Though but one of the many hundreds of police killings that occur each year, the chilling death of Eric Garner warrants special attention, for it illuminates both the dynamics of impunity and the public's reluctance to punish the police.
One of the "fragmentary jottings" in the last chapter of "Mortality" is a brush stroke on Philip Larkin's chilling death poem, "Aubade": "Larkin good on fear in 'Aubade,' with implied reproof to Hume and Lucretius for their stoicism.
Some of the paintings on display at White Cube sustain this working method by setting a clump of thorn bushes before an ashy grey winterscape that speaks (much less ponderously than this makes it sound) of chill death and resurrection.
"The Japanese authorities' willingness to put people to death is chilling and must end now before more lives are lost," Roseann Rife, East Asia research director for Amnesty, said in a statement.
But that's not the only part of the work's design that suggests the gradual, chilling sweep of death through this little community of dancers.
But there was solemnity as well, as chilling images of death in Iraq cast shadows over the day's proceedings, and churchgoers and spiritual leaders alike spoke of the horrors of war, fears of terrorist attacks and other concerns.
From the "spine-chilling death shrieks" in Finntroll to the black metal rasps of Skyforger or Moonsorrow, there is no shortage of extreme vocals in folk metal.
In the TNT movie "Never Forget," premiering Monday night, Leonard Nimoy plays Mel Mermelstein, a modest, middle-class family man who maintains a homemade Holocaust exhibit, stocked with chilling photos and death-camp artifacts, on the edge of his lumberyard in Huntington Beach.
The program began with blues ancestors: an African song from Angelique Kidjo and a chilling, death-haunted spiritual from Mavis Staples.
Her avid expectancy as Nikiya dances to her death is chilling, as is her gloating, vampiric claiming of Solor (Vadim Muntagirov, on noble form) thereafter.
These ballets included "Symphonie Concertante," "Symphony in C," "Bourree Fantasque," "Western Symphony" and "La Valse," in which her doomed heroine danced herself to death with chilling fervor.
