Word: luridly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...obsessed him since the beginning of his 53 film career. Blackmail (1929) the first British talkie, dealt with the problem of an innocent man suspected of a murder he, of course, did not commit. Frenzy too, has a nabbed innocent--only by 1973 the crimes shown had grown more lurid and gruesome: rape and strangling (with neckties). Hitchcock seems to be leaning more and more to overt comedy in his second half-century of film directing; the gourmet scenes in Frenzy will make you grateful for the central kitchen at Harvard...
...charges levelled at the excerpts are essentially right: the portions printed in Time and Newsweek do amount to a lurid, distorted account of the last days of the Nixon White House. But they don't represent the book very well, either...
INES DE CASTRO. This is the twelfth opera by the New York-born composer Thomas Pasatieri, 30; most of them have been performed either by U.S. regional opera companies or on television. A lurid tale of murder, intrigue and frustrated love, Ines de Castro builds to a climax in which the demented hero Dom Pedro places the cadaver of his true love Ines on the throne and declares her queen. Stage Director Tito Capobianco has conceived a stunning production that conveys most of the libretto's horror. What is called for musically is the power and sweep...
Life on the ground was more trying and complex-as if Herman Melville had written Tom Swift. The press made a mockery of his quest for privacy. Today, no self-respecting journalist can read the lurid coverage of the Lindbergh kidnaping case without feeling embarrassment for his craft. "Experiencing a kind of publicity hitherto known only by royal families, Presidents, or movie stars, we had none of the official protection on public figures," recalls Mrs. Lindbergh in the latest installment of her diaries and letters (The Flower and the Nettle; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich). Her recollection is the main theme...
Martin does not stop there: using tape recordings (now a standard procedure at exorcisms) and entries from the diaries of participants, he reconstructs the five exorcisms. The material varies: at times he evokes nothing more than memories of William P. Blatty's lurid prose or of bad National Enquirer exposes; alternately, without warning, Martin produces rather alarming dialogues between exorcist and spirit that touch at the heart of modern evil. This is the strength of Hostage to the Devil; it offers an insight into the evil not only of Buchenwald and My Lai but also into the more personal evil...