Word: luridly
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...genuine eroticism is hard to find. Maybe Verhoeven is right when he says, "Americans have a problem accepting sexuality. American society is more impregnated with Christian beliefs." And to those who find the very idea of sex unholy, it may be as pointless to prefer the erotic to the lurid as to choose a call girl over a hooker. But Showgirls is cold, antierotic. It just ain't sexy; it's only...
...HAND IT TO CALVIN KLEIN: HE REALLY knows how to milk an advertising campaign, even a doomed one. First you push the envelope until it splits open by putting pubescent models in lurid poses, then plaster them on billboards and magazines-and air them on TV. If you're lucky, parents, the Catholic League and other religious groups will protest, especially over the video in which an offscreen male voice tells a girl standing alone that she's pretty and not to be nervous. Promise to withdraw the ads with an Orwellian statement about how your "positive message" was "misunderstood...
...history (behind the $25 billion takeover of RJR-Nabisco in 1989) and the largest ever in the media business. Getting hitched to family-friendly Disney may mean top-rated ABC will see its competitors exploiting new counterprogramming opportunities. "I think ABC will probably steer away from the more lurid programs, which might make the other networks go in that direction," said Time's Jeffrey Ressner in Los Angeles. The merger, already approved by the boards of both companies, is expected to pass regulatory muster as well...
...hostile 1985 takeover of Revlon that helped make Perelman one of America's richest men, worth more than $4 billion. Tepperman did pretty well too, drawing a salary and bonus totalling more than $2 million. Now he hopes to do even better: in a $25 million lawsuit that spawned lurid headlines as it went to trial last week in White Plains, New York, Tepperman charges wrongful dismissal and, not incidentally, paints an ugly picture of Perelman's operation. Is there an unpleasant side to staggering wealth...
...might expect that once celebrity has quitted the courtroom, we could find solace in the lurid details of Susan Smith's infanticide. But no. A South Carolina judge has ruled that there will be no cameras in the courtroom, thus denying Americans from sea to shining sea the opportunity to relive those brutal moments straight from the alleged killer's tear-stained testimony (and all in convenient 30-second sound bites...