| 单词 | lurid |
| 例句 | I think Jackson got it to scandalize me, since the red velvet cover was decidedly lurid, but it ended up being a very good story. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z I think Rome at its worst had nothing on Chicago during those lurid days.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I tended my own stupendous bruise through its lurid healing colors and vowed to resign my commission as a meddler. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z She sat with the girl, blowing bubbles—lovely, lurid, mostly magical things, with pretty colors swirling on their surfaces. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z I had the impression it wasn't night and it wasn't day, but some lurid third interval that had suddenly slipped between them and would never end. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Then another hoarse scream erupted, sudden and desperate and just as suddenly silenced, broken off by lurid, ripping bone snap. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z He lunged forward on the bleeding leg, blew past the entire field in ten leaps, and charged on, a lurid spray of blood flying out behind him as he ran. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I met white writers who talked of their responses, who told me how whites reacted to this lurid American scene. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z She had been imagining the scene of a crime, a Gothic cathedral, whose flamboyant vaulting would be flooded with brazen light of scarlet and indigo from a stained-glass backdrop of lurid suffering. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Yesterday I was almost willing to accept Van Helsing’s monstrous ideas; but now they seem to start out lurid before me as outrages on common sense. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z I felt it, too: the dread, the weight of the horrors we’d seen, which replayed themselves in an endless, lurid loop in my mind. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I stood staring at Judy’s door, which was adorned with photographs of automobile crashes, lurid headlines cut from the Weekly World News, and a nude Barbie doll hanging from the doorknob by a noose. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Vines covered most of the tree trunks, but their colors were oversaturated, almost lurid in their brightness. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z On the wall behind him there was a benign, mouse-haired calendar-Jesus with lipstick and rouge, and a lurid, jeweled heart glowing through his clothes. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A haze of dust and smoke hung over everything, lit lurid by the fire blazing at the blast sight. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z But we’d hear the drivers giving lurid and inaccurate accounts of the history of the place and the family which inhabited it. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite the brutality of the crimes, many whites did not mask their enthusiasm for the lurid story. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She hobbled to the bed on her crippled legs and picked up a copy of the Masses that carried a lurid May Day cartoon. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The sky seemed as close as the tops of the trees, covered with still cloud and flushed on the morning side with a lurid, foxy glow. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Did you see this?” he asked, pointing to a lurid cartoon. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The bear watched, his long white face lurid in the glare, and Will saw the surface of the metal begin to glow red and then yellow and then white. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Iorek growled an order and the bears moved at once into another formation, hi the lurid flicker from the sky Lyra watched as they swiftly unloaded their fire hurler. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “The tarn, is it ‘black and lurid’ enough?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z They were printed on cheap tan-colored paper with the most lurid paper covers, and they ranged across a wide variety of subjects. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z A few months ago, in an airport bookstore, I picked up the autobiography of a notorious thrill killer and was disheartened to find it entirely bereft of lurid detail. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Lockhart, wearing lurid pink robes to match the decorations, was waving for silence. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Luna cried, running in circles on the stones, each of her footprints erupting in green plants and lurid flowers. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The red light in them was lurid, as if the flames of hell-fire blazed behind them. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Despite the lurid details, Roxie Druse became something of a cause celebre—no woman had been executed in New York in thirty-nine years. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I think of them glowing in the dark, with a lurid sulfur-yellow light; I think of curling wisps of mist coming out of them and materializing on top of my bureau. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Instead, she was carried back each time to the weir, where she clung to a rusty iron ring, waiting for him, her white face vivid against the lurid mossy walls and greenish cement. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The walls were all covered with large, lurid pink flowers. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Ten minutes later, Alex finds him in the clubhouse by a gigantic vase of lurid fuschia flowers. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I thought there was a touch of the stage villain here—the gaunt figure, the black coat, the lurid lips. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Her heartbeat only settled after the hasira leaf’s power took effect and the lurid yellow glow in his eyes slightly dimmed. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He transformed Yakov’s death into cheap, pulpy entertainment with his lurid descriptions. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He stopped at a ledge and looked back; he saw in the lurid glare of the slashing lances of light a man stumbling over the snow. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Because of the lurid tales we read and our vivid imaginations and, probably, memories of our brief but hectic lives, Bailey and I were afflicted—he physically and I mentally. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as he officially quit work that evening, Rick Deckard flew across town to animal row: the several blocks of big-time animal dealers with their huge glass windows and lurid signs. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The Fix” isn’t new: The musical’s U.S. debut came at Signature in 1998 just weeks after the Clinton-Lewinsky news broke and a few months before the Starr report became the most lurid read in town. Song and dance as a political ‘Fix’ 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z They reach for magisterial levels of flamboyance, sprouting constellations of classroom globes or coated with shaggy, lurid hair, like a feral Muppet who’s gotten into a cache of Manic Panic. A Nick Cave Survey With Plenty of Bells but No Whistles 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z “In Cold Blood” aestheticized the Clutter murders, mixing lurid details with gossamer prose. Can You Illustrate Emotional Absence? These Graphic Novels Do 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z This message may not be as loud and as lurid as what passes for politics these days, but it might be the one we need to hear. Will Democracy Survive President Trump? Two New Books Aren’t So Sure 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z Based on a novel by his father, it dealt with the Nazi occupation of Poland, dramatized in lurid, nightmarish terms with few specific historical references. Andrzej Zulawski, Rebellious Film Director, Dies at 75 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z It boasts lurid murders, explicit sensuality and broad satire — as well as a riotous orchestration. