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...people read that stuff? Why do they go to those movies? Because you are just as sick as I am!" horror novelist Stephen King shouted last night to an audience of 500 at the Graduate School of Design...

Author: By Carolyn J. Sporn, | Title: King Discusses Horror Genre | 2/28/1989 | See Source »

...writer of Kujo, Carrie, Misery, Christine, Pet Cemetary and many other grisly tales of horror, told Harvard students and faculty how he develops ideas for his stories. King was invited to speak at Harvard on behalf by the Expository Writing Program...

Author: By Carolyn J. Sporn, | Title: King Discusses Horror Genre | 2/28/1989 | See Source »

...their North Belfast home, when three men slipped in through the unlocked front door. One of the intruders, wielding an automatic, opened fire on Finucane, instantly killing the 38-year-old Catholic lawyer. His wife, who was wounded in the ankle, and three children watched the bloody scene in horror as the gang escaped in a commandeered taxi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Northern Ireland: Caught in the Cross Hair | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

...been a week of horror for the Crimson. Not only did Harvard drop its first Ivy League game to Brown, 82-74, last Saturday, but the Crimson faltered in the first half of its game against the University of Massachusetts last Tuesday and suffered a 70-67 loss...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Is Anybody Home? | 2/17/1989 | See Source »

Warhol's power, uneven as it was, lay in an emotional narrative that contradicted its cold, fixed, iconic surface. He unskeined a story in which a horror of the world, verging sometimes on acute dread, mingled with an artificial calm and a desire for transcendence. Try as one may, one cannot imagine Gold Marilyn Monroe, 1962, being painted by anyone but a Roman Catholic homosexual; it is both completely camp in its pseudo-Byzantine extravagance and, in its identification of the star with the Madonna, yearningly devotional. Here, Warhol is Genet in paint. So too with the "disasters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Best And Worst Of Warhol | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

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