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...Well, forget it. The films were both busts. And, whatever the lofty intentions, they were exploitation films - I mean, they exploited an audience's lurid curiosity about the harm showbiz icons could inflict on themselves and others - and failed ones to boot...
Even by the sometimes shrill standards of the New York Post, the headline seemed lurid: CHILLING DISCOVERY AFTER MANIAC'S THREAT: PLUTONIUM IN CITY'S WATER. Have New York City's 7 million residents been imbibing water that is laced with nuclear-reactor fuel...
...Decked out in an appropriate costume?he'll wear Spanish-colonial garb for a walk around the old quarter of Intramuros, but don lurid bell bottoms for a tour of the 1970s Cultural Center of the Philippines?Celdran offers up rich narratives that are by turns gossipy (his account of Imelda Marcos' rise and fall is hilarious) and compelling (the description of a bombed-out Manila, at the end of World War II, is unforgettable). They're also filled with the kind of insight that only a native raconteur can provide?Celdran is Manila-born, and with his Spanish, Chinese...
...ambiguous legacy of its last Socialist President. Mitterrand's image dominated a Parisian courtroom last week as it finished taking testimony about a vast wiretapping scheme driven in part by Mitterrand's personal obsessions. His illness, first diagnosed in 1981, the year he took power, resurfaces in lurid detail this week in a book - written by his personal doctor, Claude Gubler - originally banned by a French court in 1996 for breaching the President's medical privacy. His foreign policy, often considered driven by small-minded jealousies, is presented in a far more positive light by several historical works...
...Hong Kong developer Chinachem Group, with forging her husband's will; in Hong Kong. Famous for her eccentric attire and hairstyles, Wang took control of her husband Teddy Wang's multibillion dollar company and estate after he was kidnapped in 1990 (and declared dead nine years later). In a lurid 172-day civil case brought by her father-in-law in 2001, a court ruled that the will she based her claim on was in fact a fake. Wang, who maintains her innocence, could lose her claim to her husband's estate and company...