Word: luridity
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...accused by 11-year-old D.E.--the state's chief witness, who just happens to be the foster daughter of Wenatchee's sole sex-crimes investigator, Robert Perez--of myriad acts of child abuse, allegedly carried out not in furtive encounters but in bizarre sex parties at their church. Lurid reports describe orgies and ritual sacrifice on the altar, with Roberson and his congregation of perverts shouting "Hallelujah!" after what D.E. calls "the wild thing...
Other paintings in the exhibit showed a similar lack of community. Hotel rooms and trains, one person in each, dominate Hopper's landscape; gray office buildings and solitary Cape Cod houses illuminated by eerie winter light are de rigeur. His colors are often lurid, with chartreuse green on a living room wall where the floral wallpaper should be, and his subjects' eyes are often mere black dots...
...defining trial of the 1990s. The Simpson case offhand seems an unbeatably lurid end-of-the-millennium American omnium-gatherum of race (the nation's oldest, most durable inflammation of the psyche), sex, celebrity, media hype, justice and injustice . A perfect demonstration of how the American tendency to moralize has gone into partnership with the American appetite for trash-the superego and the id so nicely morphed that they are indistinguishable...
...Bergman's film, Johan Borg (Max von Sydow) and his companion of seven years Alma (Liv Ullman) have retreated from exuberant society to a remote island off the coast of Sweden. Johan pretends a lurid affair drove him here years ago, but his diary, the centerpiece of the tale, reveals that his passion was never required. Already descending through a gate of illusion into utter madness, Johan finally snaps when Alma discovers his secret...
Malone a treacherous negotiator? Don't be silly, he says. Equally ridiculous, he adds, is the idea that he plans to make trouble for Levin down the road--even, as some lurid scenarists would have it, helping Ted Turner move against Levin to wrest control of the company. "I know Ted very well," Malone says. "His life-style is such that he doesn't want to be in there running anything. Jerry is king. We're giving him the power to be a really strong CEO." Because Malone controls a huge cable system, FCC rules bar him from controlling more...