Word: luridness
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...exhibition at Rome's fashionable Obelisco Gallery was stirring up some three-alarm excitement in Italian art circles last week. In a series of lurid, explicitly painted canvases, enterprising Artist Aldo Pagliacci, 38, had set fire to six of Rome's most famed and revered churches including St. Peter's itself...
...ordinary times, the case would have rated a quiet police investigation, some chatter at cocktail parties, perhaps a feature article in the more lurid Sunday supplements. But when two middle-drawer British foreign-service men disappeared during a trip to the continent last month, the usually stolid British Foreign Office acted in a way the British call "hysterical" if displayed by Americans. Police on two continents, including Scotland Yard, launched a gigantic man hunt for Donald Duart MacLean and Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess. Everyone recalled the case of Atom Spy Klaus Fuchs and the flight of Britain...
...England farmhouse. It concerns nine characters named Adams, who are not uncharacteristically lined up eight against one. The one is the matriarch of the family (Frances Starr), a fiercely dominating woman who puts the farm above its inhabitants, her ancestors ahead of her descendants. A hurried and lurid ending shows that she was not only intensely possessive but .pathologically possessed. Playwright Snow writes with great seriousness, but little power or skill. The Long Days has all the greyness of New England without any of the granite...
...paper. There haven't been many of those, for Hansen never budged from his position and didn't see much point in answering his critics. "They went on criticizing and I just went on stating my views." By 1940 Hansen's views were old stuff and most of the lurid criticism had died down...
TIME Correspondent Dwight Martin was in Hungnam to view the lurid spectacle of allied evacuation. Martin's report...