Word: luridly
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Because rewards are offered and the emphasis is on lurid cases exposing more sex and violence than is customary on fictional action shows, XY has risen to No. 1 in the ratings. A Spanish imitation of the show is also a hit and will go from bimonthly to weekly in July. A Danish version was canceled after three programs, no arrests and an accusation that the show had inspired a Copenhagen girl to attempt a bank robbery...
Bloody Mama is a lurid little number featuring Shelley Winters doing her smothering-mother thing as the nefarious Ma Barker. You can tell she's the mama because she is older than just about anyone else in the cast...
...tastes run more toward Günter Grass, but fiction buff Mrs. Willy Brandt, wife of the West German Chancellor, conscientiously boned up on the American novel before visiting Washington with her husband. Rut Brandt's reading choice: Jacqueline Susann's lurid Valley of the Dolls...
...Juliet of the Spirits), Director Federico Fellini has always been half in love with his main target: decadence. His favorite gallery is Rome, where the extravagances of the Via Veneto add daily calories to the Sweet Life. The Appian Way leads into the past, into the harsh, lurid revels of Petronius, who mocked Nero's ancient Sybarites with the first Satyricon. Although only fragments of that manuscript survive, they are enough to reveal a Homeric spoof. The hilariously ignoble hero, Encolpius (sometimes translated as "the Crotch"), is a randy homosexual. His wanderings lead him not to godlike beings...
...lack of vision; his response to the desert is that it is dead, i. e. safe, and his irrational behavior chains him to the past-the illogical first third of the film. When Daria drives out of frame at the end of Zabriskie Point, the camera pans to a lurid and apocalyptic sunset which nonetheless represents a kind of natural order; it is identical to the sunset painted on a Bank of America billboard Mark walks vainly toward (in distance-flattening telephoto close shot) early in the film. The difference in their destinies is stated in the parallel...