The Conflagration, Propyläen; 592 pages) now brings to life the horror of those nights when British and American fighter planes dropped half a million bombs on some 1,000 towns and cities, killing 635,000 people. "I wanted to show what happens when the bomb hits the ground," Friedrich told Time about his collage of eyewitness and later reports. "Not what...