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...sexy spreads, to learn about “Dyke Tantry” and to read lurid short stories on phone sex and fisting in alleys, go to the Schlesinger Library...
Since the sheiks struck oil in 1966, they have driven Dubai toward the future with a high-octane fury somehow appropriate in a country sitting on one of the world's fuel tanks. In just over a generation, the area has grown from barren desert to lurid long-haul stopover to modern metropolis. Dubai used to be famous only for funneling bleary-eyed passengers through endless duty-free malls, a drab modern-day souk experience only slightly enlivened by some sensational bargains. But now, offering beaches with year-round sunshine, million-dollar horse races (see Detour) and the world...
...actually, because one of the wheels was still on top of him. His legs and feet must have been over on the other side.” It is this contrast between outlandish actual event and cool, indifferent narrative reaction that makes Dogwalker as powerful as it is. The lurid events and dark underworld that his characters inhabit suggest that Dogwalker is a serious commentary on the isolation and desolation that has become endemic in contemporary society...
Like another bountiful fall offering, David Lynch's Mulholland Dr., the Coen film serves up a lovely, lurid brew of greed, murder and twisted identities. It's a smart essay on the overwhelming human need to love someone who's bad news. Thornton's fabulously dour performance--a prime display of postmortem acting--reminds us that fall is the time when things...
...angle taken most easily, of course, involves the down-and-dirty possibilities of the case--the lurid interest in Condit's apartment house, shown frequently on TV and looking like the soulless building where Isabella Rossellini was kept in Blue Velvet; the images of secret lovemaking on dank and silent Washington summer evenings; new old girlfriends turning up on a weekly basis, talking of being told not to talk. One could swim down into this stuff or pretend to sail above it (as this paragraph somewhat does) and swim while sailing...