Word: luridness
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...relay from the U.N. will be the grandchildren of the great Olympians Jim Thorpe and Jesse Owens. But in Ventura, Calif., Hell's Angel George Christie will carry the flame, decked out in a regulation Olympic running outfit embellished with touches like a silver skull earring and lurid tattoos. The L.A.O.O.C. cashed his $3,000 sponsorship check, unaware of his club allegiance. Says Christie: "Their uniform will never look so cool...
...Edwin Meese or the Democratic presidential campaign. The network's executives say that they are covering the trial for its news value and to educate the public about how rape victims are treated in court. But CNN cuts away to other news during routine evidence, then lingers over lurid recollections of the incident, leading critics to wonder whether the trial is being turned into a sensational public entertainment...
...story with characters that can only be called surrealistic--a four-year-old boy, for example, whose mother insists on dressing in as a girl and whose intelligence is far out of proportion to his age. Donoso's remarkable combination of clarity and richness--preserved in translation--make the lurid plausible...
There is no tract of art history whose prestige has changed more quickly than pre-1900 American art. Not quite 20 years ago, the Fogg Museum at Harvard decided to rid its basement of a dusty landscape: lurid sunset over a forest-girt lake somewhere in the Northeast. Nobody wanted it. In the end Sherman Lee, the infallible pontiff (now retired) of the Cleveland Museum, bought it for $20,000. The picture was Twilight in the Wilderness, 1860, by Frederic Edwin Church, a work now thought to be one of the crucial American images, the very essence of Yankee emotion...
...That was axiomatic." Directed by John Carpenter (Halloween), the film eliminates the book's more lurid excesses, stripping it down to a tense tale of a dorky teen-ager whose 20-year-old Plymouth has an evil will of its own. The gleaming heap was actually played by 24 different vehicles, only three of which were still running by the end of the fender-bending filming...