Word: luridness
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...should sorrow be always creeping in upon joy? Why should it pierce him and find him out in this dear, beautiful place into which he had been wafted so mysteriously?" The plot-a 19th century version of the ancient tale of Tristan and Isolde-is every bit as lurid as the prose. Cryptic strangers turn up at Cornish inns; blackhearted villains display appropriately "bestial" passions; brave young Tristan nearly gets himself killed stopping the runaway horses of Isolde's barouche. Nature obligingly spurs on the action with torrential rains, impenetrable fogs, thunderclaps and lightning bolts...
Anxious to forestall any lurid SEC revelations, the financial community is in the midst of a frantic bout of self-policing. Three weeks ago, the governors of New York's American Exchange secured the resignation of longtime Amex President Edward McCormick (TIME, Dec. 22). Last week, in a follow-up move, a special Amex investigating committee urged a sweeping reorganization of the exchange, which would bring its practices closer into line with those of the well-policed New York Stock Exchange. Chief changes proposed: to increase the policing power of Amex's administration, decrease the number of "self...
...weathercock of taste, Walpole is more gilded than dependable. It soon becomes clear that he cultivates lesser things at the expense of greater ones, that his feeling for Gothic is really a love of the exotic, that his sense of the visionary is in essence a taste for the lurid, that Heaven for him is hardly more than a garden and Hell hardly more than a grotto. It was not so much that Walpole couldn't penetrate Dr. Johnson's mind as that he couldn't stomach his manners. Boswell, despite his talents, remained something...
...production left more to be desired than the acting. Donald Soule's set looked just a little bit uglier than the depressing Medieval court he intended to suggest; and Joseph Raposo's incidental music was indistinguishable from all the uninspired incidental music ever written. Make-up that was more lurid and costumes that hampered less would also have helped...
...they're standing in line. Lurid advertising has activated Boston's libido again, but I predict that the crowds will shrink drastically as soon as people find out from their friends that Kazan has given us the Ladies Home Journal instead of Nugget...