Word: luridly
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...worry, when Caspar Milquetoast sounds an alarm clock on Walter Mitty's dreams. There is an attractive young lady (Vanessa Brown) who lives in the apartment above Richard, and with whom he gets very pleasantly enmeshed. But there is a gaudy imagination and a lurid conscience that live within him, through which he gets enmeshed even more. At times, he prowls about the apartment babbling to himself, or (being a book publisher) confides his lusts and guilts to a psychoanalyst author...
...social rise of Three-Finger Brown proved to have been accomplished with the aid of tiny (5 ft., 118 lbs.) Armand Chankalian, administrative assistant to U.S. Attorney Lane. Chankalian testified that not until 1950 had he come to realize that his good friend, Tommy Luchese, had so lurid a past. Then, said Chankalian, he had told Luchese, "I introduced you to some very nice people, and I owe an obligation to them . . . I'm sorry, I can't see you any more . . ." Informed that his car had been seen in front of Luchese's home four times...
...Thomas E. Dew75. The gamy, lurid story of Cathy Trask dominates John Steinbeck's new novel: l. Arrow...
...main thing wrong with American newspapers is their concentration on sex and other lurid phenomena, the head of Panama's Newspaper Union said yesterday...
Skill & Stickiness. Perhaps Steinbeck should have stuck to his original idea of telling just the family history. As it stands. East of Eden is a huge grab bag in which pointlessness and preposterous melodrama pop up as frequently as good storytelling and plausible conduct. Cathy's story, gamy, lurid, and told at tedious length, is all but meaningless. Almost as tiresome is the figure of Lee, the Trasks' trusted Chinese houseman, whose warmed-over Oriental wisdom and too gentle heart give the whole California story an overdose of stickiness...