Next to a photo of one of Mr. Crawford's crumpled, hand-addressed envelopes, an editor noted, "Shaggy has indeed been mailing us letters for at least a decade now, and they are always funny, mean, disturbing and good".
The result is dense, spare, and soulful; it's soothing yet vaguely disturbing, like a good romance.
He calls Tenth of December, his new collection, "my least disturbing book" – a good indication of the slant of his work.
Do not laugh at something painful, but something meant to be funny and slightly disturbing is a good thing to laugh at.
What makes the film disturbing isn't just how good (and bad) the actors are at lying, at pantomiming, say, delight when they swallow yet another nauseating-looking chocolate for the camera.
"The judge conveyed a disturbing disregard for the good intentions of our officers, who form the most diverse police department in the US," he said during a press conference Monday.
But something infinitely more cool, and sort of disturbing (but in a good way) was in store.
At a news conference, Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly blasted the ruling, saying the judge ignored historic crime lows and displayed a "disturbing disregard" for the "good intentions" of police officers who do not racially profile.
Concerning acceptability, it was in general very good, no disturbing questions, few confusing items, very low percentage of missing data for items and scales, and the duration of administration of the questionnaire is short [ 14, 15].
Ananth Krishnan, another review from The Hindu, a month after the film's release, said that the film "... presents an effective diagnosis of entrenched corruption but the rather disturbing remedy it offers is, good old vigilantism".
