Word: luridly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...takes a dim view of locating LNG terminals in highly populated areas, because of the possibility that leaking liquid might vaporize, ignite and form a deadly fireball. Gasmen retort that no one has ever seen such a fireball. John Cabot, chairman of Distrigas, scoffs that a catastrophe is "a lurid image in search of a believable scenario." Whatever their ultimate volume, though, LNG imports are sure to rise; they constitute a supplemental form of energy that the U.S. simply cannot spurn...
...Dean's brother, Blaine (Paul LeMat) too often whines his good intentions, when he plays the hero with a mission to exorcise "garbage" from the airwaves. His girlfriend Pam (Candy Clark) also pouts and gestures too conventionally to merit serious attention as a lonely, depressed women who resorts to lurid sexuality through...
...cover, arts on the back page set-up, the Voice has run some highly suspect cover stories. Three weeks ago, for example, there was a story called "Asexuality: Nobody's Doing It," and last week there was a long piece about the Boston sex scandal, an interesting, if somewhat lurid story. Of course, the story happened three months ago--and in Boston, not New York. The Voice seems occasionally hell-bent on titillating its readers as much as possible, even at the expense of its solid and well-deserved reputation. Fortunately, some of the Voice columnists, including Nat Hentoff, have...
...story worthy of the thousand and one Arabian nights, and the British press played it with grisly gusto. ROYAL FAMILY KILL PRINCESS WHO ELOPED was the headline in the Observer, which spurred competing papers into ferreting out the lurid details. According to first reports, the tragic story involved a Saudi Arabian princess called Misha who married a commoner, thereby incurring the wrath of her princely grandfather; she was shot and her husband beheaded. Leading the Fleet Street pack was the Daily Express, which published some blurry pictures that purported to show the beheading of Misha's lover, taken...
...society in which recreational use of marijuana was steadily becoming more popular. Contemporary newspapers frequently ran articles of purported instances where one marijuana cigarette had led previously respectable citizens to commit crimes of violence or had sent them into fits of insanity. The stories, of course, were told in lurid detail and did much to boost sales. These imaginative stories, combined with the mistaken belief that the drug was highly addictive, led to a series of laws which, while not banning medical uses outright, imposed severe taxes on such uses. As a result, prescription of the drug fell to insignificance...