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Despite fears that the kiosks would be vandalized or that they would encourage lurid activity, the program has been so successful that the city recently ordered 100 more toilets from the French firm that manufactures them...
...past quarter-century millennial visions have grown darker, lurid as a Brueghel. The best-selling nonfiction book of the 1970s in America was Christian author Hal Lindsey's jeremiad, The Late Great Planet Earth. Among many other things, Lindsey predicted that the Soviet Union would invade Israel and that, after millions of the righteous were gathered up in the eschatological event known as the "rapture," Jesus would descend from the heavens to preside over the real New World Order. In his 1974 book Armageddon, Oil and the Middle East Crisis, John F. Walvoord projected his vision: "Destruction on a formerly...
TABLOID READERS WHO LOOKED FORWARD TO A LUrid trial of Amy Fisher, the New York teenager turned call girl, will have to settle for the Hollywood version of the saga. In a plea bargain, Fisher, 18, admitted her guilt in the May 19 shooting of Mary Jo Buttafuoco, a Long Island housewife. In exchange, Fisher will be sentenced in December to five to 15 years in prison for first-degree assault, a reduced charge with the possibility of work release in three years. Fisher has said that at 16, she became sexually involved with Mrs. Buttafuoco's husband Joseph...
Since the Bean-Bayog case broke last semester, it has garnered national media attention. Lurid details of Bean-Bayog's case notes filed in court by Lozano's family, some containing the psychiatrist's sexual fantasies, became the focus of news reports nationwide...
Because the court did not write and publish a decision, the magnitude of the case was not immediately appreciated. Reporting on the custody battle over Moses, Dylan and the couple's biological son Satchel, last week's tabloids trumpeted the more lurid aspects of the rumpus -- such as the offer by Farrow's lawyer to show the court a sheaf of "pornographic" photos that Allen had taken of Soon-Yi -- before Judge Phyllis Gangel-Jacob sensibly called the two stars into her chambers and told them to shut up. But the December ruling has consequences beyond the front page...