Word: luridness
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...from Madness and Civilization (1961) through studies of hospitals (The Birth of the Clinic, 1966), prisons (Discipline and Punish, 1975) to the first volume of a projected five-volume History of Sexuality (1976). Foucault is now finishing the second volume, for publication early in 1982, but anyone who expects lurid revelations will be disappointed...
...like; these days, throwbacks to sloppiness were likely to be nabbed by the Fashion Police, that particularly obnoxious feature. Mark Zanger, editor since August, shortened articles and straightened styles in an unsuccessful effort to keep the paper afloat. He wanted he told Alexander Cockburn, to make it "cheap, vulgar, lurid, left wing, intellectual and satirical, with a bow to the National Enquirer." The trouble is, cheap and vulgar and especially satire often fade to cute, which is rarely as good as honest and funny...
...idea of manhood and the worth of the dollar, to begin the list) that even now the damage has not yet been properly assessed. When the country came to, some time in the mid-'70s, it was stunned. In moral recoil from the military failure and the huge, lurid futility of the excursion, Americans did a humanly understandable thing: they suppressed the memory of Viet Nam. They tried to recover from the wound by denying...
...butcherous Emperor Bokassa, Giscard's reaction was roughly, "So what?" Of course, the French have a tradition of Non, je ne regrette rien. Across the channel, the Duke of Wellington once displayed something of that spirit when an old mistress (a Frenchwoman) threatened to publish all kinds of lurid details about his grace. "Publish and be damned!" the Iron Duke responded, or words to that effect. Grover Cleveland ("Ma, Ma, where's my pa?/ Gone to the White House-ha ha ha!") also managed a show of imperturbability about an illegitimate child who turned...
Malle has attempted two things with this movie, and succeeded in at least one. In Pretty Baby, his last movie, he buried a potentially lurid story about teenage prostitution under a mountain of period detail, creating a fuzzily romantic picture-book of old New Orleans. Atlantic City is an equally memorable urban portrait, but this is clearly not a city Malle loves, and he serves it up with objective clarity, sharply focusing his lens on stupid people in ugly places doing evil things...