Word: luridity
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...often have, which inevitably makes the childhood chapters the only interesting, trustworthy ones. Talk about warts and all! For readers who want to hear about pressures and strains on the professional dancer -- the drugs, the drink, the penury -- they are all here, far more eloquently stated than in the lurid confessions of Gelsey Kirkland's Dancing on My Grave...
...camp meeting. Over the past two weeks sweet order has fled, seemingly overwhelmed by hot words and rackety confusion. Perhaps not since famed Pentecostalist Preacher Aimee Semple McPherson was accused of faking her own kidnaping in the Roaring Twenties has the nation witnessed a spectacle to compare with the lurid adultery-and-hush-money scandal that has forced a husband-and-wife team of televangelists, Jim and Tammy Bakker, to abandon their multimillion-dollar spiritual empire and seek luxurious refuge in Palm Springs, Calif...
Porn-shop owners have kept a close eye on the coalition of religious and women's groups coalescing around the issue of exploitation of children and women. As a result, nearly all of the most lurid fare, dealing with children, bestiality and torture, is gone from the shelves. Some stores have begun removing milder material on bondage and discipline as well, on grounds that the legal and political hassles involved are too much trouble for such minority tastes...
Simple justice. Is not turning an elegant film noir like The Maltese Falcon into a lurid color riot a travesty? Like putting a mustache on the Mona Lisa...
...speaker of the Iranian parliament, guarded private comments by government officials in Washington and Jerusalem, even a Danish sailor's revelations about a voyage through the Persian Gulf. Some of the more mind-boggling versions of the tale had touches of melodrama that might have come from the most lurid spy fiction: a presidential envoy slipping into Tehran bearing (so the Iranians claimed) presents of pistols, a Bible and a key-shaped cake; an American cargo plane disappearing from radar screens over Turkey; a Danish ship changing the name painted on its hull prior to reaching an Israeli port...