Word: luridness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Most movies about low-life Americana condescend to their subject with lots of sweat, foul patter, fat ladies and idiot giggling. This lurid and intermittently seductive melodrama (based on a true story) just observes Brad Sr. and his mob dispassionately, like slime mold under a microscope. They execute their robberies, and their victims, with soulless professionalism; their gangster grimaces register starkness without sexiness. Brad Jr. and his pals are hardly more exemplary. Talking tough, swigging beer, waiting for something bad to happen, they could be the Whitewood Gang in embryo...
...jury roundly rejected the prosecution's lurid allegations of foreign, presumably KGB, blackmail against the servicemen for taking part in homosexual activity and sex orgies. As it turned out, much of the evidence in the case was, as one prosecutor put it, "contaminated by half-truths and shot through with utter lies." A Cyprus hotel where a sex party was said to have taken place, for example, had not yet been built at the time of the alleged incident. One of the servicemen was in the Falkland Islands when he was said to have been taking part in the Cyprus...
While at Harvard, Hunter made "mostly lurid, romantic melodramas," he recalls...
Except for the occasional lurid headline and sketchy story, the epidemic of murderous violence by young U.S. black men against one another goes largely unreported. This week, TIME's Nation section features a full-length account of this alarming phenomenon in American society. The idea for the story, and a large portion of the reporting, came from Correspondent Jack White, until recently a member of the New York bureau and now Chicago bureau chief...
...familiar dirty jokes. It wouldn't work at all if she were a normal size, or if she looked and sounded sexy. Apart from two or three of those sharp comments per show, she has the wit to play the straight man. She knows people tune in for the lurid tales from the provinces and not just to hear her say, "Have you tried masturbation?" or "Why don't you do it in the kitchen...