For a stretch, Mr. Armstrong played recordings of live sessions from the show, including ones by Nas and Ol' Dirty Bastard, followed by a sinister 1995 appearance by Jay-Z and Big L — the recording features Mr. Garcia's laughing ad- libs — that received one of the night's biggest responses.
Which made it worthy of inclusion in the pantheon of clunkers that my father had owned: a sinister black 1948 Mercury sedan, a used '54 DeSoto convertible with the transmission that caught fire and a '63 Dodge Dart with turquoise, grease-absorbing upholstery.
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Even his alias comes from a sinister source the 1922 silent film Häxan, which is about witchcraft and demonic possession.
Thompson subsequently returned to acting, appearing in such movies as Secretariat (2010), an inspirational drama about the champion racehorse, and Sinister (2012), a horror film.
Derrickson is best known for his work in the horror genre, where he has proved adept at making the most of modest budgets: He directed and co-wrote "The Exorcism of Emily Rose" (2005), which grossed $75 million domestically on a $19-million 19-milliond also wrote and directed "Sinister" (2012), which grossed $48 million on a $3-million budget.
Coming upon Francis Bacon's rather sinister 1953 "Study of a Baboon" shortly after Matisse's "Piano Lesson" clarified for me that I have always found the Matisse a little scary.
I opted, finally, for the shorter of Nabokov's two great defences of the free individual against the state, Invitation to a Beheading (1935), older sibling of Bend Sinister (1947).
With its playful games about identity and its framing of stories within a story "Mister Morn" presages aspects of Nabokov's tricky 1962 novel "Pale Fire," much the way its examination of the dynamic between the personal and the political serves as a kind of harbinger of issues in "Bend Sinister" (1947).
His second, "The Mad Cook of Pymatuning" (2005), was a sinister take on a 1950s boys' summer camp gone chillingly awry, with undertones of "Lord of the Flies," William Golding's 1954 novel about British boys stranded on an island and their disastrous attempts to govern themselves.
