Spirit of the Dead Watching her fear. Mathews says it is too simple to attribute Tehura's terror to her belief in spirits and irrational fear of the dark; she says, following Sweetman, that Gauguin's sexual predilections should not be ignored when trying to understand the work. Rather, she suggests the girl's fear was a response to Gauguin's aggressive behavior, consistent with his known battering (so says Mathews) of his wife Mette, the submissive fear in her eyes his erotic reward. Stephen F. Eisenman, professor of Art History at Northwestern University, suggests the painting and its narrative is "a veritable encyclopaedia of colonial racism and misogyny".
The Web of Fear on 24 February 2014. The Web of Fear The Web of Fear is the partly missing fifth serial of the fifth season of the British science fiction television series "Doctor Who", which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from 3 February to 9 March 1968. The serial is set on the London Underground railway over forty years after the 1967 serial "The Abominable Snowmen". In the serial, the incorporeal Great Intelligence leads the time traveller the Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton) into a trap where it can drain the Doctor's mind of all of his knowledge. "The Web of Fear"