Word: luridness
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This Woman Is Dangerous (Warner) shows how Joan Crawford loses her eyesight and then finds true love in the antiseptic arms of the surgeon who saves her vision. The stumbling block to this romance is that Joan, as usual, has a lurid past: she is the brain, front woman and nursemaid to a pair of hysterical gunmen (David Brian and Philip Carey). What with planning robberies, quieting their tantrums and offering such motherly warnings as, "Now don't hurt anyone," as she passes out the guns, it is remarkable that she doesn't lose her mind as well...
...Psychoanalysis, too, is in the world of the Flight a device for making the confusion of events-visible at a glance: an experience, this time a sexual experience, is declared to be central (sex giving the experience that lurid character which it needs to be recognized as central), and now, from this central experience, one looks down from a watchtower over the other experiences...
...Gianni Schicchi was just half of Bing's troubles that night. The second short opera on his double bill was Richard Strauss's lurid Salome, and this time the ear fared better than...
Plaza's clemency did not win over Guevara. With his comely young wife Norma, who had twice tried unsuccessfully to help her husband break out of jail, Guevara resumed publishing a lurid weekly called Momenta, and banged away at Galo Plaza. Guevara's old party, the ragtag Concentration of Popular Forces, rallied...
Meanwhile, the number of paper-bound titles blacklisted in the current police drive against "sex books" thus rose to four yesterday when Cambridge officers ordered three other volumes yanked off the city's racks. Police named "Women's Barracks," by Tereska Torres, as another of the "over-lurid" quartet, but refused to disclose at present what the other two were...