Word: luridness
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From that dubious starting point, Whitmore's journey runs a predictable course. He meets hate, violence, discrimination, segregation. He endures lurid encounters with whites eager to verify their surrealistic fantasies about Negro sexuality. Written and directed in sledgehammer style, the movie revels in its own righteousness, too often substituting good intentions for good work. And Whitmore's makeup merely makes him look like a dark, wet actor doing Gentleman's Agreement in blackface. What's really wrong with the film, however, stems from Griffin's original thesis. His discovery of the Negro world...
After last November's coup, in which Diem and Nhu were murdered,* Can sought asylum in the U.S. consulate at Hué, but was turned over to the military junta. Vietnamese newspapers splashed lurid accounts and dubious photographs alleging that Can ran a private dungeon and torture camp on his thousand-acre estate near...
Perverse Roses. From the first lurid hint that Béjart's Faust was a little special, everyone hoped for the worst. Béjart, 37, has a well-burnished reputation as an enfant terrible director of theater, ballet and opera. His talent for welding all three together into erotic iconoclastic visions of such works as The Merry Widow and The Tales of Hoffmann has made his name a café cliché: "style Béjart" means art that is mercilessly frank...
DAVID BERGER-Cober, 14 East 69th. From a sky of lurid pink springs a flurry of flying hoofs, rippling manes and neighing horses on a clamorous carrousel. Their youthful riders are singularly expressionless; it is hardly a merry merry-go-round. Yet Berger's children of enchained emotions project their fancy into a world of living color, an incarnation of their wildest dreams. Through...
Malamud's own case is less clear. Ever since The Assistant and his collection of stories The Magic Barrel, which won the National Book Award in 1959, Malamud has been recognized as a unique voice in U.S. literature. He catches his vulnerable characters in lurid movement and mid-passion-as if frozen in the light of a signal flare. His ear for Jewish idiom is unfailingly exact. ("We didn't starve, but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.") But the very quality that makes him an original talent-his feeling for the expressive...