Word: luridly
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There are no gray areas in Ridley Scott movies; the director of Blade Runner tosses color and atmosphere into every shot. The man has never photographed a dry sidewalk in his life; the tiles have got to glisten like Bakelite in heat. Neon glyphs snake around each lurid shop sign. An ominous bike boy threads his Suzuki around columns in a Japanese mall-cathedral...
...past, either. Not at first. Rock 'n' roll put down roots like some jungle creeper, overnight, and was suddenly there one new morning, loud and outsize, full of lurid colors and maybe even a little poison. It was new, and it could be owned, wholly and instantly, by a new generation. It was what everyone was who heard it first and would love it forever. It was young...
...left simply with a gut feeling of frustration. Had to learn the hard way the lexicon of the 80's and discover exactly what "spin" means. The truth hasn't been allowed to come to the fore either for any number of legal reasons or it wasn't lurid enough for print or airing...
...early as 1927, the young vice consul senses an approaching malaise in Hamburg: "The city talks with a thrilling breathless strength through the restless machinery of its harbor, and yet talks with the voice of unutterable horror, through the lurid, repulsive alleys of St. Pauli." Kennan watches a 23-year-old pianist who is "Jewish, from Russia, and evidently is rumored to be near to death with tuberculosis . . . When he played . . . it seemed as though he himself were being played upon by some unseen musician -- as though every note were being wrung out of him." Many things have altered...
...pubic without ever going public. Enter Profumo (Ian McKellen), who in his high-domed hairdo looks like a samurai of probity. Jack is an indiscretion waiting to happen. He has so little furtive pleasure to gain, and so much reputation to put at risk, that his dalliance has the lurid fatalism of a soap opera. Then Christine snitches to the press, and domestic melodrama stokes national tragedy...