Word: luridity
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Smugglers of Lost Souls' Rock, as her paperback is titled, becomes Sally's new consolation and Gardner's new form of hyphen: a novel-within-a-novel. Set in boldface type, this parody-saga of marijuana smugglers-the stuff for which lurid covers on airport paperbacks are designed-runs to almost 150 pages and comes dangerously close to upstaging October Light. Among comic-strip characters in Sally's paperback are the smuggling boat skipper Captain Fist, who gets violently seasick even in San Francisco Bay; Jonathan Nit, an inventor who schemes to solve the energy shortage...
...Beach. One of twelve children of a Georgia farmer, Candy married Mossier, 23 years her senior, in 1948. He was found stabbed to death in their Key Biscayne apartment in 1964. Candy and her 24-year-old lover, Melvin Lane Powers, were defended by Superlawyer Percy Foreman in a lurid, seven-week trial. They parted a few years later. She was subsequently married briefly to Barnett Garrison, a Houston electrical contractor...
...Lurid Picture. Measuring poverty is a peculiarly American compulsion. With the exception of Israel, no other country regularly assembles-and publishes-official statistics on its poor. Government interest in measuring poverty goes back to the 19th century, but today's system of annual reports began in 1965, when Congress decided that the flood of Great Society legislation demanded some useful yardsticks of prosperity. The result has been a system that is necessarily arbitrary and, some critics say, paints an unnecessarily lurid picture of U.S. poverty...
...only one more in a long line of similar abuses both Barrault and Lanoux have suffered over the course of their decade-long marriages. Pisier is an impulsive and flirtatious gamine and Marchand a priapic cad who insists on relieving his guilt by telling his wife all the lurid details. If that isn't enough to stack the deck in favor of Barrault and Lanoux, we also find out that they, unlike their incorrigibly promiscuous mates, have for the most part remained stolidly faithful. They are such innocents, in fact, that even after their relationship moves from mutual solicitude...
...Raphael Soyer has a wonderfully weighty picture of the massive foundations of the Williamsburg Bridge with little red Surprise Laundry wagons lined up at the curb ready to make deliveries. In the '30s George Grosz did a series of watercolors: a childlike view of the harbor and a lurid skyline. Piet Mondrian, who spent the last four years of his life in Manhattan, found the city a perfect model for his grids; later Chryssa sculpted Times Square, appropriately, in fluorescent tubing...