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z Travel bags and small satchels in a vaguely lurid shade called “motel red” qualified as Lynchian, I suppose. On the Runway: Paris Men's: Fashion Hams and the Home Front 2011-01-20T20:54:21Z When the case was heard in July, it often seemed as if it were occurring solely to generate lurid newspaper headlines and movie-world gossip. Johnny Depp Loses Court Case Against Newspaper That Called Him a ‘Wife Beater’ 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z With its reputation on the line after weeks of lurid headlines, the 43-year-old Osterfestspiele will attempt to pick itself up: 85% of tickets have been sold and the show, organisers say, must go on. Salzburg Easter festival hopes harmony will be restored after ?1.8m corruption scandal 2010-03-26T18:52:00Z Though not pretentious, his film feels a tad overthought, held back somehow by a stubborn, dour obscurity clouding its freshly realized, lurid milieu. ‘Miss Lovely,’ About Indian Exploitation Films 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z Against this backdrop is a lurid eight-episode mystery involving the ritualistic kidnapping and murder of infants – one of which turns up, most gruesomely, in a place marked by innocence. "The Alienist" returns, but strains against its beautiful but oh-so-serious corsetry 2020-07-19T04:00:00Z HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire,” to name the most prominent current example, suffers from the same affliction, though it’s more entertaining by virtue of being more forthrightly lurid and soap-operatic. Television Review: ‘Copper,’ a BBC America Series Set in Old New York 2012-08-16T21:49:11Z The other case the programme looks at is Sheryl Gascoigne's fight for her reputation after lurid headlines appear in various tabloids, accusing her of being, among other things, a liar. See You in Court and Silk 2011-03-29T22:30:01Z These magazines were just part of Fass' empire, which included sweaty-men's mags, lurid confessionals and other sorts of garbage. Comics: Ding dong! The Code is dead 2011-02-02T00:20:12Z We walk down the wide coastal road, lined by what looks like a Jersey Shore theme parkwith lurid arcades called Stardust, Regency Palace and Leisure 2000. Feels like Devon 2011-04-01T23:01:00Z Schlather handled the most lurid moments of “The Juniper Tree” with startling, Kabuki-like tableaux, and the casts worked energetically to bring out characterization. Exploring the silliest and darkest sides of marriage at Wolf Trap Opera 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z The tension between lurid incitement and passionate tenderness is a crucial element in Mr. Bieito’s style, but until now American audiences have only heard the incendiary sound bites. Calixto Bieito Directs Williams?s ?Camino Real? in Chicago 2012-03-02T18:30:03Z Short and stocky, Hermeto, 77, wears a lurid palm-tree T-shirt and a leather cowboy hat with a long, snow-white beard, like Santa Claus transplanted to tropical Brazil. Hermeto Pascoal – review 2013-07-19T16:17:02Z Even La Rambla, long ago abandoned to the lurid forces of occupation, was ours once more. Barcelona without the tourists: ‘We've reclaimed our city but inherited a ghost town’ 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z Notes on a Scandal While many dismissed it as a lurid potboiler, there’s something commendably mean-spirited about this perverse thriller. Cate Blanchett: five best moments 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z And in some respects, that’s sufficient for satisfyingly offbeat, lurid entertainment. Blaxploitation Movies Are Ready to Stream, Nostalgia Included 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z But there is nothing lurid or gratuitous about the telling, and each piece helps us make sense of the Jude we have gotten to know. 'A Little Life' a darkly beautiful tale of love and friendship 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z When Trump announces the death of a terrorist, he perseverates about lurid, almost certainly made-up details—“whimpering,” “crying”—adding, in an awed tone, that what he’d seen was just like “watching a movie.” The Search for Pizzazz at the Impeachment Reality Show 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Two years later, Bob Woodward took a rare foray outside politics to release a book about Belushi, “Wired,” an oddly clinical, coldly lurid best seller that focused on the star’s debauched final days. John Belushi in Focus: What a New Film Gets Right and What It Misses 2020-11-22T05:00:00Z Carrey’s Riddler is the sole redeeming feature of this lurid disappointment – his mania is underpinned by a tangible sense of hurt – and this might be why he found himself on the outs with his co-stars. Jim Carrey's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z "Her biography is a wonderfully lurid and colorful story of conspicuous consumption, failed marriages, affairs, illnesses, bickering and boozing," said Geoffrey Macnab. World media pay tribute to film's "last goddess" 2011-03-24T11:33:05Z But Mr. Rapp redecorates it with his own festive color scheme, which includes lots of blue language, purple prose and lurid accounts of violence, real and imagined. Review: ‘The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois’ Revels in Unease 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z Steeped as she is in the sensational novels of the day, Catherine attributes the most lurid misdeeds to the Tilneys' forbidding father -- far-fetched conjectures that threaten to permanently estrange her from Henry. A puppet version of Jane Austen's 'Northanger Abbey' is modest success 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z What looks like lurid headlines is actually the latest episode in a 20-year struggle for the company's soul. Sex, politics and intrigue at the Bolshoi 2011-03-23T19:00:01Z “Miami Medical,” which begins on Friday, has opening sequences — a bomb explosion, a car crash, a sniper shooting — that are as lurid and cinematic as anything in the entire “CSI” franchise. Television Review | 'Miami Medical': The Bruckheimer Formula in a Hospital 2010-04-01T22:33:00Z However, as with any of the lurid visions in this movie -- bloody nails, breaking bones, puncture wounds, nasty sutures -- you're never quite sure how real they are. Ballet thriller "Black Swan" so bad it's good 2010-09-01T23:26:00Z It seemed a lurid end to an already upsetting story. The Stephen Collins shot heard round the world that wasn’t 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z “I think my natural ambition is for the lurid style,” she once said in an interview. The Ending of This Louisa May Alcott Story May Disappoint You 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z What my story will become is one titanic lurid collision of androids being blown up, androids killing humans, general confusion and murder, all very exciting to watch…. Blade Runner at 30: Celebrating Ridley Scott's Dystopian Vision 2012-06-25T14:31:59Z And there were plenty in the headlines the past year, people we’ve admired from afar, or people we encountered because their suicides were so lurid. The year of the suicide 2012-12-31T15:30:00Z But the Stockton of “Fat City” is lurid and legendary. In California, Finding ‘Fat City’ With the Man Who Wrote It 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z While June takes up residence as a kind of ghost at a motel on the West Coast, another victim’s mother stays put and endures the town’s lurid gossip. Bill Clegg’s ‘Did You Ever Have a Family’ navigates grief and recovery 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z It's certainly difficult to find much meaning in Maupassant's final years, which were as lurid as any plot he ever concocted. A brief survey of the short story part 49: Guy de Maupassant 2013-05-24T09:56:31Z Set in Las Vegas and Panama, “Gutshot Straight,” about a poker-playing getaway driver named Shake Bouchon, was followed by a sequel, “Whiplash River,” the lurid titles derived from Texas Hold ’em jargon. For Crime Novelist Lou Berney, a Winding Path Led to ‘November Road’ 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z McKinnon’s caricature is another interpretation of Hillary—perhaps less lurid, but also, with more license to name names. “Saturday Night Live” dares to ask: What if Hillary Clinton really is likeable? 