Word: luridly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Except for the occasional lurid headline and sketchy story, the epidemic of murderous violence by young U.S. black men against one another goes largely unreported. This week, TIME's Nation section features a full-length account of this alarming phenomenon in American society. The idea for the story, and a large portion of the reporting, came from Correspondent Jack White, until recently a member of the New York bureau and now Chicago bureau chief...
...familiar dirty jokes. It wouldn't work at all if she were a normal size, or if she looked and sounded sexy. Apart from two or three of those sharp comments per show, she has the wit to play the straight man. She knows people tune in for the lurid tales from the provinces and not just to hear her say, "Have you tried masturbation?" or "Why don't you do it in the kitchen...
...almost -- and survival. Done with a severe palette (Rothenberg's excursions into color, in recent years, have been tentative), they have a hard grip on the eye. Of late, whole figures have reappeared in her work. By all rights, Green Ray, 1984, with its two capering figures in a lurid spotlight on a stage of some sort -- Teddy bears, or Mickey Mice, surmounted by human masks -- ought to look merely absurd; yet their forlorn hoofings imply unwelcome news about the state of being an artist...
...those who might be worried about contemporary teenagers. On the one hand, the example of its author looks hopeful: Bret Easton Ellis, 21, is a student at Bennington College and obviously an enterprising and successful young man. But the story he tells about members of his generation is lurid in the extreme. Most readers who are not helplessly zonked on sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll will finish Less Than Zero with the conviction that they have not fretted over the current condition of young people nearly enough...
Emphasizing the sense of veiled cruelty that is ever-present in the story of The Turn of the Screw, the lighting effects are spectacular. Nothing is presented in the clear light of day, but rather in a dim and slightly mottled gloom, punctuated occasionally by the lurid light of a blood-red sky. Furtive figures frantically seek to escape this depressing darkness, a darkness that almost becomes a metaphor for Quint's malevolence. Clever special effects make the two ghosts seem especially spectral. While the evil former man-servant appears and vanishes high at the top of the tower. Miss...