Word: luridly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...distinction between cathartic melodrama and historical events needs attention, however, if only because professional historians themselves have so much trouble respecting it. Slavery, so obvious in its lurid immorality, is apt to become especially distorted in the hands of American historians. "What is it about the black experience," asks Author Michael Novak, "that produces in so many good minds, black and white, a positive lust for corruptions of elementary sense?" The answers are probably 1) guilt and 2) ideology...
Subtitled The Sexo-Political Diary of Two Adolescents, the paperback has been acclaimed-even by reviewers who disliked its lurid sex-for its fascinating insights into the political and social attitudes of Italy's far-left youth. Written by Lidia Ravera, 25, a journalist for a counterculture magazine called Muzak, and Marco Lombardo-Radice, 27, a psychologist who specializes in working with teenagers, Winged Pigs shows that today's students are rebelling against '60s rhetoric and radicalism. Although Rocco and Antonia belong to a student collective, Antonia confesses that she is "sick of all this revolutionary talk...
...Smugglers of Lost Souls' Rock, as her paperback is titled, becomes Sally's new consolation and Gardner's new form of hyphen: a novel-within-a-novel. Set in boldface type, this parody-saga of marijuana smugglers-the stuff for which lurid covers on airport paperbacks are designed-runs to almost 150 pages and comes dangerously close to upstaging October Light. Among comic-strip characters in Sally's paperback are the smuggling boat skipper Captain Fist, who gets violently seasick even in San Francisco Bay; Jonathan Nit, an inventor who schemes to solve the energy shortage...
...Beach. One of twelve children of a Georgia farmer, Candy married Mossier, 23 years her senior, in 1948. He was found stabbed to death in their Key Biscayne apartment in 1964. Candy and her 24-year-old lover, Melvin Lane Powers, were defended by Superlawyer Percy Foreman in a lurid, seven-week trial. They parted a few years later. She was subsequently married briefly to Barnett Garrison, a Houston electrical contractor...
...Lurid Picture. Measuring poverty is a peculiarly American compulsion. With the exception of Israel, no other country regularly assembles-and publishes-official statistics on its poor. Government interest in measuring poverty goes back to the 19th century, but today's system of annual reports began in 1965, when Congress decided that the flood of Great Society legislation demanded some useful yardsticks of prosperity. The result has been a system that is necessarily arbitrary and, some critics say, paints an unnecessarily lurid picture of U.S. poverty...