Word: luridly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ARVN troops had killed some 14,000 rebel troops in Laos. President Nixon had been emphasizing the importance of these North Vietnamese "losses" in recent statements, and Joseph Alsop, the ever-obliging hawk columnist, went so far as to treat his readers of two days ago to a lurid description of how some 500 North Vietnamese troops were incinerated in a single air strike recently...
HUGH WHEELER'S screenplay is shot through with lurid wit, and Harold Prince, though he is slow setting the narrative in motion, soon enough hits a satisfying, brisk pace. The product has an elegant playfulness which spares it from the pall which pervades black comedy of the Losey-Pinter genre. Contributing to the atmosphere of levity are Heidelinde Weiss as the voyeur daughter and Anthony Corlan as the homosexual son. They give two wildly funny performances...
Because rewards are offered and the emphasis is on lurid cases exposing more sex and violence than is customary on fictional action shows, XY has risen to No. 1 in the ratings. A Spanish imitation of the show is also a hit and will go from bimonthly to weekly in July. A Danish version was canceled after three programs, no arrests and an accusation that the show had inspired a Copenhagen girl to attempt a bank robbery...
Bloody Mama is a lurid little number featuring Shelley Winters doing her smothering-mother thing as the nefarious Ma Barker. You can tell she's the mama because she is older than just about anyone else in the cast...
...tastes run more toward Günter Grass, but fiction buff Mrs. Willy Brandt, wife of the West German Chancellor, conscientiously boned up on the American novel before visiting Washington with her husband. Rut Brandt's reading choice: Jacqueline Susann's lurid Valley of the Dolls...