Word: luridly
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...five years the Journal has included Hearst's lurid American Weekly, in addition to its own stodgy supplement. In 1939, James M. Cox (the Democratic Presidential nominee in 1920) bought the home-owned Atlanta Journal to keep, and Hearst's Atlanta Georgian-American to kill. To get the Hearst paper, he promised to keep using the American Weekly for five years, with all advertising revenue going to Hearst. Last week the deal...
...weeks southern England had been under a bombardment as lurid as something out of an early Wells novel. Both London and Berlin kept the business under wraps. Then, last week, Berlin announced that London was under heavy fire from V2, the second Vergeltungswaffe or "vengeance weapon"-the long-range rocket which Berlin had long threatened and London had long anticipated...
...with cliches ("I get out the old and battered typewriter") and gilt-edged platitudes ("There are things of beauty in the world of a child that cannot be carried on into man's estate"). But it has enough drama and sparkle to be entertaining in spite of its lurid economics...
...repetitious style which, in 363 pages, develops considerable force, and 3) a genuine mastery of hillbilly dialogue. Readers who note how well Author Pennell pictures his plain soldiers, and how successful he is when he is not melodramatic, may wonder why he felt compelled to overload his book with lurid details, hope he will go easier next time...
...picture's chief fault is that the Hollywooden heads, in attempting to produce a "best-seller," have turned a simple, true story into a lurid piece of sensationalism. Instead of the inspiring epic recited by President Roosevelt in his famous 1942 radio address, one sees a movie distinguished by its attempts to turn Dr. Wassell into a Lou Gehrig or a Sergeant York...