Word: luridness
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...Jersey Kefauver waged one of his patented, tireless, poorboy campaigns, seeking the voters' help in his underdog battle against the state "machine." But Bob Meyner refused to get mad. Although he privately describes Kefauver in lurid terms, Meyner invited Estes to a personal meeting, chatted pleasantly for 40 minutes, said kind things ("He has a style of campaigning which I like to think is my style of campaigning"). Meyner blandly denied that his organization was trying to impose its will on the voters. Said he: "I am not one of those who think that leadership is synonymous with bossism...
...Piano Concerto (Leo Smit, piano, Radio Rome Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer; Concert Hall). Sometimes called the "Jazz Concerto," this was written in 1926 (three years after Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue) and went far to establish Copland as a characteristically "American" composer. It is a fairly lurid work, with emphatic syncopations and jazz-age atmosphere; it still works, but it has become pretty corny...
Obviously, the bosses were going about their tremendous job gingerly. Russians were not yet getting all the lurid revelations of Comrade Khrushchev's weeping and wailing performance at a secret session of last February's 20th Party Congress. But the sensational details are leaking out bit by bit. The British Foreign Office got word that one of the bosses' assertions was that Stalin shot and killed his second wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva...
Murder used to be all a mystery novelist needed to get on with his story. The new whodunits stick to that main tent at traction, but beckon the jaded customers with such lurid little sideshows as sadism, pandering, homosexuality, counterfeiting, prostitution, adultery and grave-robbing...
...Croix de Guerre, and had every right to the bitter pity with which he wrote his novel. Among its 113 characters, every military type is represented-the good soldier, the coward, the goldbrick, the rank-happy shavetail, the lucky and the wound-prone. Each is caught in one lurid moment of his life, as if March had composed by the light of a Very pistol...