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...when he finally arrived in Canada, he retreated to his mother's suburban Toronto home, where he lives. The well-built edifice of endorsements that had been erected for him collapsed overnight; he stands to lose an estimated $8.2 million. The only light in his personal tunnel, and a lurid one at that, came when Canadian and American football teams announced their interest in his services. The Canadian government promised an inquiry. Nothing less, it seemed, would explain the story of the man who, advertently or not, brought the 1988 Olympics to their highest and lowest moments...
...acutely the rotten kid that you may want to stand him in the corner. These are not heroes to cherish: they are tiny figures on a Blue Velvet landscape, bleating out their obsessions. But in their cries is the music of recognizable people with their defenses down and their lurid nightmares ascendant. In Track 29 every woman is a flower demanding to open, and every man is a little boy lost...
...cents a vial, then falsely claimed the samples came from Medicaid patients and billed the Government for millions of dollars' worth of bogus laboratory tests. The alleged Medicaid rip-off, for which a physician and nine others were indicted in New York City, was only the most lurid example in a chain gang of new and continuing fraud cases that shuffled across front pages last week. In virtually every one of half a dozen scams, members of the public had been fleeced by names they thought they could trust, ranging from the Hertz rental- car company to New York City...
Carrie is just one more example, if an especially lurid one, of the self- destructive expansion of the Broadway musical. The form has become as ungainly and vulnerable as the dinosaur. Although the season just past is regarded as the strongest for musicals in a decade, eight of its 15 musical productions have closed, and two may soon join them...
...network's schedule is the tabloid sensationalism of its crime dramatizations. The hand- held camera, slow-motion scenes of violence, and point-of-view shots of the victim cowering or the murderer attacking might have been lifted straight from Friday the 13th. Equally unsettling is the juxtaposition of these lurid minidramas with the appearance of actual witnesses and victims (some of whom have even participated in the re-enactments). Were it not for the show's crime-fighting credentials, this might be called exploitation...