Word: luridness
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...exists between reducing sexual violence and artistic interpretations of sexual empowerment—but the paper-pushers at OSAPR evidently do not care much for logic. Only those debilitated by the postmodern disciplines could interpret the mandate of a rape-counseling resource to include staging dramatic performances filled with lurid language and graphic obscenity...
...ceiling of the tent inside the Louvre's Cour Carrée, where Marc Jacobs was showing his spring 2008 collection for Louis Vuitton, was lined with giant pulp-romance-novel covers featuring lurid titles like Taipei After Dark and louche images of pinup girls in trashy lingerie. When 12 curvy models strutted onto the runway dressed in opaque white nurses' coats and prim white hats, their mouths covered with black-lace face masks, the audience might have imagined it was witnessing a 3-D rendition of artist Richard Prince's famous nurse-paintings series. And indeed, the real point...
...have adapted to accommodate the evolving tastes of moviegoers. The G now goes to few films because parents figure a PG (say, Shrek the Third) is safe. The R promises hot stuff for fanboys, which has translated into hits in several genres: violent action (300), raunchy humor (Superbad) and lurid horror (the Saw franchise). PG-13 has become the money rating. It's the one given to mainstream action movies and comedies, and it accounts for seven of this year's 10 top hits. As the ratings code has gotten more liberal, so has the audience's fondness for movies...
...successful mission would have generated for the Hilton the kind of lurid publicity that another upscale Mayfair hotel recently garnered. It was in the nearby Millennium Hotel, last November, that Berezovsky's former employee Alexander Litvinenko, a Russian-born British citizen, drank tea contaminated with the radioactive isotope polonium-210, which killed him. British investigators identified as their prime suspect Andrei Lugovoi, like Litvinenko, a former kgb man. Moscow has turned down London's request for Lugovoi's extradition...
...clear. Heir-apparent Najib has denied any involvement in the case, and no evidence whatsoever has emerged linking him with the woman's death. Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has promised that politics will not influence the outcome of the trial. But any link to such a lurid murder can't be good news for Malaysia's ruling party. The case will likely continue over the next couple months, just as the southeast Asian nation celebrates 50 years of independence. With local newspapers covering the case with unprecedented enthusiasm, Malaysians can look forward to a most salacious summer...