Word: horror
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...Ridge has the most important job in America: to make sure that the horror of Sept. 11 never happens again. Now, in addition to the former Pennsylvania Governor, George W. Bush wants retired General Wayne Downing, a dashing commando, to join his new team as a top counterterrorism aide. But in the three weeks since Bush tapped Ridge to head his new Office of Homeland Security, the unified front against terrorism has started to develop some cracks...
...only story," he says, and asks for his prescription for Haldol, an anti-psychotic medication. A man with an almost crippling fear of leaving his apartment comes to his appointment. He is reorganizing his closets, "to do something normal." My ten-year-old patient recites the plot of every horror movie she has ever seen, complete with severed body parts. She acts out a puppet show in which scary monsters eat her, and then me. She wonders if kids can get drafted. My gentle Buddhist patient from China comes, sits quietly, says, "I never in my life heard of such...
Kiss Me, Kate, which had posted a closing notice, literally tore up that notice at its scheduled last performance and has played thereafter to large houses. Two shows that shuttered following the attack, the Rocky Horror Show, and off-Broadway’s Bat Boy, will resurface later this month. And one of the only two planned shows that was canceled, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s By Jeeves, found sufficient financial support to rescind its cancellation and will come to New York after...
...course, these images of destruction and horror are particular striking in light of the events of September 11th. In fact, the MFA notes as much in a pop-up message on their webpage. The message in the box reads, "Art can play a significant role in our lives even in the most difficult times....Since the tragic events of September 11th, these works of art have assumed a new relevance, and some of our visitors may find them particularly disturbing. We hope that this exhibition will provide a forum for reflection and discussion...
...this valuation of the visual over the literary is more than just an aesthetic philosophy, but rather also reflects Ristelhueber's philosophy of history. Ristelheuber seems to have a radically descriptive and almost impartial outlook on the horror that characterizes human conflict. That is not to say that Ristelhueber in any condones or looks favorably upon the disturbing images in her photographs--it is perhaps quite the contrary--but that she looks upon human conflict as inevitablethat history rolls forward in all too similar cycles, characterized by paroxysms of violence at every turn...