Word: luridness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...14th century melodies orchestrated by Composer Claude Arrieu, Comedy combined humor, poetry, drama and sex in lurid mixture. Some of the sequences were unabashedly bawdy: an aged fool heaves over a medieval chamber pot, is lured into bed by a seductive young thing who promptly decamps with the old man's clothes and money. Some were queasily off-color: a visiting sultan caresses a "lovely young boy" only to discover a female under the fabric. One of the most famous of the tales had to do with the scholar who revenged himself on the lady who deceived...
Died. Gene Fowler. 70, flamboyant Boswell for flamboyant figures; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Fowler's Timberline (1933), a classic for sentimental journalists, told the story of the Denver Post and its rascally bosses, Fred Bonfils and Harry Tammen; The Great Mouthpiece was a lurid biography of a lurid, turn-of-the-century lawyer; and Good Night, Sweet Prince loyally and lovably concentrated as much on John Barrymore's peccadilloes as on his superb acting...
...Lurid theatrical excitement. A portrait of a sadistic monster. A fascinating play...
...This lurid episode may be a cliché of a thousand Sunday supplement stories about the "white slave" trade, but it actually happened innumerable times in the vociferously moralistic setting of Victorian England. The nature, extent and eventual destruction of the white slave trade in England are described in detail in this modest monograph by a British novelist, Charles (The Neon Rainbow) Terrot. Between mild beige covers, in mild beige prose, he has told a story that makes the ghastliest passages of Dickens read like a parish calendar...
...plans was brought to her attention, "that if he can accomplish it, I will give him my blessing in my own name and in the name of all the ladies of England." Tunneling actually began in 1880. But Parliament was swamped with protests. An opposition pamphlet painted the lurid picture: "Dover taken, the garrison butchered, the tunnel vomiting men of all arms, London invaded, England conquered." Britain's most respected Old Soldier, Baron Wolseley, rumbled: "Surely John Bull will not endanger his birthright, his liberty, his property simply in order that men and women may cross between England...