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Things eventually take a violent turn, but rather than spin out of control as thrillers often do, “Apple Tree Yard” keeps its cool, becoming a tense crime thriller rather than a lurid soap. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z The sex and violence components, which are best served hot and lurid in exercises such as these, are here puréed into PG-13 pulp. ‘Blumhouse’s Fantasy Island’ Review: The Pain, the Pain 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Idly, one notices that the cropping and subtitling of the photographs, stuck in the middle of the articles or placed as exuberant filler between them, has a certain lurid flare. The Perfect Children of ISIS: Lessons from Dabiq 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z It is, she added, “by turns brutal and sentimental, lovely and lurid, as serious as the grave and blissfully preposterous.” What’s on TV Thursday 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z I loved stories of adventure and lurid horror. Anthony Bourdain: By the Book 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z This was part of a wider propaganda battle, in which newspapers ran lurid items about violence and exploitation in America. Backwards and forwards 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Still running — deadline Monday night, April 24: our contest to write lurid headlines for mundane news. Style Invitational: We beg you to differ — it’s our compare/contrast contest 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z JC: Some people would rather read the lurid story, and there are publications that exist for them. Table For Three: A Conversation With Liz Smith, Gossip Columnist and Jess Cagle, Editorial Director of People Magazine 2014-04-25T22:08:35Z Because of this it may be easy to peg a show like "A Teacher" as a lurid portrayal of some misunderstood romance. Through blurred lines "A Teacher" is a difficult examination of consent and trauma 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z The screenwriter in Mr. Hayes mandates that “I Am Pilgrim” begin with a big, lurid crime scene. ‘I Am Pilgrim,’ by Terry Hayes 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z Surrounded by lurid red foliage, she wears a head scarf and is dressed in a rubbery-looking blood red gown, like a modern Queen of Hearts. Campbell Addy Up Close 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z But from what I can tell, that is different sort of experience — that things get kind of lurid and wriggly and multicolored and there is a real change in the nature of the world. Tom Frank interviews Barbara Ehrenreich: “You’re the anti-Ayn Rand” 2014-04-06T11:00:00Z She called the film “absurd yet bold, lurid yet a tiny bit touching.” What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Love Life’ and ‘American Soul’ 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z What links Héctor with de la Cruz is a lurid story of passion, betrayal and longing. Review: ‘Coco’ Brings the Pixar Touch to Death 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z And at our backs the pleasant cottonball-cloud chaos of so many Southwest photographs was coagulating into the contused, lurid purple of a thunderstorm. A Bicycle Tour Through Remote Southwest Canyon Country 2010-07-31T04:30:00Z You can stand on the cliffs where he painted his lurid vision of grass, rocks, sea and sky, and observe that his intense colours are true to the natural beauty of this place. Art and culture at the British seaside 2011-08-03T11:25:26Z Its most lurid manifestations lick at the edges of her narrative, which allude to such horrors as a girl dismembered on video and cooked into tamales. A Mexican Novel Conjures a Violent World Tinged With Beauty 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z Absurd yet bold, lurid yet a tiny bit touching, “Come to Daddy” drags poor Norval from hopefulness to horror to a wickedly literal form of closure. ‘Come to Daddy’ Review: Father and Son Reunion 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z In the lurid 1973 dystopian thriller “Soylent Green,” Edward G. Robinson movingly played a man who embraced euthanasia, dying in a special chamber while being soothed by classical music. ‘Plan 75’ Review: Leaving Early 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z To be sure, Smith's willingness to go to any lengths to lift herself out of poverty and her lifelong obsession with publicity have a lurid quality that seems almost mythic. Anna Nicole, the opera: She aims to sleaze 2011-02-18T01:35:12Z “Land of the Throat” roams abandoned or sullied sites around Guangzhou and Shenzhen, avoiding character and plot in favor of wordless, melancholy shots that cohere into a lurid dreamscape. Chinese Artists Redraw Boundaries in ‘Tales of Our Time’ 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z The show leaned heavily on reliable tabloid conventions — lost loves, missing heirs, unexplained deaths, medical mysteries — and many of the segments varied first-person interviews with best-guess re-enactments, some of them lurid. ‘Unsolved Mysteries’ Returns, Because 2020 Isn’t Scary Enough 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Mr. O’Neill’s art style was one of a kind: highly detailed, somewhat exaggerated and capable of veering toward lurid. Kevin O’Neill, Comics Artist With a Taste for the Lurid, Dies at 69 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z From dress rehearsal to closing night, we are privy to the lurid backstage and painful onstage antics of extravagant eccentrics who rival one another in sheer hubris, drunkenness and comical degeneracy. The 99-Seat Beat: 'ICE," 'Noises Off,' 'Bad Jews' and more 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z His second premiere, “The Black Rose,” more peculiar, veers into lurid young-adult territory. Alessandra Ferri Performs a Work by Lar Lubovitch 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z If the staging does not evoke the ritualized feel of Kabuki theater, the play risks coming off as an overwrought, lurid little melodrama. Theater Review: ?The Maids? by Jean Genet, From Red Bull Theater 2012-03-16T02:00:00Z The presentation is less lurid than it would be in other places, including the broadcast networks, but it’s not noticeably more investigative or news-driven. Critic’s Notebook: For CNN, Fame Trumps News on Sunday Nights 2013-06-21T20:32:48Z It's a wildly convoluted tale of murder and justice, full of overheated passions and lurid caricatures. This week's new films 2013-03-16T06:00:06Z Often, racial Puritanism combined with evolutionary science to lurid effect. The Old, American Horror Behind “Stranger Things” 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z Densely packed with figures, they presented lurid, Boschian visions of the Last Judgment and the torments of hell rooted in images related to healing and witchcraft remembered from childhood. Malangatana Ngwenya Dies at 74; Mozambican Painter 2011-01-09T02:26:09Z The case’s lurid details fed public fascination, and the coverage sparked a further debate about the nature and morality of journalism itself. Errol Morris Takes on MacDonald Murder Case 2012-08-29T12:00:21Z I was no doubt guilty of concentrating on these lurid lyrics myself, yet for me the words are more sideshow than main event. My favourite album: The Smell of Our Own by Hidden Cameras 2011-08-16T10:14:43Z But