Word: luridness
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...neutralist dele gates pointed out that the bridge had been blown up and the princes could not stand in midair. The Boun Oum man came back with the suggestion that a raft be built and anchored in midriver. With a mock-serious air, the neutralist chief delegate drew a lurid picture of the dangers that the princes would face on a raft in the midst of the monsoon-swollen torrent, where they might be swept away along with all hopes for peace. Rising to a fever pitch, he enumerated all those who would have to be with the princes-advisers...
...aftermath of the long, lurid expose of espionage, the country's intellectuals argued endlessly about betrayal, turncoats, witch hunts and political innocence...
...remote control, and it worked perfectly. The Vostok began to lose speed, and shifted from its orbit into a transitional ellipse. Then it began to enter dense layers of the atmosphere. Its outer surface heated rapidly, and through the curtains that covered the portholes I saw the lurid crimson glow of the flames that raged around the ship. I was in a ball of fire plunging downwards, but inside the cabin the temperature was only...
...filmed. And Hollywood's new lack of inhibitions has made possible other excellent pictures (Elmer Gantry, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), and some that are at least artistically ambitious (Shadows, The Savage Eye). But these are the exceptions. At the other end of the scale are such lurid Z pictures as Albert Zugsmith's The Beat Generation, and Sexpot Goes to College. The point is that these are no longer drastically different from many quality productions...
Mandingo (by Jack Kirkland; based on Kyle Onstott's novel) makes mere plot seem an anachronism, it has so much erupting at such lurid levels, so much more belching forth when nothing more seems possible. Except for its blatant treatment of sex, Mandingo would itself seem an anachronism, written in 1832 as well as taking place then. The scene is an Alabama plantation, with Franchot Tone as an aging, tippling, crotchety slave breeder and seller. Among his slaves are drunkards, onetime bedmates, "rheumatiz boys," and three Mandingos (so named for their ancestral African tribe), who to preserve their pure...