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...Qureshi called the charges against Jahanbegloo “lurid,” adding that “Jahanbegloo is a philosopher and apolitical academic...
...Allyson held on to that amiable freshness for most of her career. She was the girl most likely to be hugged; the one who'd be nice to come home to; the postwar dream wife, if your dreams were domestic reveries that didn't get too lurid or extravagant...
Emran Qureshi—a fellow at the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School, who also signed the petition—called the charges against Jahanbegloo “lurid,” adding that “Jahanbegloo is a philosopher and apolitical academic...
...lover with young Rudolf Nureyev. But her story was gaudier than her renown: the stuff of affairs, abortions, gunrunning for her Panamanian husband, an old age stripped of wealth, burial in a pauper's grave. Tony Palmer's thrilling 2005 documentary brims with pertinent clips and lurid gossip. It captures a dancer's life at its most rarefied and rapacious...
...signature films of Subway?s early festivals were spectacularly lurid: Herman Yau?sThe Untold Story from Hong Kong, Takashi Miike?s Visitor Q from Japan. This was the midnight-movie aesthetic run amok, a hazing at the coolest frat house on campus. Inevitably, as they grew older and threw their net wider, the Subway programmers acquired a more mature taste. Should I say, "I?m sorry to say"? Maybe. I miss the regularity of the shock value in their early selections. The last few Asian Film Festivals have been more like real film festivals, with selections that have won best...