he also drew inspiration from a more lurid source. Jim Jarmusch: ‘I’m for the survival of beauty. I’m for the mystery of life’ 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z Cooper discovers that the lurid story about the young woman’s death at the hands of her professor had been circulating on campus for years. New Book Returns to an Irresistible Theme: the Harvard Murder 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z It was an unsafe, unsettling time, whose lurid excesses were compellingly reflected in its cinema. Made in Heaven; Cruising, Clubbing, Fucking: An Elegy – review 2012-06-30T23:05:46Z Here, unfortunately, is where Mr. Lopez’s gently wrought play lurches into a more lurid register. Review: In ‘Reverberation,’ Singles Adrift in the Big City 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z As proved last week, the promise of lurid sex no longer lures audiences. Sci-Fi Elysium Edges the High-Fi Millers 2013-08-11T19:30:13Z The vivid, sometimes lurid, resin paintings heading to Venice test the integrity of the human body. In Her Last Works, Kaari Upson Explores Vanity and Decay 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z It’s lurid, somewhat distasteful stuff, with Ms. Monroe offering up vague information from the beyond. Critic’s Notebook: Real Murder in ‘The Killer Speaks’ and ‘Cell Block Psychic’ 2014-04-30T19:58:13Z Both podcasts and penny bloods satisfy a lurid fascination in all that is dark and violent. Penny dreadfuls were the true crime podcasts of their time 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z All you need to do is latch onto Howard as he runs from here to there, yelling greetings, taking calls, making deals, always moving amid jump cuts, zooms and lurid close-ups. ‘Uncut Gems’ Review: Adam Sandler’s Punch-Drunk Hustle 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z On the internet, though, we actively follow intricate webs of links and often end up in lurid virtual precincts we have never previously visited. The Trauma of Violent News on the Internet 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z In the era of film noir, and the woman’s picture, a morally compromised woman could be an object of psychological speculation rather than lurid fascination. Sexpionage! Why filmmakers can't resist a honeytrap 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z Many of these kinds of dramas strive to get our attention by prioritizing lurid outsizedness over character. 'The Deuce' Succeeds Because It's Not More of the Same 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Most people will know “A Clockwork Orange” from the lurid perfection of Stanley Kubrick’s film. Review: In ‘Clockwork Orange,’ the Future is Dark and Very Fit 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Keith Richards has been the subject of many lurid rumors; most of them turn out to be understatements. Keith Richards' 'Life': Somehow He Still Has One 2010-10-26T14:50:00Z “The Fifth Child” explores this double bind through lurid horror tropes. Doris Lessing’s “The Fifth Child” and the Spectre of the Ambivalent Mother 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z As in the novel, the philosopher looks with dismay at the lurid romances that Jo writes and sells. The Compromises of Greta Gerwig’s “Little Women” 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z The two lurid features directed by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino were separated by a series of teasers for imaginary movies concocted by like-minded pals of the filmmakers, also including Rob Zombie and Edgar Wright. ‘Thanksgiving’ Review: Gobble, Gobble, Gasp 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z She cooks up a ménage a trois for Monroe and channels her ostensible thoughts, including during a lurid tryst with an unkind President John F. Kennedy. ‘Blonde’ Review: Exploiting Marilyn Monroe for Old Times’ Sake 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z Arguably the most talked-about film going into the festival was Zola, based on the viral tweet chain from 2015 about a stripper pulled into a lurid web of sex and crime in Florida. Will 2020 be a turning point for female film-makers? 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Like “The Kennedys” this glossy, gossipy look at the Renaissance in the time of Machiavelli isn’t a history lesson, it’s a lurid family drama that happened to change the course of history. Television Review: The Power Brokers: Fathers, Sons, Dynasties 2011-03-31T20:00:05Z It’s grandly entertaining, artfully lurid stuff, and not remotely shy of its own horniest impulses: Park’s fascination with bodies, and how we pleasure and abuse them, gets an acrobatic workout here. Does Moonlight prove that gay cinema has to be sexless to succeed? 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z In the annals of political warfare, sober recitations of facts often pale next to lurid speculation. ‘Crime in Progress’ Tells the Story Behind the Steele Dossier 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z The first thing to know about “Sex Cult Nun,” and to get out of the way, is that the lurid title doesn’t remotely capture the flavor of Faith Jones’s thoughtful, carefully recounted memoir. Review | Faith Jones’s memoir of living in cult — and leaving it — is a powerful tale of resilience 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z But they’ve still got plenty of lurid material to hold viewers’ interest, from psychics to witches to, yes, vampires. How True Blood's supernatural hedonism changed genre television 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z His personal life has been the subject of lurid headlines in the past. Steve Coogan: celebrities who apologise over tabloid exposés are pitiful 2013-07-29T23:05:00Z “It has a more lurid set of connotations and shifts the debate to sexualization.” Perspective | Drag queens are not the ones sexualizing drag story hour 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z “This is yet another lurid production in an outrageous and pathetic attempt to exploit and cash in on Michael Jackson.” Jackson estate slams as 'pathetic' abuse claims in new documentary 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z And there are far too many survivors of ghastly crimes who have told their stories in lurid terms laced with self-pity. Books of The Times: A Captivity No Novelist Could Invent 2011-07-17T21:24:39Z Seen in close-up, they often look precious, combining lurid hues and aesthetic flamboyance. Review: ‘Transmissions’ Evokes a Climate (Poetic, With a Chance of Ballet) 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z This one brings lurid family mayhem to the Hudson Valley. Review | The 5 best new thrillers and mysteries to read in August 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z It takes only a nudge of nightmare to turn a harassed mother into a witch, for the squabbling domestic kitchen to reappear as a lurid riot of gingham. Stefanos Lazaridis obituary 2010-05-16T17:48:00Z Like many of the characters in this sometimes lurid but affecting memory play, Nightingale has lost the ability to hide the brute truth of his needs. | 'Vieux Carr?': The Boarders Put the Polish on Eccentric 2011-02-23T03:01:40Z But to linger on Kirchner’s lurid biography would be unfair to the mesmerizing technical genius of his style, amply on display in this exhibition. 