Word: lurid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spines, and dies of an overdose. In a strangely gripping passage, Mathews describes a heaven from which God has been banished. Its inhabitants run things as they did on earth; the rich and powerful are welcomed, the poor and weak are persecuted. Mathews deftly turns everyday life into a lurid nightmare. His symbolism is brilliant in fragments, but it spreads through the novel like crab grass and tends to choke the narrative...
...peccadilloes throw a lurid light on Hollywood's supercolossal, cast-of-thousands inefficiency. Marlon Brando has already taken more than $1,000,000 in salary from the Mutiny on the Bounty production, conducting mutinies of his own that helped drive production costs beyond $20 million. Films exist at the whim of their stars. Marilyn Monroe's various illnesses have kept her away from Fox's Something's Got to Give; says Di rector Billy Wilder, who knows her from the anguished days of Some Like It Hot: "It used to be you'd call...
...series of Lenten sermons, Wyszynski sharply criticized the regime in two at tacks on state-sponsored atheism, a third on birth control and the Polish system of legal abortion. For good measure, he condemned the party-controlled press for "throwing mud at our priests'" by publishing the lurid "confessions" of unfrocked clerics...
...lurid press aftermath of big British criminal cases is a direct result of the country's stringent laws governing coverage of crime. Although a trial can be reported in full, any paper that goes beyond the testimony-even to describe the mien of the magistrate on the bench-risks heavy fines and severe punishment. Behind such enforced discipline accumulates the enormous urge of a newspaper to tell the whole story-as well as an enormous public urge to hear it. Then the checkbooks come...
...current New York production has, like most things of lasting value, elicited mixed reviews initially. Howard Taubman of the Times found the play "funny, weird, stageworthy and nonsensical.... If you don't insist on a full measure of sense, Mr. Kopit has a fanciful, droll, lurid way with the theatre." In his follow-up Sunday piece Taubman voiced some reservations about the script, such as that it "has its share of irrelevancies that fall into no pattern of communication," but he concluded that Kopit "may become an important playwright...