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...surprise since more than 87% of the population is made up of those two races. Cho, a native of South Korea, is a rare exception. If the killers' profiles are all more or less the same, however, their crimes aren't. The best known - or at least most lurid - of the mass killers are the Ted Bundys and Jeffrey Dahmers, the serial murderers whose crimes often play out over decades. In most cases, people who commit such murders are driven by a dark, even sexual pleasure, and while remorse is often associated with the acts - which accounts for the long...
...there is no bottom to the barrel of radio’s lurid modern history; purveyors of still more odious dross regularly garner more success than Mr. Imus. Take the example of his longtime rival and colleague Howard Stern, who inked a 500 million dollar contract with Sirius Radio for five years of gallivanting with porn stars and teasing a handicapped man he calls “Gary the Retard.” Meanwhile, Rush Limbaugh made his name when he referred to the NFL as “the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons...
...video store, where kids are rarely carded. Or they go to Wal-Mart and buy the even grottier "unrated" version. (Wal-Mart won't sell R-rated movies to kids under 17, but it will sell unrated ones. Hostel was a No. 1 seller there.) Or they watch lurid clips on YouTube. You can whitewash the billboards, but you can't delete all the sources of input to a child's curious mind...
...outlets are no doubt salivating in anticipation, already pitching titillating headlines and scintillating articles to appeal to the baser instincts of its readership. To justify such coverage, a scant amount of moral commentary will be sprinkled throughout, as journalists hypocritically condemn the very naughty behavior that they describe in lurid, exploitative detail. Ultimately, these reports will lampoon the undergraduate body at Wellesley as part militant lesbian feminist, part promiscuous nymphet...
...London,” which Jem overhears Mr. Blake reciting: “I wander through each chartered street...And mark in every face I meet / Marks of weakness, marks of woe.”In her prose, Chevalier lyrically captures the prevailing mood of London as a lurid “yellow light from the pub staining the fog the color of phlegm.” Yet she has this darkness intermittently cut through by the explosion of fireworks from Astley’s circus, “burning bright in the night sky.”The explosions...