Word: luridly
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...left it to his prize protégé, Manhattan's Leonard Bernstein. The crowd in Tanglewood's barnlike opera theater got three hours of violent and raw emotion, and agreed that in plot, at least, Peter Grimes had much in common with Bizet's lurid tale of smuggling and murder...
Chicago sweated as the woolly, wet heat topped 99°. But it was not too hot for lurid drama. For the first time since the Leopold-Loeb thrill murder of 1924, the home of sudden gunfire and anonymous funeral wreaths last week had a crime story juicy enough to appease its appetite. It seemed like old times...
...from overseas, it hits him like a brick in the face. (Especially if he comes from Burma, where there was no looting: there was nothing to loot.) If Truth was the first casualty in the war, then ordinary Honesty also has been pretty badly mauled in the peace. The lurid signboard of this state of affairs is the Black Market...
Remington and associated Hearstlings improved their Cuban idleness with one of the decade's most lurid yarns: the story of how three young Cuban women were stripped and searched by Spanish police aboard a U.S. steamship in Havana harbor. Remington did the revealing illustration. It was a scoop until the rival Pulitzer press made it equally famous as a hoax...
Some of Rio's most recent crimes have reached the top strata of lurid violence. Samples: 1) borrowing a time-worn page from the Aztecs, a boy cut out his beloved's heart; 2) using a sharp hatchet, a man chopped his wife into small pieces as she lay in bed with their two-year-old daughter. Last week the Latin American Congress of Criminologists picked Rio as the site of their 1946 convention...