Word: luridness
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...Nabakov and Kubrick have handled a lurid subject with humor and imagination. The result is very funny at times, though it hardly burns with a gem-like pale fire...
...they'll have to shoot peas to feed him." To cheers of approval, Griffin castigates "superliberals and one-worlders" who threaten to "trample" Georgia. He praises "our sister states in the South" for their refusal to throw m "the towel of surrender" by integrating their schools, paints a lurid picture of integration in Washington, where "it was necessary to station policemen in the halls and corridors of their public schools, and even this action did not prevent rape, beatings and muggings." Although Sanders himself is a segregationist, Griffin calls him "a puppet and an amanuensis and a handmaiden...
...jealous of the 30-year-old nurse married to her son Frank that she paid $335 to have the woman murdered; of asphyxiation (cyanide); in the gas chamber at San Quentin Prison. Her 33-year-old son, an owl-eyed Santa Barbara lawyer, fought her case through a lurid trial during which she admitted that she had once been madam of a brothel and had married eleven times. "She was," said Frank, "the best mother a boy ever...
...this leads to events that would be incredibly lurid if they were not enacted at a perfect pitch of passion and despair. Writer-Producer-Director-Photographer Rick Carrier gets a compelling spontaneity that suspends disbelief...
...Vladimir Nabokov shadow the plot of Nabokov's perverse and remarkable novel rather faithfully, but they have filtered out its shades of meaning. Those who know the book will hoot at this decontamination; those who do not will be mystified as to how the story ever got its lurid reputation...