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The piece details the nightmarish conditions under which children in these borderline institutions live.
Unity's piercingly innocent gray eyes contrast with the nightmarish black holes that substitute for the dolls'.
A maze of alleys crammed with stalls, Qingping offers up acres of herbs, spices, jade, antiques, memorabilia, goldfish, songbirds, and a sometimes nightmarish display of live animals destined for the kitchen, including dogs, cats, and rare species.
It's true that he's drawn to machinery, but his favorite devices are typewriters and accordions and siphons--nonthreatening mechanisms that lack the depersonalizing, menacing quality of, say, Fritz Lang's nightmarish film Metropolis . Although Léger was a Communist, with pronounced sympathy for the working man, his experience of factory conditions apparently was limited to what he'd heard from his fellow card-playing soldiers.
To the south of town on the Gianyar road is Pura Dalem Penuggekan, a typical example of the many temples for the dead: Carved friezes show the nightmarish tortures awaiting sinners in the after-life.