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...three-piece suits, thick stogie, shaved head and all-makes the most of it, giving the kind of magnetic, idiosyncratic performance that can carry a show. He is aided by scripts and direction that reveal a sharp feeling for the city's tough lingo, roach-infested tenements and lurid neon street scenes. Last week Kojak solved the murder of a topless go-go dancer. The key clue that allowed him to trace the dead girl: the scars from silicone treatments on her breasts...
Although the lurid details of the killings seemed to be well established, there were few clues about the psychological factors that led to the orgy of murder. Corll, who has been painted as the evil mastermind of the operation, was dead; it was his murder by Henley (who claims that he shot Corll in self-defense when the older man threatened to molest him sexually and kill him) that brought the multiple murders to light. Both Henley and Brooks, on the advice of their lawyers, have refused to speak to a psychiatrist appointed by the prosecutor...
...descendants of Oscar Wilde, denizens of the North End dressed in sunglasses. Fedoras, dark shirts and wide white ties sit elbow to elbow with shoulder length longhairs in tie died muscle shirts and jeans with plastic bags tucked in the pockets. Everybody loves the ham and eggs and the lurid murals...
That is, of course, lurid imagery as well-blood and the imperial sun. Mi-shima's sensibility was at once delicate and apocalyptic. Like Spring Snow, the first volume of The Sea of Fertility, Runaway Horses shivers with fragile yet highly wrought detail. Here Mishima also experiments, to lovely effect, with the Buddhist doctrine of reincarnation, lunuma, it seems, may be the reincarnation of Kiyoaki Matsugae, the doomed young lover of Spring Snow...
HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT 20 August 1890-17 February 1937 Since I was born after Lovecraft died, I knew of him only through seeing his books' lurid covers on paperback stands in airports and bus waiting rooms. The usual dust-jacket photograph of the author shows a youngish man with a lantern jaw and a rather startled expression. A bit of research at my university library revealed that his entire oeuvre consists of some 53 stories, plus assorted fragments and collaborations. Yet the writer has become a sort of cult figure and his books sell both consistently and well-over...