Word: luridity
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...tabloid TV crews, rested after their exertions over Joey Buttafuoco, Tonya Harding, Michael Jackson and Mr. and Mrs. Bobbitt, have rushed back into the trailer park of American sleaze. Is it fair that the President should be vulnerable to lurid my-word-against-his-wo rd charges that might be made by anyone with an impulse to become famous by sliming the mighty...
...think coffee table books are the province of old ladies in crocheted mittens, check outsleeping Beauty: Memorial Photography, a fascinatingly lurid decorative tome of post-mortem photography...
...fleeing her hedonistic world with the one true love of her life, the young and adoring Alfredo Germont, she hopes to escape her "lurid' past and begin anew...
...movie finally confounds everyone's best intentions, including the audience's. It is both sensational and sentimentalized. It ricochets from one lurid fresco to another. O.K., these days narrative coherence is for wimps. But since Savage Nights staggers along at two hours plus, it is less an inside tour of the lower depths than a life sentence down there. Even art-house moviegoers sympathetic to Collard's aims may decide they'd rather be in Philadelphia...
Part of the answer lies in American society's love for lust and violence. As Mary Nemeth writes in the weekly Canadian news magazine, MacLean's, "...other countries have their lurid scandals. But for sheer volume and variety the American experience--amplified by a hype machine that marries the age-old fascination with sex and violence to the modern miracle of high-tech communications--is unrivaled." Viewers of CNN apparently were so engrossed in courtroom testimony that when the channel switched to coverage of President Clinton's visit to Kiev, angry Bobbitt watchers clogged network phone lines, After...