Word: luridly
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...Celluloid Queers, available in some video stores), we see gay characters haunting the corners of the film frame. From the early days of silent films (when Charlie Chaplin, in a barbershop, gives a cruel hairdo to an effeminate man) to the '90s (when gay or bisexual murderers lend lurid pizazz to The Silence of the Lambs and Basic Instinct), American films--like America itself--have typically treated gays as a joke or a curse...
DIED. LITA GREY CHAPLIN, 88, actress; in Woodland Hills, California. At 12, she was Charlie Chaplin's new star in The Kid (1921). At 16, she was Chaplin's new wife. At 18, her lurid divorce complaint launched one of the earliest celebrity court cases...
...Republican Thomas Bliley, the pro-business chairman of the House Commerce Committee, ridicules the FDA's drug-approval procedures as "paralysis by analysis." The Washington Legal Foundation, a vociferously antiregulatory group funded by conservative organizations and companies, has relentlessly attacked the FDA through lawsuits, press releases (sometimes printed on lurid pink and purple paper) and a series of vitriolic print ads. "If a murderer kills you, it's homicide," one declared. "If a drunk driver kills you, it's manslaughter. If the FDA kills you, it's just being cautious...
...When Sabbath is booted out of his puppetry professorship at a local college, Roth sees fit to include, as a foot-note, a lengthy transcript of the offending teacher-student phone sex episode. This is only Roth the provacateur, daring us to be offended. Sadly, it's gratuitous, lurid instead of daring...
...right, the subjects are often lurid and even bizarre. But there's no part of the entertainment spectacle, from Hard Copy to Jade, that doesn't trade in the lurid and bizarre. At least in the talk shows, the moral is always loud and clear: Respect yourself, listen to others, stop beating on your wife. In fact it's hard to see how The Bill Bennett Show, if there were to be such a thing, could deliver a more pointed sermon. Or would he prefer to see the feckless Susan, for example, tarred and feathered by the studio audience instead...