18 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z In the film, violent crime is portrayed as comic and lurid but also, finally, as pathetic: the grandest plans end with a suitcase of cash buried deep beneath the snow, never to be found again. Emily Nussbaum: The Minnesota Noir of “Fargo” 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z A lurid light falls on four heads of cattle coming toward the viewer. Review: Paul Sandby, Unlikely Founder of Dazzling School of European Art 2010-04-16T12:05:00Z No bare-bones minimalism for this advocate of all things purple and lurid, who apparently never met a poetic image or theatrical shock tactic he couldn’t find a use for. Review: ‘Wolf in the River,’ Adam Rapp’s Latest Tale of the Dysfunctional and Dispossessed 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z The tattoo artist lines up tiny pots of ink, 16 in all, blacks and browns and reds, a metallic gold, a lurid pink. When Writing a Book Leaves a (Literal) Mark on Its Author 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z Suitable for his often otherworldly settings, Mr. Vance wrote a stylized, attention-getting prose, not baroque exactly but not lacking in ornamentation or eccentric music, and full of vivid, sometimes lurid imagery. Jack Vance, Writer of the Fantastical, Dies at 96 2013-06-03T02:51:11Z From a distance, “I Am Pilgrim” looks like a movie treatment or another lurid, violent thriller with a case of A.D.D. A Critic’s Survey of Summer Books 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z All of this comes filtered through a lurid, instantly recognizable tabloid sensibility that delights in skewering the rich, the powerful and the pretentious. Review | James Ellroy continues his examination of the corrupt and powerful with ‘This Storm’ 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Both shows—in their lurid titles, logos, ads, and beyond—stress salesmanship, which makes the public service implicitly hard to trust. “Dr. Death” and the Perils of Making Medical Malpractice a Thriller 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z This is lurid stuff, yet Mr. Pearce miraculously holds things together until the end — even when his heroine fails to do the same. Review: A Troubled Beauty and a Mysterious ‘Beast’ 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z She also wrote, “In this sad, lurid and darkly transfixing story, they locate all the elements of true-crime reporting at its most bitterly revealing.” Bruce Sinofsky, Documentary Filmmaker, Dies at 58 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z One room gives way to another, one world shifting to another, moving without warning from Poland in black-and-white to L.A. mansions to lurid back streets to desperate suburbs. Films of the decade: "Inland Empire" 2009-12-15T14:45:00Z She grabbed the first ones she saw, rushed to the till and, just before handing the lurid box of Durex over to the cashier, locked eyes with the person queueing behind her. What comes in 66 sizes and vegan latex? The new generation of condoms 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z The film’s lush, lurid palette has been exchanged for shades of black, white and silver. Review: In ‘The Damned,’ Ivo van Hove Finds the Mortal Chill in a Nazi Fire 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z From a vast amount of raw material, he has “carved out something intimate and extraordinary, skillfully chiseling out the details to bring the story to lurid life.” Times Critics’ Top Books of 2021 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Right-wing voters, government and press painted themselves a lurid caricature of the common people and then believed their own invention. Spring uprising 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z It’s also possible to seize only on the more tragic and lurid details — she was like a shore hit regularly by hurricanes — and on the fact that Rhys was a uniquely difficult person. The Life of Jean Rhys, a Uniquely Brilliant and Thorny Writer 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z The play would be more haunting — and morbid enough — without the inclusion of Williams’s lurid ending. Review: ‘Desire,’ Six Plays That Second-Guess Tennessee Williams 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z But as lurid memories of black socks fade, Mr. Spitzer may be the beneficiary of a perfect storm: the populist rage at Wall Street, the troubled administration of Mr. Paterson, and other recent sex scandals. Eliot Spitzer?s Long Road to Redemption 2010-04-07T22:51:00Z He must have known that phrases like stalking and killing would incite any producer’s most lurid instincts. Polar bears just might outlive us all 2012-12-30T16:00:00Z And I found myself checking off just where I’d previously seen each lurid element as it materialized on stage. Theater Review: ‘Master and Margarita’ Is Staged at Bard College 2013-07-19T19:48:20Z Entire drama franchises around lurid murders and the dedicated, complex men and women who solve them inform the look and execution of TV procedural to this day. "Clarice" takes the extraordinary "Silence of the Lambs" agent and makes her network-ordinary 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z “The Gallery,” intriguingly and daringly, includes a lurid account of a gay bar in wartime Naples frequented by soldiers of various nationalities, though the book’s laudatory reviews all but ignored this startling chapter. Books of The Times: David Margolick’s ‘Dreadful’ Explores a Gay Novelist’s Anguish 2013-07-31T21:30:19Z And all of it, to an outside observer, has the lurid thrill of a real-life “Game of Thrones.” ‘Glitch: The Rise & Fall of HQ Trivia’ Review: Grandiose Pursuits 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z “Law & Order” is hypnotic precisely because it is both suspenseful and utterly predictable, fascinatingly lurid but comfortingly familiar. The TV Watch: ?Law & Order?: Soon to Be Gone but Not Forgotten 2010-05-16T21:40:00Z Bestsellers in Europe, they are available in the United States, in one long, lurid volume called “The Crow Girl.” Best-selling thriller ‘Crow Girl’ dives deep — too deep — into darkness 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z A more lurid account would also salivate over the conflicting claims to her estate. Books Of the Times: ‘Empty Mansions,’ About the Heiress Huguette Clark 2013-09-04T21:26:20Z This dramatic scene for mezzo-soprano and orchestra painted Cleopatra’s suicide by snakebite in such lurid colors that the shocked jurors refused to award any prize at all. Review: Berlioz, Rendered Newly Audacious at Carnegie Hall 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Medieval history has fascinated me since I was old enough to pick up a book, exerting I suppose a sort of lurid fascination with the conflict and misery. "Game of Thrones" in real life: Actual history, just as epic as George R.R. Martin's tales 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z Sometimes, of course, there’s a cheap thrill in not knowing the answers to lurid mysteries. ‘Lippy,’ a Chilly Play From Ireland's Dead Centre 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z “This is yet another lurid production in an outrageous and pathetic attempt to exploit and cash in on Michael Jackson,” a rep for the estate said. Documentary accusing Michael Jackson of sexually abusing boys to premiere at Sundance 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z He used the tungsten lights and color gels of cinematographers, but instead of gels that simulate natural illumination, he favored pastels that cast a lurid glow. Jimmy DeSana, Downtown Pioneer and Provocateur, Goes Mainstream 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Now Ferrara has taken hold of the scandal and whisked it into a lurid, filthy pantomime; a film so brazen and foolhardy that it had sections of the Cannes audience hooting in astonishment. Cannes 2014 review: Welcome to New York - Depardieu's grunting triumph exposes more than just himself 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z It was, however, Francis King in the Sunday Telegraph who pithily summarised what many of us felt, when he described the show as "a lurid Victorian melodrama produced with Victorian lavishness". Twenty-five years on, they ask me if I was wrong about Les Mis?rables ... 2010-09-21T11:48:00Z Our mortality is a rich inspiration for entertainment -- look at how shows as disparate as "Six Feet Under," "Dexter" and "True Blood" captivate us with their grandly lurid depictions of life and death. Is there a cure for "The Big C's" cheeriness? 