Word: horror
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...thought of the reporting devoted to the two subjects: Gourevitch's book ranks among the best examples of the journalism of moral witness. It speaks with an austerity enforced by the mystery and horror of the genocide...
...psychology, exploring the mind of Morrison's steel-willed protagonist Sethe (Oprah Winfrey), a former slave who now lives as a free woman in Ohio in the 1870s. Sethe is a strong woman of fierce determination but she is haunted, both literally and figuratively, by the pain and horror of her scarred past in bondage. On the outside, Sethe is a pillar of strength and stability, but her soul is reflected by the web of scars that snake up her back like some grotesque tree...
...that a psychopath has decided to turn urban legends into reality. Her friends are predictably skeptical and go on to die in ways corresponding to how nasty they have been. There, the plot: now you don't have to see it. Maybe, you say, "Given that its is a horror film, I really would like to see a bit of mild violence and creative forms of slaughter." I'll tell you. There's a drive-by hanging, an in-bed strangulation, an over-the-radio death chase. Now you don't need to see this. Or do you? Phua...
...junior year of high school, in United States History, we learned about voting patterns in our dear country. I sat wide-eyed in disbelief-nobody voted, nobody cared, propositions and presidents were put in place by a measly proportion of the population. The horror, the horror...
...history but as a kind of roll call of individual tragedy in which, as chattel, "you died with no salvation and no honor in your spirit." She argues that painting slavery with a broad brush in literature, film and even political debate has kept us from knowing the real horror and heroism of the institution. "We got it all wrong," she says. "For years we've talked about the physicality of slavery--who did what and who invented that. But the real legacy lies in the strength and courage to survive...