Word: luridness
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...subjected to a difficult obscenity trial in Italy. The film has been bandied about as sensational, been labeled both a sex film and a cult film, all with the result that many people try not even to show an interest in it or, worse yet, see a lurid sensationalism not actually present...
Hodges even dares to have the story take a serious turn - a rather abrupt one, to be sure, but audacious and very nearly successful. King becomes a prisoner of his own fantasies, crippled when the most lurid creations of his fiction become real and dangerous. His single defense is to wall himself up inside his own perfervid imagination, to distance reality until it becomes remote and unthreatening...
...braille letter punched neatly underneath, you can leaf through and get a quick sense. The copyright page announces that the novel is "translated from the braille by David Rhodes," although Rhodes is not blind. The inside leaf is bereft of the usual publicity hoo-hah hinting at a lurid plot: someone saw fit to give nothing but an extended quotation from the text. The book introduces itself. But the immediate geographic vibration arises from the photographs interspersed--black and white pictures of Des Moines, Iowa; flat images of a ghost-town desolation, aching vistas of an earthiness that turned...
...Lurid Story. When Hoffa was twice convicted in 1964 and sentenced to a total of 13 years, the Democrats were in power. He could hardly look to the Democratic Administration for help. While his lawyers tried a variety of legal tactics to have the verdicts overturned, other allies tried different gambits. Those who had testified against him were alternately offered bribes and issued threats to change their stories. In an effort to discredit the jurors in one trial, four bellhops at the hotel where the jurors had stayed were induced to tell a lurid story about the guests' behavior...
...lurid, lacerating story intimidates the cast, with the exception of Colleen Dewhurst as Christine. She has the sensual passion and bitter force of the Greek original. As Lavinia, Pamela Payton-Wright lacks the stiletto malice of Greek vengeance but remains a young actress to watch carefully. With this revival, Director Theodore Mann and his partner Paul Libin consecrate a handsome new mid-Manhattan play house, the Circle in the Square-Joseph E. Levine Theater. They merit an A+ for enterprise and a question mark for good judgment...