Word: luridly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Attorney Vincent Bugliosi was chief prosecutor at the 9½-month Tate-LaBianca trial-the longest murder trial in California history. With help from Author Curt Gentry (The Last Days of the Late Great State of California), he has produced a valuable book on a lurid subject. Through solid documentation, Bugliosi and Gentry have constructed a record of savagery and official bungling-a textbook on what can go wrong between the discovery of a crime and its prosecution...
...This lurid theory postulates the existence...
...daylight a cold, nauseous light hangs about it; at night a devilish darkness settles upon it. You know, perhaps, the fried-fish shops that punctuate every corner in the surrounding maze of streets . . . and the lurid-seeming creatures that glide from nowhere into nothing-Arab, Laskar, Pacific Islander, Chinky, Hindoo, and so on, each carry ing his own perfume. You know, too . . . the cobbly courts, the bestrewn alleys, through which at night gas jets asthmatically splutter; and the mephitic glooms and silences of the dockside...
...From his pallid face, the boy expressed the bitter essence of contempt which the weak have for all that is piti less and strong. His mouth made rude noises. His fingers interpreted them . . He slouched away, his feet seeming not in complete accord with his knees. A lurid sunset turned a last sickly smile upon him before it died...
...tradition of medicine, nor is it justified in the humanist tradition." Basically, this is the argument employed by Marya Mannes in her case for euthanasia. Last Rights is, however, a slick, documentary-like series of sketches, each one muttering, never crying out, in favor of euthanasia. She recalls, in lurid detail, visits to old-age homes and intensive care units; she interviews doctors, nurses, families and the dying themselves; she dutifully records the legal history of mercy killing. Her sketches, unfortunately, lose their authenticity in the pervasive stench of soap opera. Although informative and well-documented, the book ultimately creates...