Word: luridly
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David R. Gammons' garish set matches the play's bleak tone. Covered in graffitti and enhanced by slide-projected insults and blurry photos, it is lurid and angry. The lighting, too, adds atmosphere--sometimes intimate, sometimes glaringly bright...
Akira demands a certain tolerance for the more hyperbolic aspects of pulp storytelling, but it always repays, never tries your patience. The movie is a visual dazzler. Tokyo is imagined down to the last noodle shop and intersection, a place of deep night and lurid neon that looks like Blade Runner on spoiled mushrooms. It's no wonder that Akira, first released in Tokyo in 1988, is still playing the midnight-movie circuit in U.S. theaters. So far, it's not available on videotape either, which is fair enough. Laser disc -- with its superior sound and resolution -- can put Akira...
Vonnie Roemer adds to the list of well-played comic types as a tantrum-prone schoolgirl and as a she-male dominatrix. David McMahon, as Gratiana, pulls off a lurid parody of the indolent housewife, and so it goes...
...simulated eyes with colored irises set in the now empty sockets of The Kritios Boy. And far from rising above anxiety, classical Greek art pullulated with horrors: snakes, monsters, decapitated Gorgons, all designed to ward off the terrors of the spirit world. One sometimes wonders if ancient Greece, more lurid than white, so obsessed with blood feud and inexpungible guilt, wasn't closer to modern Bosnia than to the bright world of Winckelmann. But you cannot put that kind of "classicism" in a museum, or relate it to "democracy...
...demon lover; he was a pestilence, the lord of bats and rats, and his touch was not romantic but rabid. He represented unseductive evil. Bram Stoker's Dracula proposed that English innocence could be sucked dry by European decadence, until English common sense drove a stake through its lurid heart...