Word: luridly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...faithful until death. Every seven years he in a can come ashore to search for her, and in Norweigian fishing village he finds Senta, a girl obessed by fantasy who believes that she is his redemptress. It is a straightforward story, but Ponnelle has turned it all into the lurid dream of a young steersman. This allows him to dress Senta in an elaborate richly embroidered bridal gown and to make the opera into a series of nightmares and arresting tableaux. As thoroughgoing iconoclasm requires, Ponnelle also flouts the libretto. Wagner's Senta leaps into the sea to prove...
CLARK'S B-MOVIE ORIGINS are obvious in this film. His psycho-killer Black Christmas clearly inspired the lurid murder scenes in Murder By Decree. And while one expects a little blood and weird goings-on in Sherlock Holmes' pursuit of criminals, such attention to violent detail is unnecessary...
...lonely, insufferable kid was father of the gifted man. Forbidden to read the lurid pulp magazines sold in the store, Isaac pored over science-fiction monthlies. He soon began to send them short stories. At an age when many fellow students were struggling to express themselves, Asimov, who entered Columbia University's Seth Low Junior College at age 15, helped pay for his college and graduate school with fiction that sold for a penny a word. At a time when many young men were looking for their first postcollege jobs, Asimov published what became one of the most anthologized...
...together, the new episodes have a more lurid color than the old ones. In one, Elizabeth (the stunning Nicola Pagett) discovers that her poet husband (Ian Ogilvy) is impotent, at least as far as women are concerned. Turning pimp, he persuades his publisher to perform his husbandly duties upstairs while he reads his drivel to a party in the drawing room. In another, Sarah (Pauline Collins), who has quit her downstairs job, returns to disrupt the other servants with seances and other outlandish acts. It is hinted that she and Rose (Jean Marsh, co-creator of the series...
...Lurid or not, the writing is almost always first-rate, an oasis of literacy in the vast wasteland. When Elizabeth wants a motorcar, for example, she tells her husband that it has all of 18 horsepower. "What," he demands, "do you know about horsepower?" "Anyone can understand horsepower," she replies matter-of-factly. "It's a most evocative phrase...