Word: luridity
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...assumption that the more lurid public accounts of disarray in the Soviet leadership are not true, I would like to see a properly prepared summit between Presidents Reagan and Andropov next year. As well as putting arms control back on track, I would be looking for some sign of greater understanding between them on the Middle East in particular. Frankly, the convergence of superpower rivalry and indigenous instability there at the moment worries me more than the arms race itself...
...feisty populist was elected Governor in Mississippi. Attorney General William Allain, a Democrat, took 56% of the vote to Republican Landowner Leon Bramlett's 39%. But in the end, Allain's positions on utility regulation and education reforms were obscured by a flurry of lurid charges: two weeks before the election, Bramlett supporters trotted out a pair of young black men, both transvestites, who claimed to have been paid 20 times by Allain for sexual services. A polygraph test commissioned by the Jackson Clarion-Ledger buttressed the hustlers' allegations. Allain, 55 and divorced, called the charges "damnable...
...holdings include such staid institutions as the Australian of Sydney and the Times of London. But the eight big-city tabloids of Press Baron Rupert Murdoch, 52, which cover their turf from Boston to Fleet Street, rarely stray from lurid roots: NUDE PRINCIPAL DEAD IN MOTEL (San Antonio Express); HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR (New York Post). Last week Murdoch took his headline high jinks to the U.S. heartland. He bought the troubled Chicago Sun-Times, the nation's eighth largest urban daily, for $90 million in cash...
...network had obtained the tapes from Larry Flynt, the millionaire publisher of lurid Hustler magazine. Flynt made copies available both to 60 Minutes Executive Producer Don Hewitt and to a reporter for KNXT-TV, the CBS station in Los Angeles. The news executives concluded that there would be little impact on De Lorean's ability to get a fair trial and that the tapes' newsworthiness more than outweighed the risk. The CBS arguments about lack of impact and newsiness seemed to carom into each other. "This story is an old story," insisted Hewitt...
Other officers gave similarly lurid accounts. Air Commodore Philip Pile claimed that he was taken into the bush and told he would be shot unless he confessed. Flight Lieut. Harrington Lloyd testified that after a night of electric-shock treatments, he slashed his wrists with glass from his spectacles and scrawled TORTURE WITH BATTERIES on the cell wall before being hospitalized for blood loss. Expert witnesses agreed that the defendants' physical condition was consistent with their testimony. All six men said that they had been denied access to lawyers during the early days of their detention...