Word: luridly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Princess would have it, the titled women of Araby are giggly nitwits whose chief interests are TV, pop music and illicit sex. In one episode, an actress playing a Saudi boutique owner confides that many smart Saudi women come to such shops for assignations. In one lurid segment, royal ladies are shown cruising a desert lovers' lane in chauffeur-driven limousines in search of casual amours. In fact, people familiar with Saudi Arabia assert that there are no such pick-up strips outside Jeddah or Riyadh, and that the whole picture of royal carnality in the film...
...aggression is the most basic and dangerous of human impulses, revenge gains a step on it by being premeditated. The urge for lurid, annihilating retaliation-vindication, satisfaction, the no-good bastard's head upon a plate-fetches far back to a shrouded moment when the spontaneous animal reflex of self-protection turned to a savage brooding. The human mind, newly intelligent, began to dream of the barbarously fitting ways in which it would get even. Emanating from hurt and the pain of failure and unfairness, the fantasy of revenge became, it may be, even stronger than the imperative...
...Francisco Opera's new production of Amilcare Ponchielli's sprawling, lurid La Gioconda last September was a vast undertaking, and PBS station KCET had the wit to record the preparations in a funny, breezy documentary, Opening NightThe Making of an Opera. The camera roams in wig shops and rehearsal rooms, where Baritone Norman Mittelman after fluffing a line complains that the composer wrote it wrong. At the shaky dress rehearsal Kurt Herbert Adler, 75, the company's director, notes, at that late hour, that the chorus is posi tioned so that ticketholders on the right...
...lurid preliminaries, Sindona's trial turned out to be largely a cram course for the jury in accounting and the subtleties of foreign exchange trading. "This trial," complained a reporter from Milan, "it is arithmetical, not passionate." Still it did have its moments. The star witnesses against Sindona were Carlo Bordoni and Peter Shaddick, who had already been convicted of fraud in the case. Sindona's attorney tried to show that Bordoni was prejudiced against his client and got him to claim that Sindona had tried to rape his wife. Having provoked the charge, the defense denied that...
...Olympics.) Journalists feared that he would bring game-show hype to the evening news, as described so chillingly in Paddy Chayefsky's 1976 movie Network. Arledge did little to allay those suspicions when, shortly after taking over, he devoted 19 minutes of one 22½-minute nightly newscast to a lurid account of the capture of an accused killer, the so-called...