2011-06-26T15:01:00Z It is a lot for the eye to digest by day, but by night the lurid exterior moves to a whole new level. Leeds Arena: giant mint helmet or technicolour dreamboat? 2013-04-25T11:23:00Z Spring Breakers is a glorious beast of a film, a morally ambiguous piece of pop art, a lurid trip with hallucinatory highs and ugly comedowns. Spring Breakers, a riotous take on modern America 2013-03-30T06:00:00Z He shoots in the bright, lurid colors of melodrama but surveys the agony in front of him with cool serenity. ‘White Bird in a Blizzard,’ a Mystery From Gregg Araki 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z “Before I Fall” is tactful rather than maudlin, tasteful rather than lurid, soothing rather than creepy. Review: ‘Before I Fall,’ a Melodramatic ‘Groundhog Day’ 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z As the lurid story unfolded, Mr. Nelsons summoned enveloping swaths of sound and piercing climaxes. Music Review: Vienna State Opera Presents ‘Wozzeck’ and ‘Salome’ 2014-03-02T17:51:50Z Its chilling suggestion — appropriate to an era drowning in an excess of disparate images — is that even as you feast on a surfeit of lurid vignettes, you, the audience, will never know the whole story. At ?Malfi? and ?Bum Bum? in London, Active Audience 2010-08-12T22:26:00Z Lush, lurid climaxes are plentiful, but a brass undercurrent, with special credit to devious trombone glissandi, offers the aural impression of sand shifting underfoot. 'Florencia en el Amazonas' a culture clash solved by orchestra 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z He gets dressed in one of Jill's lurid camisoles and a denim skirt. Dark star: Julia Davis 2010-04-10T23:10:00Z As he condensed the video of Mr. Floyd’s death into a single image, Mr. Perlis said that he hoped his intention would prevent the painting from seeming too lurid. George Floyd Billboard Goes Up in Times Square 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z While Geoff Dyer contrasted: For all the lurid revelations, despite the overarching story of personal growth and the struggle for self-awareness, the most enthralling parts of the book are all about … tennis. William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2010: who should win? 2010-10-26T13:48:00Z And the unfolding of the plot, with its lurid final twist, seems infused with an almost Victorian moralism. Review: In ‘The Layover,’ Strangers on a Plane and Missed Connections 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z A post-Tarantino rush of dysfunctional Americana, full of lurid violence and dubious humour, it stands awkward comparison with some of Schrader’s more memorable films. Paul Schrader: ‘I’ve made some important films. Dog Eat Dog is not one of them’ 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z Most of the lurid sites do nothing for her, but every once in awhile she clicks on a couple of actors who seem genuinely inspired. The most pleasant novel about pornography you’ll ever read 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z In the first episode, Baron Cohen’s radio journalist persona is shown dining at the home of two Trump supporters in South Carolina and regaling them with lurid stories about his supposed family. U.S. lawmakers shown backing fake kindergarten gun scheme in Sacha... 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z After a lurid public trial, he escaped the charges, and her mother fled to London to escape him. This Life: In an Age of Lessening Privacy, Some Family Secrets Persist 2014-01-17T23:41:18Z On St Patrick’s Day, pub-goers will indulge in a few pints of Guinness or a glass of some anonymous light beer tinted a lurid shade of green. Beer of the Week: The luck of the Irish in every bottle 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z We read of this grim phenomenon in the media; Finder makes it palpable in his lurid tale. Review | A new thriller takes ‘ripped from the headlines’ to a new level 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z The paintings were extraordinary: haunting, lurid, swooning, strange. Best art exhibitions of 2012, No 2 – Edvard Munch at Tate Modern 2012-12-20T13:38:40Z Sexual violence is a lurid thread running through “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” and Mr. Fincher approaches it with queasy, teasing sensationalism. | 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo': ?The Girl With Dragon Tattoo? ? Movie Review 2011-12-19T18:19:04Z During three years of legal sparring in Virginia, Mr. Depp, 58, and Ms. Heard, 35, have shared pages of lurid details from their varying accounts of their marriage. Johnny Depp and Amber Heard to Face Off in Defamation Trial 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z “Parts made me cry,” said Mr. Durst, 67, whose travails have commanded lurid headlines for nearly three decades. Film: That?s Me on Screen, but I Still Didn?t Do It 2010-11-24T19:49:00Z Violent, lurid, scabrous, hilarious and beautiful, this novel teems with life, death and narrators. Shelf life 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z This lurid and gory “Perry Mason” doesn’t leave a lot to the visual imagination, as faces are separated from heads and clothes from bodies, in keeping with the anti-Hays Code of HBO. Review: ‘Perry Mason’ Returns, Hard-Boiled and Warmed Over 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z With fewer distractions the work’s languorous lack of vivid characterizations — its pretty, polite refusal to get as lurid or personal as it should — becomes more noticeable. Music Review: Gotham Chamber Opera Offers ‘Hija de Rappaccini’ Outdoors 2013-06-21T19:28:50Z You might howl at the sheer audacity of mixing mental illness with the body-fatiguing, mind-numbing rigors of ballet, but its lurid imagery and a hellcat competition between two rival dancers is pretty irresistible. Ballet thriller "Black Swan" so bad it's good 2010-09-01T23:26:00Z I'm not sure which is A or B, but both men perform like a hysterical double act, wearing wigs crimped like swirling ice-creams, and lurid makeup, including painted-on glasses. Willem Dafoe: 'Don't make this into a crackpot profile, please' 2013-06-16T18:00:06Z The most lurid tab was the 30,000 euros he owed to his friend, Robert Lenton, whom Pierre had apparently fleeced back in the mid-80s in a complex Spanish property deal that went spectacularly wrong. 'Reality has surpassed satire' 2010-08-21T23:04:00Z This is a profound bit of character detail, but it arrived so late in the season, and so disconnected from Celeste’s perspective, that it served only as a lurid “gotcha” revelation. The Disappointing, Emmy-Baiting Finale of “Big Little Lies” Season 2 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z A 17-year-old attracted to the jump scares in “It” is just as likely to be attracted to the lurid real-life horror explored in “The Jinx.” At AFI Docs, audiences seem younger than ever. Is it a trend? 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Shot in the manic, off-the-cuff style of “Crank,” the action that follows is lurid and over the top, with lots of graphic lacerations relished for their comic shock value. ‘Ninja Badass’ Review: Kill Bad Guys, Save Hot Babes, Look Silly 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z The recent election season has illustrated, in sometimes lurid colors, that not all Americans feel that all Americans are equal, and that misogyny, racism and homophobia continue to exist, hiding in plain sight or not. A New Day for Gay Plays? 