Word: luridly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proposal is the logical and unavoidable climax of the last three years of California politics. When Ronald Reagan ran for governor in 1966, he wedged a strong anti-riot plank into his campaign platform. The lurid scenes from the '66 Berkeley riots were still in the voters' minds, and Reagan made tidy political gains by emitting harsh formulas for stopping the student rioters. Reagan seemed to have overestimated the California conservatism, however; a poll taken two days after his election showed that some 65 per cent of California adults--the middle class, conservative, socially-concerned adults who had elected Reagan...
NOLAN confronts us with startling images from this lurid and abortive voyage. His illustrations suggest monotypes -- brilliant rag strokes of detail. The reader -- hypocrite, mirror-image of the poet -- peers from another of Nolan's paintings. Only the essential features of the face are defined -- in heavy skeletal patterns. The obscure background overcomes the face's body. We are forced to recognize the identity of the face, the soul. "Its BOREDOM.... This obscene beast chain-smokes yawning for the guillotine--you--hypocrite Reader--my double--my brother...
Again, outside Harvard Hall, we have been treated to the lurid spectacle of self-styled, shabbily-dressed ruffians desecrating our wooden fences with paint and so-called slogans. The bursar's cards of many of these students were confiscated yesterday, as they were in the past few weeks. The University should take immediate action against the offending individuals. Expulsion, perhaps, would teach them a good lesson about the value of private property in a society such as ours...
...Local politicians bar newsmen from the polls, but Novak got poll watcher's credentials from a friendly Republican, and these enabled him to observe what he calls "democracy, Chicago-style." Wrote Novak, in a column signed by himself and his partner, Rowland Evans: "What we saw showed that lurid Republican charges, leveled for years, have not been exaggerated...
...plate of spaghetti, and gossiped endlessly about the trial of a self-confessed strangler--Albert DeSalvo--in an East Cambridge courtroom. But now that the completed film blares out on the screen, it's hard to feel other than slightly nauseated--or even ribaldly amused--by its pastiche of lurid suggestions and high school locker jokes, topped with a machete-wielding probe of the psyche of the strangler...