Word: luridness
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...Lost Man. One day a London newspaper broke into Professor Sakimura's seclusion, broke apart his life with a lurid account of his turnabout. Stung into face-saving fury, Japanese and Nazi agents insulted, browbeat, threatened him. They said that 25 of the professor's friends had been seized in Germany as hostages for his return. They brought ten friends to Stockholm to make personal appeals. They arrested his wife in Holland, showed him a letter from her urging his return lest she suffer Gestapo tortures...
Gaslight (M.G.M.) as a lush, lurid transcription of Patrick Hamilton's stage hit Angel Street (TIME, Dec. 15, 1941)-the story of a Victorian husband who systematically sets to work to drive his lovely young wife insane. Hollywood's husband is not quite so icily satanic, his wife not excruciatingly demoralized, as in the original. But as acted by Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer and directed by George Cukor, Hollywood's ace manipulator of emotional actresses and lacy decor (Camille), Gaslight is still a fierce, hair-raising, handsome piece of psychological horror...
Written by Elsa Shelley with seriousness of purpose and not just an eye on the box-office, "Pick-Up Girl" controls the natural impulse to become lurid and is carefully handled...
...sharp and lurid picture of wartime Paris-a city dancing with false gaiety on a rumbling volcano-reached the U.S. last week. It came from the New York Times' former Paris fashion correspondent, Kathleen Cannell, who arrived in Manhattan on the rescue-ship Gripsholm. She alone of all the diplomats, wounded veterans and chichi expatriates aboard, was fresh from the capital city of a captive nation...
Last week G-Man J. Edgar Hoover himself added a lurid footnote to the shoe shortage: shoes, he said, were the third biggest item in a mounting flood of hijacking. (The first two: liquor and rayon...