Word: luridly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Party, by Rudolph von Abele. The symbol of Nazi Germany, the author suggests in this biting novel, is not an armed camp or an insane asylum but a lurid party at which decent men lose their bearings and capitulate to monsters...
...world is full of whores, but a good bookkeeper is hard to find"). Too often, unhappily, the film is cute where the play was poetic, too often Director Joseph Strick permits his performers to natter what they are intended to intone. But moments of lurid lyricism survive, and vestiges of atavistic ritual. Genet is not, pace Sartre, a sick saint. He is a perfectly healthy witch doctor, and when he chooses he can cast a potent spell...
...Party, by Rudolph von Abele. At a grand and lurid party, a decent German soldier - symbolizing humanitarians everywhere - is thoroughly corrupted by an immensely attractive and utterly unscrupulous Nazi warlord...
...joining an anti-Nazi conspiracy when he makes the mistake of going to a party held by a high Nazi official in an elegant château. The symbol of Nazi Germany, Author von Abele suggests, is not an armed camp or an insane asylum but this grand, lurid party in which decent men lose their bearings and capitulate to monsters...
...even better than the Thomas Wolfe manuscripts," he thought, recalling with some amusement the tons of paper which had arrived from Wolfe's executors. "Tons and tons of scrawly paper and three beer glasses," he muttered, walking next door to the science fiction room. He peered in at a lurid wall of magazines and paper novels. Some new stuff had come in, garishly decorated with girls in scanty space suits under attack by lusting Venusian monsters. He glanced once more to make sure the complete set of Weird Tales Magazine hadn't disappeared and then stepped nonchalantly into the elevator...