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z While it’s refreshing to see different sexualities presented in similar, if lurid, imagery as heteronormative sex, the complacency in the presentation pushes the episode beyond titillation and into vapidity. ‘American Horror Story’ Season 5, Episode 6: Impersonation of Love 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Watch this one with a mom who loves a lurid nail-biter. For Mother’s Day, Movies All About ‘Mother’ 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z The lurid palette of Expressionism colors these works and their obsession with death and decay. Bertolt Brecht: Poet and Communist 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z The presentation of this sketchy and somewhat lurid work, which was not published until 2008, adds little more than an unnecessary footnote to Williams’s literary legacy. Festivals In Review: Warring Relatives and Joking Rabbis 2011-01-15T00:29:04Z “The Cage” is a lurid retelling of the second act of “Giselle,” in animal/insect terms, with a bitter ending; “Andantino” is an expansive and romantic male-female pas de deux. Dance Review: Robbins and Balanchine Cleanse the Palate at City Ballet 2013-05-29T21:44:32Z Tom Buchanan doesn't believe that Gatsby went to Oxford because he wears a lurid pink suit. What makes The Great Gatsby great? 2013-05-03T18:00:00Z Lovecraft, opened the concert with an extravagance that offers proof of the survival of the orchestrational panache of the French tradition: its lurid lushness and sly squiggles, brassy explosions and sensual strings. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Taste of Holiday Bounty 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z But as squirm-inducing as some of the segments can be, the series doesn't appear interested in creating a sense of lurid wish fulfillment. '7 Deadly Sins' review: Morgan Spurlock's latest goes to extremes 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z What else could explain his subjects’ beseeching eyes, their attenuated bodies, the strange distortions of space in his paintings and their bold, at times almost lurid, coloring? Perspective | Compassion. Claustrophobia. Originality. Why El Greco inspired so many great modern artists. 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z But the story of the "oxygen tent" was a sham, invented by Jackson himself with various associates who were tasked with adding lurid detail. Michael Jackson: King of hypochondria 2010-04-23T23:14:00Z Yet in the lurid world of “GOT,” where an episode without a disemboweling would be like “Sex and the City” without cocktails, it’s thematically consistent. George RR Martin says that scene was “always disturbing” 2014-04-22T14:31:00Z His camera style is stodgy, his handling of a delicate subject lurid but not invigorating. The Reasons Why the Oscar Race Is Already Over 2011-01-31T09:15:00Z She told him about the exotic, sometimes lurid, world of modeling, and how she’d been named a Playboy Playmate of the Month in 2006. This Life: The doorbell rang, and a stepdad had to face secrets and tragedy 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z Around 2007, lurid details of Mexican drug violence scared off many Americans, and reports of police corruption, mass killings and death squads helped spur a nose dive in tourism. Killings stir fears in Mexican community 2011-12-28T06:01:00Z Ultimately “Hater” wields a rapier no sharper than its inspiration’s, but its lurid overstatement nicely twists the blade. | 'Hater': An Updated ?Misanthrope? at the Ohio Theater 2010-07-22T22:11:00Z But the cheap shots are few and far between; for the most part, this absorbing film stays focused on the substantive issues raised by the lurid case. Review: ‘Thought Crimes: The Case of the Cannibal Cop’ on HBO 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z The complicated back story about the blackmail plot remains murky and a little melodramatic, focusing as it does on a cache of lurid photos. Critic’s Notebook: Back in Chicago, Michael Shannon and David Schwimmer 2013-08-09T20:44:12Z Traditional tabloids place the lurid limelight on celebrities and public figures. West Elm Caleb and the rise of the TikTok tabloid 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z Such behaviour was to be on lurid display in the Nixon White House. Ideas man 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z What could have been a cloying hagiography or a lurid warts-and-all exposé is instead a balanced, focused and compelling study of a man of depth and individuality. The spy who came in from the cold 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z She is made into a lurid tabloid figure, an exotic exception to the common deadbeat father. Mommy Is Going Away for a While 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z For most of the 2010s, 20-something men in weathered baseball caps injected the genre with an almost comical masculinity — brawny, hip-hop-inflected sounds, lyrics that treated women as objects of lurid attention. In Country Music, Nice Guys Finish First (for Now) 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z A light Robbins pastiche for six young dancers all in sneakers, dressed by Harriet Jung and Reid Bartelme in lurid combinations of pink, yellow and blue, “Easy” imitates the caricature-type emphasis of early Robbins. Review: City Ballet Salutes Jerome Robbins, a Master of 2 Realms 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z It wasn’t just that Russell had a fondness for lurid subjects; it was the juice he extracted from them. The Master of Cinematic Vulgarity: Ken Russell (1927-2011) 2011-11-28T20:17:50Z The colors were all vivid, from the golden sweep of “Jupiter” to the lurid nighttime blues of “Neptune.” Review: Planets, Tubas and Febrile Strings With the New York Philharmonic 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z The screens revealed the interior of a “city apartment” awash in lurid colors and Sobchak racing through her paces. Ksenia Sobchak, the Stiletto in Putin’s Side 2012-07-03T21:56:57Z Given the column inches devoted to what, essentially, seem to be little more than marketing gimmicks, lurid food and drink is something we are likely to see more of. Gïk Live – the wine that really could make you feel blue in the face 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Though he changed that to the more indie-sounding Lost River, the movie still goes for the feverish and lurid. Is Ryan Gosling's Lost River Crazy Brilliant or Just Plain Crazy? 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z With its mixture of heavy scientific detail and lurid plot twists, it vaguely resembles a mid-career novel. The Heart Broke In by James Meek - review 2012-08-24T07:00:01Z With its red lighting and Hades-like smoke and fog, the lurid look of “The Big Bang” suggests a tacky disco inferno. | 'The Big Bang': A Taste for Psychedelics and the God Particle 2011-05-12T23:22:16Z The film “is at once a lurid true-crime chronicle and a coming-out story,” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times in October. On Video: Buster Keaton’s Talkie ‘Free and Easy’ Comes to DVD 2014-03-23T19:49:40Z Newton’s sense of louche is his signature; his luxuriant surfaces insinuate a lurid underworld of perversion. | Helmut Newton at the Grand Palais 2012-03-28T19:40:30Z After the lurid histrionics of his recent Welcome to New York, Ferrara appears to have harnessed his wilder impulses. Venice film festival: thunder clouds and silver linings 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z The plot, which involves an all-the-way-to-the-top kidnapping conspiracy catering to the depravities of powerful men, is lurid and preposterous, an episode of “Law and Order SVU” amplified with self-conscious “Taxi Driver” overtones. Review: Joaquin Phoenix Is a Melancholy Avenger in ‘You Were Never Really Here’ 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z In Ms. Bailey’s operatically gruesome vision, enhanced by elaborate digital imagery suggesting a lurid video game set in ancient Rome, depraved humanity gets the flawed, venal and corrupt leaders it deserves. | 'Julius Caesar': Cry Havoc! The Blood Sport Called Politics 2011-07-31T22:23:03Z Meanwhile, a busy “static” of lurid hues — bright magenta, lemon yellow — infringes upon its upper and lower peripheries. February gallery shows ponder architectural possibilities 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z Sex and texts, sport and celebrity, claim and counter-claim, even, in a tragic sub-plot, the death of a police officer: it was a trial with