Word: luridly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Spring break provides Harvard students with an escape from the intense intellectual grind of mid-terms. Talk is not of books but of beer, and when books are discussed they tend to be fat paperbacks with lurid covers more easily found in the local supermarket than any Harvard library...
...Naomi Wolf, 28, that is being published in the U.S. this spring. Already, and as might be expected, reaction is divided. Fans of the work call it daring and disturbing, but when it appeared in Britain last fall, many critics dipped their pens in acid, variously describing it as lurid and dishonest, and slamming the author as a "clever child." Others have extolled it as a feminist handbook...
Today Cione is using old costumes from his nightclub days -- with some essential parts added -- to grace the bodies of the officers' wives and other Mardi Gras cast members. The women, however, have no qualms about Cione's lurid past. Producer Jeanne Dorsey, wife of the commander of the Third Fleet, Admiral James F. Dorsey, calls Cione a miracle man for volunteering so much of his time, effort and talent to mold a military community into a theatrical troupe. For his part, Cione enjoys the chance to work with these gung-ho amateurs. "It's their positive attitude," he says...
...Toys, depicts a ragged street character from Disney's hit movie Dick Tracy. But the Rev. Christopher Rose, an Episcopal priest in Hartford who works with his city's homeless, thought Steve the Tramp's grotesque villainy was a cruel attack on his unfortunate clients. Particularly incensed by the lurid resume that adorned Steve the Tramp's packaging, Rose launched a campaign to stamp out the tramp. He got his point across to Disney and Playmates, which have decided to drop the terrifying toy. But the move comes too late to recall the product from retailers' shelves before Christmas...
...titillating the Corleones seemed in 1972 and '74, when Francis Ford Coppola turned Puzo's best seller into two Oscar-winning Godfather films. Here was a family of murderers viewed with cool compassion; they did their lurid business with style. Coppola's own style, which set the tone for '70s movies, was called operatic -- meaning that the characters moved slowly, died grandly and emoted at the top of their lungs. The book was a fast, brutal read; the movie saga was an extended, ravishing look...