Word: luridly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is no tract of art history whose prestige has changed more quickly than pre-1900 American art. Not quite 20 years ago, the Fogg Museum at Harvard decided to rid its basement of a dusty landscape: lurid sunset over a forest-girt lake somewhere in the Northeast. Nobody wanted it. In the end Sherman Lee, the infallible pontiff (now retired) of the Cleveland Museum, bought it for $20,000. The picture was Twilight in the Wilderness, 1860, by Frederic Edwin Church, a work now thought to be one of the crucial American images, the very essence of Yankee emotion...
...That was axiomatic." Directed by John Carpenter (Halloween), the film eliminates the book's more lurid excesses, stripping it down to a tense tale of a dorky teen-ager whose 20-year-old Plymouth has an evil will of its own. The gleaming heap was actually played by 24 different vehicles, only three of which were still running by the end of the fender-bending filming...
...assumption that the more lurid public accounts of disarray in the Soviet leadership are not true, I would like to see a properly prepared summit between Presidents Reagan and Andropov next year. As well as putting arms control back on track, I would be looking for some sign of greater understanding between them on the Middle East in particular. Frankly, the convergence of superpower rivalry and indigenous instability there at the moment worries me more than the arms race itself...
...feisty populist was elected Governor in Mississippi. Attorney General William Allain, a Democrat, took 56% of the vote to Republican Landowner Leon Bramlett's 39%. But in the end, Allain's positions on utility regulation and education reforms were obscured by a flurry of lurid charges: two weeks before the election, Bramlett supporters trotted out a pair of young black men, both transvestites, who claimed to have been paid 20 times by Allain for sexual services. A polygraph test commissioned by the Jackson Clarion-Ledger buttressed the hustlers' allegations. Allain, 55 and divorced, called the charges "damnable...
...holdings include such staid institutions as the Australian of Sydney and the Times of London. But the eight big-city tabloids of Press Baron Rupert Murdoch, 52, which cover their turf from Boston to Fleet Street, rarely stray from lurid roots: NUDE PRINCIPAL DEAD IN MOTEL (San Antonio Express); HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR (New York Post). Last week Murdoch took his headline high jinks to the U.S. heartland. He bought the troubled Chicago Sun-Times, the nation's eighth largest urban daily, for $90 million in cash...