Word: luridly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIVORCED. George C. Wallace, 58, Governor of Alabama, and Cornelia Wallace, 38; on their seventh wedding anniversary; in Montgomery. After the Governor sued for a no-fault divorce last September, Cornelia countersued on grounds of "physical cruelty and actual violence." The legal battle promised to be lurid, but minutes before the trial was to begin, an out-of-court agreement was announced, giving Cornelia a lump sum of $75,000 in alimony, some lake property and household appliances...
...would have it--it is a record that fairly thumbs its nose at the Intelligent Rock Listener, inside and out. The cover art, for one thing, is nightmarish--bright red lettering, a black-and-white checkerboard pattern spelling out "Elvis is King," and Costello himself feering out from a lurid yellow background. He clutches a Fender menacingly, and leans forward in that half-aggressive pigeon-toed stance so dear to the hearts of '50s rockers; his eyes are genuinely loony, wild and dangerous-looking, behind huge Buddy Holly horn-rims. No doubt about it--this guy is strange. Musically...
...lurid, old-fashioned trial...
Following fast on the heels of another lurid Texas trial-a Houston civil-court jury last month cleared Oilman Ash Robinson of charges that he had conspired to murder his son-in-law-the trial of Cullen Davis has all the trappings of a suburban western. One August night in 1976, a black-wigged intruder broke into the $6 million Fort Worth mansion where Davis' estranged wife Priscilla lived with a new lover, ex-Basketball Player Stan Farr. In the shooting rampage that followed, Farr and Andrea Wilborn, 12, Priscilla's daughter by a previous marriage, were left...
...where are those electromechanical marvels of yesteryear? Contact and Bumper, Dragonette, Humpty Dumpty and Nudgy? Possibly they have been salvaged and soldered to play again another year. But if their relay points, solenoids and 500 yds. of wiring have finally expired, there is hope for them yet. Those lurid back glasses, with their impossibly bosomed sirens or flaming heroes and devils, were the precursors of Pop art. Today, in Europe as well as in the U.S., some golden oldies are fetching prices as high as the machines they once graced. Tomorrow, they may be sanctified...