Word: luridly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Juliet of the Spirits), Director Federico Fellini has always been half in love with his main target: decadence. His favorite gallery is Rome, where the extravagances of the Via Veneto add daily calories to the Sweet Life. The Appian Way leads into the past, into the harsh, lurid revels of Petronius, who mocked Nero's ancient Sybarites with the first Satyricon. Although only fragments of that manuscript survive, they are enough to reveal a Homeric spoof. The hilariously ignoble hero, Encolpius (sometimes translated as "the Crotch"), is a randy homosexual. His wanderings lead him not to godlike beings...
...prejudice of my own. I would rather have my symbols built openly into a-film's structure (like Hitchcock's Tonight Golden Carls sign in The Lodger, or Hawks's The World is Yours-Cook's Tours sign in Scarface ), than hold or pan-away from lurid urban graphics as Antonioni too often does...
...lack of vision; his response to the desert is that it is dead, i. e. safe, and his irrational behavior chains him to the past-the illogical first third of the film. When Daria drives out of frame at the end of Zabriskie Point, the camera pans to a lurid and apocalyptic sunset which nonetheless represents a kind of natural order; it is identical to the sunset painted on a Bank of America billboard Mark walks vainly toward (in distance-flattening telephoto close shot) early in the film. The difference in their destinies is stated in the parallel...
...letter was the key element in a lurid political intrigue centering around the heated British elections in 1924. Coming at the height of the "Red Scare," it purports to be from Grigori Zinoviev, President of the Communist International in Moscow, and instructs the British Communist Party to establish cells in the army and support the Labor Party...
...including Henry, is prepared for the lurid obituary of April 14, 1950: FONDA'S WIFE, ILL, COMMITS SUICIDE. At a "rest home," Frances has slashed her throat. Fonda plays in Mr. Roberts that night, recalls Logan, "to keep from going crazy...