Word: luridly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Always Coke.") As gossips fanned stories of a Michael suicide attempt that were denied by his lawyer, sister Janet and famous friend Elizabeth Taylor jetted to Singapore, the tour's next stop, to give moral support. The Los Angeles police had already searched Jackson's Santa Ynez ranch for lurid videotapes; one report said nothing incriminating was found. The police were questioning other lads, supposedly including child star Macaulay Culkin. And when will results be issued? "It could be tomorrow, it could be two months from now," said L.A.P.D. spokesman Arthur Holmes. "We solve no crime before its time." This...
Some educators believe teenagers' reading these lurid thrillers, as opposed to playing Nintendo or watching Beavis and Butt-head on MTV, is a good thing. Viviane Lampach, a librarian at a Bronx high school in New York City, notes that her young patrons check out new paperback novels in this genre and never return them: "You hope to wean them from horror to something deeper and more meaningful." Roderick McGillis, a professor of English at the University of Calgary and author of a book on children's literature, takes a darker view: "What disturbs me is that we're developing...
This intriguing topic needs to be handled with the sure, deftness of rational consideration. Instead, Filipacchi sets out, mechanically and determinedly, to shock her audience. She seemingly fails to realize that for a population accustomed to the excesses of tabloid television and a steady consumption of its lurid confessions, this may be an impossible task...
Most of the movie eschews overt violence for its much more satisfying alternative -- the threat of violence. The guts and gore are seen mostly in the viewer's lurid imagination. That is why Jurassic Park slips so neatly into its PG-13 rating. "I do think this movie is inappropriate for children under 13," Spielberg says. "In general, though, I think children are more traumatized by violence that can be re-created in a natural setting: a movie about child abuse or a movie about murder. This is a movie that not only can't happen, but can't even...
...from the phallus of a fake rhinoceros during the three-day, semiofficial bacchanal. Navy and Marine aviators lured women down a gauntlet of drunken officers who molested them; some walked through the Las Vegas Hilton exposing their testicles or ran naked around the pool. The report is full of lurid new details about the scandal, but it may not be the whole story. Investigators believe "several hundred" of the naval officers interviewed concealed information and 51 others lied outright. Pentagon Deputy Inspector General Derek Vander Schaaf has sent files on 140 officers to Navy and Marine Corps commands for possible...