Word: luridly
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Vampire Horror. Mirror Editor Silves ter Bolam thought he had an exclusive angle, and took a chance to play it. On Page One, Bolam ran a three-column picture captioned: "Women Struggle to See Haigh Charged." Right next to it was a story headlined VAMPIRE HORROR IN LONDON. Its lurid tale...
...wife (Meg Mundy); and suddenly, in the midst of hounding an abortionist, he discovers that his wife went to the man before she was married. The psychological tangle that results is too much for both McLeod and Playwright Kingsley; the solution, like the whole setup, is far more lurid than convincing...
...Both too lurid and too grandiose, The Big Knife writes of lost idealists, in whom there was always something of the ham or the hack, as though they were fallen archangels. It stirs little real sympathy for them. Designed as scathing tragedy, it emerges as botched melodrama which often suggests an ugly farce...
...Boston Herald-Traveler and the Boston Globe for bringing the Van Waters case and the Plan E controversy to the public's attention. Speaking before a meeting of Nieman Fellows at Littauer Center, he termed the Hearst paper's reporting of the hearings, on the other hand, as "lurid...
...Once a customer has been stung into buying such a book, he will be wary the second time, if the cover is merely a lurid disguise for a poorly designed, badly printed book," Armitage declared...