Word: luridly
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...lurid, old-fashioned trial...
Following fast on the heels of another lurid Texas trial-a Houston civil-court jury last month cleared Oilman Ash Robinson of charges that he had conspired to murder his son-in-law-the trial of Cullen Davis has all the trappings of a suburban western. One August night in 1976, a black-wigged intruder broke into the $6 million Fort Worth mansion where Davis' estranged wife Priscilla lived with a new lover, ex-Basketball Player Stan Farr. In the shooting rampage that followed, Farr and Andrea Wilborn, 12, Priscilla's daughter by a previous marriage, were left...
...where are those electromechanical marvels of yesteryear? Contact and Bumper, Dragonette, Humpty Dumpty and Nudgy? Possibly they have been salvaged and soldered to play again another year. But if their relay points, solenoids and 500 yds. of wiring have finally expired, there is hope for them yet. Those lurid back glasses, with their impossibly bosomed sirens or flaming heroes and devils, were the precursors of Pop art. Today, in Europe as well as in the U.S., some golden oldies are fetching prices as high as the machines they once graced. Tomorrow, they may be sanctified...
...spent four months on the staff of Bild Zeitung (circ. 4.8 million), West Germany's largest and most lurid daily. His just-published book, arguing that the paper distorts the news, faces a court action by Bild's owner, the firm of right-wing Publisher Axel Springer. But the book seems destined for the bestseller lists...
Washington: Behind Closed Doors is not afraid to be as lurid as its title-or to fudge history for melodramatic effect -only literal-minded historians and unreconstructed Nixon fans will find the show objectionable. For everyone else, Washington is a riveting throwback to the time when Watergate dominated the tube every night...