Word: luridly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Patty does take the stand, the bail hearing-often a commonplace proceeding-could become a dramatic mini-trial that would anticipate any regular trials that follow. Her affidavit described in lurid detail how she had been tortured and threatened so intensively by the S.L.A. that she felt herself to be a psychological as well as a physical captive of her abductors. She told how, after her kidnaping on the night of Feb. 4, 1974, she had been placed in a hot, stifling closet about 5 ft. or 6 ft. long and 3 ft. wide, her hands bound, her eyes blindfolded...
...Lurid Dreams. When these contradictions are pointed out, Tom seethes. "He's really deeply sensitive," says a friend. "He wants to be taken seriously." Tom is so miffed by critical scorn that he has started a widely advertised critics contest, inviting the public to have a go at the spoilsports who "sarcastically attack the films they love" and soliciting pity for film makers "who feel so helpless when all of their work . . . is destroyed by some inflated critic smugly showing off his intellectual superiority...
...holocaust, Kosinski imagined and reimagined with every new novel a world of the grimmest desolation. When his novels have lived, it has never been by virtue of any particular humanity or warmth. At his best, Kosinski is a novelist of terror: The Painted Bird and Steps were catalogues of lurid atrocities, accounts of sadism, bestiality, and so forth, every one more horrible than the last. Kosinski's precise, emotionless prose didn't just render those atrocities in all their harsh reality; it became a part of the horror, inhuman beyond mere colorlessness. Kosinski's bestial imagination hasn't failed...
There seems little chance that the unsavory publicity about Mafia connections likely to be brought to light by Hoffa's disappearance will deflect the union from its course very much. The lurid headlines are an embarrassment, certainly. The Teamsters lately have sought respectability through a magazine and billboard advertising campaign that proclaims: TEAMSTERS-A PART OF THE AMERICAN LIFE...
...backed primarily by workers and intellectuals and pinions the ability of Premier Demirel's fragile coalition to make any firm moves toward compromise. He because a sort of national hero by ordering the display of military clout on Cyprus, and his portrait, tainted by a stiff smile, figures in lurid red, blue and olive posters illustrating the "peace-keeping operations" on the island...