Word: luridness
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...humor. Her short film, Menses, supposedly takes a wry, comic look at the disagreeable aspects of menstruation. There are, indeed, a few amusing moments in it, but for the most part the film consists of naked women standing on a hilltop, legs spread apart, with a most unusual, watery, lurid pinkish substance gusing down their legs. The humorous highlights are a mock communion scene in which codeine tablets are taken in place of wafers and menstrual blood is drunk in lieu of wine, and when some woman with a sanitary napkin hooked up over her clothing, leaping about, stomps...
...world going up in flames, not because she cares for the wretched of the earth but because she is a snob; she does not believe that life could be better, only that existence for people of her breeding is not as nice as it once was. In between lurid fantasies of sexual violence, Ahmed is petulantly worried that a revolution may go on without him at the helm: "When everybody wants to fight, there's nothing to fight for. Everybody wants to fight his own little war, everybody is a guerrilla." The native politicians are corrupt, the foreign businessmen...
...Patty does take the stand, the bail hearing-often a commonplace proceeding-could become a dramatic mini-trial that would anticipate any regular trials that follow. Her affidavit described in lurid detail how she had been tortured and threatened so intensively by the S.L.A. that she felt herself to be a psychological as well as a physical captive of her abductors. She told how, after her kidnaping on the night of Feb. 4, 1974, she had been placed in a hot, stifling closet about 5 ft. or 6 ft. long and 3 ft. wide, her hands bound, her eyes blindfolded...
...Lurid Dreams. When these contradictions are pointed out, Tom seethes. "He's really deeply sensitive," says a friend. "He wants to be taken seriously." Tom is so miffed by critical scorn that he has started a widely advertised critics contest, inviting the public to have a go at the spoilsports who "sarcastically attack the films they love" and soliciting pity for film makers "who feel so helpless when all of their work . . . is destroyed by some inflated critic smugly showing off his intellectual superiority...
Laughlin is not only a doer; he is a dreamer. His Jungian analyst receives daily tapes of Tom's dreams. One amanuensis who transcribed the tapes recalls, "The dreams were lurid. Lots of sexual details, so much so I simply don't believe he really had such dreams but was titillated by having me listen to them...