Word: lurid
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...production studios on all cameras, so that there are as many transmission-tone variations as there are color girls. Often, as Huntley and Brinkley report, the audience just gets Chet tinted correctly (healthy suntan, hazel-brown eyes) when the producer cuts to David, who comes in as a lurid lavender. By the time Brinkley is attuned (pale pink skin, blue eyes), there is a switch to a remote Frank McGee looking sickly green at Cape Kennedy. Similarly, every break for a commercial or shift to another channel could require a readjustment. Given the errant ways of all flesh, a listener...
...long-awaited Candy Mossier murder trial began here Monday," wrote the Chicago Daily News correspondent in Miami, "and it gives every sign of being one of the most lurid and bloodstained among latter-day criminal cases. Whichever way the murder trial goes, it is all mixed up with big money and wheeler-dealerism." Added the Houston Chronicle's man in Miami: "Woven through the fabric of the case are the threads of love, hate, greed, savage passion, intrigue, incest and perversion...
Author Auchincloss traverses this somewhat lurid ground with his customary cool style. A writer annealed by the disciplines of the law, which he still practices in Manhattan, he is incapable of setting an uncertain, unseemly or ungraceful foot. His narrative, his paragraphs and his sentences flow with smooth inevitability...
...witty duels between Beatrice and Benedick, played here by two fast-rising British stars, Maggie Smith and Robert Stephens, whose voices are whirling kaleidoscopes. That young theatrical iconoclast, Franco Zeffirelli (creator of a successful beatnik Hamlet), directed this National Theater of Britain production, which one critic called as lurid and animated as a Superman comic. The performance on the recording is robust but never bumptious...
...Forsaken Star has been serialized in newspapers. Work began last week on a movie based on the book, and a television series is planned. But Koreans seem to savor the book more for its lurid details of commercial love than for the insights it gives into the plight of half-castes...