Word: luridness
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...holocaust, Kosinski imagined and reimagined with every new novel a world of the grimmest desolation. When his novels have lived, it has never been by virtue of any particular humanity or warmth. At his best, Kosinski is a novelist of terror: The Painted Bird and Steps were catalogues of lurid atrocities, accounts of sadism, bestiality, and so forth, every one more horrible than the last. Kosinski's precise, emotionless prose didn't just render those atrocities in all their harsh reality; it became a part of the horror, inhuman beyond mere colorlessness. Kosinski's bestial imagination hasn't failed...
There seems little chance that the unsavory publicity about Mafia connections likely to be brought to light by Hoffa's disappearance will deflect the union from its course very much. The lurid headlines are an embarrassment, certainly. The Teamsters lately have sought respectability through a magazine and billboard advertising campaign that proclaims: TEAMSTERS-A PART OF THE AMERICAN LIFE...
...backed primarily by workers and intellectuals and pinions the ability of Premier Demirel's fragile coalition to make any firm moves toward compromise. He because a sort of national hero by ordering the display of military clout on Cyprus, and his portrait, tainted by a stiff smile, figures in lurid red, blue and olive posters illustrating the "peace-keeping operations" on the island...
...indirectly the testimony of his only eye-witness to the Boston City Hospital abortion. Dr. Enrique Giminez-Jimeno. The star-witness's testimony early in the trial seemed incredibly damaging, and it was certainly the dramatic high-point of the prosecution's case. But Flanagan left Giminez Jimeno's lurid testimony in the background...
...criticism since then. That famous "it has altered the face of an art form" review was almost a watershed in her work. But the problem was that she shifted the emphasis the wrong way--toward sex, and played into the hands of the newsmagazines who turned it into a lurid porno flick at worst and a "shockingly honest" film at best, though they would have done that anyway. In fact it was a brilliant picture for different reasons, many of which, given the sensibility of Bernado Bertolucci, were political. It is a sheltering, can't talk-for-least-fifteen minutes...