Word: luridly
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...before he was to receive his M.D., Lozano, 28, injected himself with a lethal dose of cocaine. Last week Dr. Bean-Bayog, 48, found herself before the Massachusetts medical licensing board refuting charges by Lozano's family that she had driven him to suicide by seducing him into a lurid affair, brainwashing him into thinking that she was his loving "Mom" and he her baby boy, and then dumping him when he could no longer pay for treatment...
...what misunderstandings it has produced. Chief among these is the idea of Lautrec as a cross between isolated genius and man of the people, whose deformity (and the sense of outsidership it fostered) resonated with his marginal subjects -- the whores, dancers, cabaret singers, the proletariat in search of cheap lurid pleasure, in sum the Montmartre demimonde -- to produce a truly "compassionate" art. This is largely a sentimental fiction, as Thomson argues in detail in the show's excellent catalog...
Disappointingly, the book does not even fulfill the reader's appetite for lurid details since each woman's tale of woe is told in the third person by Chellis' squeaky clean narration. As a result, the portrayals are bland and devoid of detail. Each woman's personal voice is lost amidst Chellis' smug and patronizing commentary...
...Abby." "Dear Dotti." "Ann Landers." "Miss Manners." "Ask Beth." "Ask the Countess." These columns claim they confront the major and minor issues that plague the reading public. Advice has become a staple of the modern newspaper; the Boston Herald, after all, fills a whole tabloid page each day with lurid tales of cheating spouses, rude dinner guests and meddling mothers...
...would present a stirring challenge were it not for one minor problem: there's no such thing. We may want to know things about the world around us. It may be good for us to know what happens in government. We might be really, really curious to know the lurid details of a celebrity rape trial, so curious that newspapers figure they can sell a million copies by printing a fetishistic photo of a faceless (and therefore dehumanized) woman on the front page...