Word: luridly
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...barrel torso into a cringing Polly Bergen (the lawyer's wife), cracking a raw egg in the air and then wiping the semen-like yolk from her shoulders and breasts, caressing her, undressing her with his syrupy threats, slapping her when she can't stop wailing, he was as lurid a demon of predatory sensuality as Hollywood then dared imagine...
...lowest point on the first day of the hearings came when Pennsylvania Republican Arlen Specter implied that Hill had simply fantasized Thomas' asking for dates and his lurid remarks about pornography. It is all but inconceivable that a similarly qualified man, black or white, would be accused not merely of lying but of imagining things. On Saturday the campaign to discredit Hill sank to even lower depths when Utah Republican Orrin Hatch suggested that she had fabricated her accusations, in cooperation with liberal interest groups, from such disparate sources as court cases and The Exorcist...
...name of the alleged Palm Beach rape victim in the William Smith case under the guise of reporting on the ethics of a supermarket scandal sheet, which had used the name first. This purified the issue sufficiently for the New York Times, which ran a lurid profile of the woman the next day, violating most of the newspaper's rules about printing unsubstantiated charges from unnamed sources and naming victims in rape cases. Other publications, which would not take their cues from a tabloid but which felt noble taking them from the Times, followed suit...
...Globe is a supermarket scandal sheet published in Boca Raton, Fla. Its editor is Wendy Henry, who was fired by a London newspaper for running photographs of young Prince William urinating in a park. Since the tabloid's pages are mainly devoted to lurid tales of purported affairs and the diets of various celebrities, its stories are rarely picked up by the mainstream media. But on the day after the Globe printed the victim's name and high school yearbook photo, NBC Nightly News broadcast a report on the disclosure...
Spring break provides Harvard students with an escape from the intense intellectual grind of mid-terms. Talk is not of books but of beer, and when books are discussed they tend to be fat paperbacks with lurid covers more easily found in the local supermarket than any Harvard library...