Word: luridly
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...seems astonishing that marihuana was virtually unknown in this country before the 1930's. In a short time it spread north to urban centers where it became popular among jazz musicians, homosexuals, and criminals. Then a lurid press campaign against the "weed of madness" roused the public to indignation over murders, rapes, infanticides, and all manner of heinous crimes supposedly committed under its influence. The most significant outcome of the resulting hysteria over the Marihuana Menace was the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act, which empowered the Treasure Department and its Bureau of Narcotics to control traffic in Cannabis...
...Supreme Court seems to be catching up with the moral election returns. In three major decisions last week, it joined the growing body of Americans revolted by the growing body of U.S. pornography - the books, films, plays and magazines hawked on count less street corners with lurid sales pitches promising all manner of sex, all imaginable deviations, combinations and permutations. Ruling on three cases involving no fewer than 144 publications, the court handed down some bad news for U.S. smut peddlers...
...clear distinction between a work that is obscene and one that is not on the strength of the material itself. If a book is not "patently offensive," how can the way in which it is publicized make it so? The advertising test implies that a book published with a lurid cover and titillating publicity is obscene, but that the same book, without the buildup and the come-on, is acceptable...
...produces, writes, and directs his movies, which include China Gate, Run of the Arrow, Merrill's Marauders, and Un-world USA. As a producer, he usually shoots them in the days, an extremely low budgets. As a writer, he has a flair for sensationalism, and his-plot ideas are lurid and compelling, though his script construction is sloppy and his dialogue implausible. As a director, Fuller can stand with the best. He is, as critic Andrew Sarris called him, "an authentic American primitive." He rarely uses tricky angles, generally putting his camera directly in front of whatever's happening...
...wholly circumstantial evidence-and the relatively easy job of raising a reasonable doubt in the jurors' minds. According to Prosecutor Richard Gerstein, who had won 24 previous capital cases, Aunt Candy and Nephew Mel had lived and loved together on Financier Mossler's money. Aggrieved over their lurid affair, Mossler allegedly planned a divorce that would have cut off their income and her potential inheritance. To avoid that disaster, argued Gerstein, Mel jetted over from Houston to Miami one June day in 1964, jumped into a white car provided by Candy, drove to a bar near Mossler...