Word: turgidity
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...large, enthusiastic audiences, observed a ticket-taker, are "mostly men, ten, to one. maybe. And I guess there's a few old ladies who come to get shocked." What the audience sees is a turgid little melodrama about a blonde, paranoiac babysitter. Dripping with frilly negligee, she lures Airline Pilot Richard Widmark to her charge's apartment. When interruptions prevent her making love to him, she tries to murder the freckle-faced moppet she is supposed to be taking care...
...most of the U.S.-had of the man who, Democratic orators told them fervently, would be the next President of the United States. While Truman introduced him, Stevenson stood ramrod stiff behind the President, occasionally rising on tiptoe. Then he began reading his speech. After a week of turgid oratory, Truman's included, Stevenson's words struck an entirely new, deeply appealing note. Most delegates had never heard anything like...
...1920s Schumacher, despite his missing arm, was a plump and healthy Socialist who enjoyed good food and the company of actresses, read detective stories as well as the turgid literature of Socialism, and liked to sit up late in a coffeehouse arguing politics. He early decided to remain a bachelor. "I am married to politics," he would say. From the beginning, he goaded Germany's older, more cautious Socialists. At the first weak rumblings of Naziism, in 1921, Schumacher organized young street fighters to combat the new evil, but the old Socialists would not get behind the movement...
...purposes of movie morality, the husband (Paul Douglas), after unsuccessfully attempting to strangle the other man (Robert Ryan), understandingly takes back his suddenly repentant wife (Barbara Stanwyck). As Barbara unconvincingly regenerated, the drama degenerates. And in Fritz Lang's turgid direction. Clash by Night emerges as a pretentious movie melodrama swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight...
...beauty," says Fosburgh. "Even a hamper can be a vision of the world." He makes a handsome still life from a pair of discarded work gloves or a coffee cup, a romantic landscape from the bleak hangars and dingy flats of La Guardia Airport seen across turgid Flushing...