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...elements necessary for a topping midsummer titillation. It included charges of illicit sex, payoffs, skulduggery in high political places and a celebrity plaintiff. Small wonder, then, that hardly a seat was vacant during the 14 days of testimony and summation in the libel suit brought against the Star, a lurid London tabloid, by best-selling Novelist (First Among Equals, Kane and Abel) and former Conservative Party Deputy Chairman Jeffrey Archer. The charge: that the Star falsely claimed that Archer had purchased the services of a London prostitute. Last week the jury of eight men and four women wrote a happy...
...turns angry, bewildered and curious, an anxious crowd descended on the Jefferson Square Theater in Columbia, S.C., last week. Their aim: to play a role in the next installment of a long-running American serial of sex, cash and power -- a show resembling some lurid made-for-TV mini-series that might be called God and Money. For six hours, harassed officials of the embattled PTL (for Praise the Lord or People That Love) ministry were confronted at a public bankruptcy hearing by members of the flock that had supported the $203 million religious empire created by its ousted leaders...
...adulterers are not the same, whatever Dante's lurid punishments by the appropriate circle of hell. A sinner is not only his sin, but many other things. Strength and weakness coexist. People struggle on through complex weather...
...circumstantial evidence of Kennedy's sexual adventures during his White House years was abundant, possibly innocent acts inflated by Kennedy's lurid reputation. On Inauguration night, just after Jackie had gone home alone (she was still recovering from the difficult birth of John Jr.), a reporter peered through the potted palms behind the stage and saw Actresses Kim Novak and Angie Dickinson joining the President's small coterie. At a Palm Beach, Fla., mansion following Kennedy's summit with Nikita Khrushchev in 1961, the President dined with an old school chum, an acquaintance and two attractive young ladies. The acquaintance...
More than 200 guests trooped up the flight of unmarked stairs in a bland Paris office building last week to view a show billed as an "Exhibition of Horrors." The photographs lining the stucco walls were a lurid selection from sex magazines available in France, ranging from the French edition of Penthouse to bondage magazines like Crime and Punishment to publications featuring lesbianism, bestiality and pedophilia...