Word: luridly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...secrets piled on top of secrets lent a lurid glow that was not in the paintings. And the Wyeths, inadvertently or intentionally, added to the titillation. His decision to try to protect the privacy of Helga made the suspicious more so. And Art & Antiques reports that when Betsy Wyeth was asked what the works were about and why her husband had kept them secret, she took a long, pensive pause and replied, "Love." Did Betsy mean that the artist, known for his continuing and intimate relationships with the subjects of his paintings, was having an affair with his model...
...clever, literate, elliptical writing is the best in comics today. The art is a departure from the flat, lurid drawing associated with comics ever since Roy Lichtenstein made his fortune with it; Miller uses shadows and suggestions to conceal the absurd aspects of his medium--we all saw how silly a man really looks in a Batman suit--and inventive panel arrangement to exploit its strengths. Klaus Janson's inking adds depth to the art, and the coloring, by Lynn Varley, is subtle and effective...
Most movies about low-life Americana condescend to their subject with lots of sweat, foul patter, fat ladies and idiot giggling. This lurid and intermittently seductive melodrama (based on a true story) just observes Brad Sr. and his mob dispassionately, like slime mold under a microscope. They execute their robberies, and their victims, with soulless professionalism; their gangster grimaces register starkness without sexiness. Brad Jr. and his pals are hardly more exemplary. Talking tough, swigging beer, waiting for something bad to happen, they could be the Whitewood Gang in embryo...
...jury roundly rejected the prosecution's lurid allegations of foreign, presumably KGB, blackmail against the servicemen for taking part in homosexual activity and sex orgies. As it turned out, much of the evidence in the case was, as one prosecutor put it, "contaminated by half-truths and shot through with utter lies." A Cyprus hotel where a sex party was said to have taken place, for example, had not yet been built at the time of the alleged incident. One of the servicemen was in the Falkland Islands when he was said to have been taking part in the Cyprus...
While at Harvard, Hunter made "mostly lurid, romantic melodramas," he recalls...