Word: luridly
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...their overview in 1968, a year of riot and political upheaval in France. The early rooms fizz with life. Before World War I, artists were experimenting like children with a chemistry set. Here are pieces from the studios of the great and the less-great who splashed the lurid colors of the Fauve (Wild Beast) school onto the reality they lived. André Derain's scarlet-haired Woman in a Chemise of 1906 gazes up from a rumpled bed, while Auguste Chabaud's deserted Hotel Corridor of 1907-8 reveals only a suggestive line of light under a door...
When evil performs in public, it usually comes onstage in full makeup, with lurid lighting and horrid effects, riding a horse backward. Here we see evil backstage, with its makeup off--the smirking, kicked-back thuggishness, say, of gangsters twirling pasta and gloating over the success of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre...
...light district, it takes on a raunchier meaning. At one such place popular with runaways, girls pay $2 for unlimited access to free sandwiches, juice and karaoke. Male customers pay $30 to make a "match"?a no-strings date?which the girls are free to refuse. At the more lurid end are a dizzying range of brothels called health, cabaret or image clubs. Many market their staff as minors. A Kabuki-cho club made famous by a fire that ravaged its building in September advertised uniformed schoolgirls and was called Super Loose?in reference to the girls' baggy socks...
...Look At Me explores the potential consequences of America’s insatiable image and information driven mass culture. What emerges is a lurid caricature of the 1990s: a “beautiful, starving Hutu refugee” models to satisfy the craze for “real” people; Charlotte’s saving grace is an Internet start-up which broadcasts, recounts and eventually rewrites the lives of representative Ordinary People (such as coal miners, fishermen, the homeless, addicts and farmers) and selected Extraordinary People (like herself) via the Internet; a terrorist is assimilated...
...instant book”—a cheap and profitable species of paperback. Furthermore, publishers pounced on so-called “hot-button” books, which dealt with the sensational, the “exclusive,” the controversial and often, the lurid side of the popular issues...