Word: luridness
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...prejudice of my own. I would rather have my symbols built openly into a-film's structure (like Hitchcock's Tonight Golden Carls sign in The Lodger, or Hawks's The World is Yours-Cook's Tours sign in Scarface ), than hold or pan-away from lurid urban graphics as Antonioni too often does...
...letter was the key element in a lurid political intrigue centering around the heated British elections in 1924. Coming at the height of the "Red Scare," it purports to be from Grigori Zinoviev, President of the Communist International in Moscow, and instructs the British Communist Party to establish cells in the army and support the Labor Party...
...including Henry, is prepared for the lurid obituary of April 14, 1950: FONDA'S WIFE, ILL, COMMITS SUICIDE. At a "rest home," Frances has slashed her throat. Fonda plays in Mr. Roberts that night, recalls Logan, "to keep from going crazy...
...rival Zeitung fights back with such circulation builders as sex crossword puzzles, a dirty-poem page and .lurid sexoscopes (in January, Leos are "in for some luck: the boss's wife is after you," but Scorpios are advised to relax and "use this time to regenerate yourself and gather new strength"). Like concerned, civic-minded papers everywhere, the St. Pauli sheets are not above crusading. One recent Nachrichten headline read: HOW PROSTITUTION IS BEING RUINED BY HOME...
Last January, Murdoch gained control of the 6,130,000-circulation News of the World, a lurid Sunday paper, by outmaneuvering a bigger bidder, Czech-born Robert Maxwell. The deal prompted Maxwell to remark of Murdoch: "He has caught a big fish with a very small hook." Under Murdoch's direction the fish has grown even bigger, with circulation rising despite a price increase to 80 a copy. Last October, Murdoch acquired the dull but earnest daily Sun (circ.: 950,000) for a down-payment of $120,000-considerably less than he paid for his house on London...