Word: luridness
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...Stephen Peters script is twisty but vacant of character, and John McNaughton's direction is coarse, slapdash, without the saving spark of low art or high camp. If Wild Things deserves a kind word, it would be another adjective that has long been in mothballs. Remember "lurid...
Even if the explanation for the loss is benign, law-enforcement officials are distraught because State's security procedures were so easily circumvented. A department spokesman says that until the investigation is complete, "lurid speculation as to the nature of any documents which may or may not have been compromised is premature." But U.S. diplomats must wonder whether a tweedy colleague is walking the halls and preparing to strike again...
...lurid drama of the White House sex scandal is an American tragedy. The Justices of the Supreme Court raised the curtain when, with questionable judicial wisdom, they decreed in the Paula Jones case that a President can be sued while he is in office. HENRY LEE Memphis, Tenn...
...story with no shortage of lurid details, news that Monica Lewinsky may have kept a dress stained from sex with President Clinton was in a class by itself. For fans of the prurient, it offered the tale of a woman so smitten by a sexual encounter that she vowed to keep the most unseemly of souvenirs. For the prosecution-minded, it promised hard DNA evidence. And for those hoping to see the powerful humbled, it introduced a pulse-racing new phrase: presidential semen. "Monica's Love Dress," as the New York Post dubbed it, fast became a staple of water...
Kids still young enough to carry lunch pails bearing cartoon characters have seen and heard the lurid stuff of Zippergate everywhere. We have tried to protect them with dashes here and there, but is there a fourth-grader who has seen b---j--- and lost that game of hangman...