My informant sketched a complete, gruesome picture.
Bridget Christie did an impression of Louise Mensch in a gruesome mask and stormtrooper helmet.
Early on, Arbus often generates this impression circumstantially, by seeking out unsettling things: morgue autopsies, gruesome murder tableaus in wax museums, horror movie scenes that she shoots in theaters.
It also gives mom and dad more time to be used to handling their new baby, which gives you lots of excuses to ask about the caring process rather than the birth itself (details of which can be really gruesome to have to listen to and risk coloring your impressions of the baby negatively).
Perhaps that kind of stereotype is not as gruesome or upsetting as the one in the original "Fantasia," but I had the distinct impression, as my son laughed at the scene, that my Italian immigrant grandfather was turning over in his grave.
Today, on first impression, you'd never know that Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia, had just surfaced from a long, gruesome war that decimated its economy and destroyed tourism.