conflicting, lurid details. NBA star Derrick Rose and friends cleared of rape charges 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z He simply no longer fits as the kind of stock baddie from sensational “penny bloods” that might take up such a lurid pseudonym; he’s clawed his way into the most painful crevices of humanity. Disillusioned with Game of Thrones and True Detective? Try Penny Dreadful 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z If you want a sideshow, Rihanna will gladly give you a more lurid one than what you’ve been cringing in anticipation of. Critic's Notebook: Rihanna’s Album ‘Unapologetic’ Makes Most of Her Talent 2012-11-20T18:20:20Z And his animated narrative sets contemporary immigrant experience in a lurid and revealing light. ‘Little Failure’: misery, then mastery for Gary Shteyngart 2014-01-09T21:07:21Z Dr. Blackwell was shadowed by the lurid specter of another female “physician,” known as Madame Restell, who peddled herbal remedies and surgical intervention for the oldest problem women faced. The Determined Siblings Who Became America’s First Women Doctors 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z The Clintons had more than their fair share of lurid scandal, but they nevertheless found a way to preserve the privacy of their daughter, Chelsea, when she was growing up in the White House fishbowl. Television Review: ‘1600 Penn,’ on NBC, With Pullman, Gad and Elfman 2013-01-09T18:12:03Z In real life, as in the film, the tabloid media can’t wait to describe the home of every perfect couple as a lurid crime scene, haunted by cruelty, infidelity, and wickedness. What “Gone Girl” Is Really About 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z A little research, meanwhile, reveals that the sampled conversation is actually from a particularly lurid episode of the TV show “NYPD Blue.” Depth on the Dance Floor: The Music of DJ Sprinkles 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z A particular treat is her ear for lurid local myths. Mapping history 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Much of Investigation Discovery’s fare is lurid and lowbrow, but “Hate in America” is an exception. ‘American Denial’ and ‘Hate in America’ Look at Unflattering Truths 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z The plot — its lurid flights counterbalanced by the wholesome devotion of Bob and Mary — swiftly deals with complex, compelling ideas about familial expectation and duty. A Black Composer’s Intense Opera Gets a Rare Staging 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z It’s that the lurid core of our imaginative lives is best kept secret. What “Gone Girl” Is Really About 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Here’s the thing about “Crimson Peak,” which is lurid and ghastly and immensely enjoyable and frequently spectacular and also thinner and less substantial than it wants to be, like a meal eaten in a dream. “Evil Dead” meets “Jane Eyre” in Guillermo del Toro’s “Crimson Peak,” a lurid meta-Gothic ghost story 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z For all its lurid trappings — including nudity — this show really is a traditional American musical: a heartwarming tale of misfits who create a community by putting on a show. New in L.A. theater: 'Herland,' 'Harvey' and the porn musical 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z The lurid court case portrayed the crimes as a part of a satanic ritual carried out by alienated young men who dressed in black and listened to heavy-metal rock. Movie Review: ‘West of Memphis,’ by Amy Berg, on ‘West Memphis Three’ 2012-12-24T21:26:52Z Bailey obliged, and in this 900-page history, he delves into the artistic, intellectual and occasionally lurid private life of one of the country’s most famous writers, tracing his childhood and five-decade career. 15 New Books to Watch For in April 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z At every junction of this roaring A-road sprouts a steroidal tower, each clad in ever more lurid colours, transforming the street into a gauntlet of competing ambitions. London's Olympics legacy faces early disqualification 2013-07-21T18:30:01Z That speech is played for creeps, and like much of “The Alienist,” it would be twice as good with half as much lurid, Grand Guignol underlining. Review: ‘The Alienist’ Is a Period Piece That Missed Its Moment 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z Disasters at sea have provided audiences with lurid thrills for hundreds of years, if not thousands. ‘Nowhere’ Review: Sensationalism at Sea 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z But in one typically lurid and suggestive scene, Jordan folds down Nick’s collar and finds “a dark bite mark from a wide mouth.” Review | Nghi Vo’s demonic adaptation of ‘The Great Gatsby’ might be — gasp — jazzier than the original 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Munch's paintings were haunting, lurid, swooning and strange … a detail from Ashes, 1925. Best art exhibitions of 2012, No 2 – Edvard Munch at Tate Modern 2012-12-20T13:38:40Z At this early part of the documentary, these lurid online videos aren't shown to the viewer, but the incidents are related clinically and quickly in order to establish the horror without fully reliving it. In Netflix’s compelling ”Don't F**k with Cats,” cat lovers unite to capture an online murderer 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z And depending on your opinion of Mark Zuckerberg, you could see Fincher’s The Social Network as a less lurid take on the same story. David Fincher's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: Thanks Very Much, But You Really Didn't Have To 2011-12-20T15:00:53Z His lurid autobiography of drug addiction and sex called "Dandy in the Underworld" was variously described as amusing and revolting. British dandy, author Horsley dies: report 2010-06-18T16:41:00Z And “Revenge” leaves a lurid, punchy afterimage, an impression somewhere between righteous delight and quivering revulsion. Review: In ‘Revenge,’ the Trophy Turns Hunter 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z Everyone in Lee Daniels' lurid, jittery melodrama "The Paperboy" seems to stand too close to each other; the sweat-slicked characters shimmer in the Florida sun, moving as if the air is thick. Meandering 'Paperboy' misses the mark 2012-10-11T20:07:05Z But I’ve said it before: if anybody ever made the kind of drama that True Blood’s credits implied–lurid, sultry, haunted with passion and supernatural ecstasy–I would watch the hell out of that show. When Bad Title Sequences Happen to Good Shows (and Vice Versa) 2012-07-18T13:36:35Z Of course, this will take away any trace of lurid interest for you readers, and I risk boring the hell out of most of you. Learning 'Lear': Put It In the Blog! 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Nor was the shot accompanied by any lurid, career-sinking claims of sexual impropriety. Guard that property! Our reaction to Chris Evans' nudes reveals the remarkable power of Captain America 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z The book's lurid subtitle, "Nazis, the CIA ... " etc., suggests that the National Socialists, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Muslim Brotherhood are "linked," to use the sloppy newspaper word. 'A Mosque in Munich': Agents of influence turn a German mosque into a center of radical Islam 2010-06-02T22:45:00Z Both filmmakers had reservations about this lurid topic, but also felt there was the possibility of finding “a deeply interesting and personal story there.” “The Wrong Light”: Sex, lies and the story of Mickey Choosetha 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z But in one of the film’s most lurid twists, Grant’s sexual interests turn out to be not just perverted, but evil: a “Lolita complex of no mean proportions,” as The New York Times put it. Like ‘Mommie Dearest’? Stream These Movies for Pride Month 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Despite the fact that his movies featured stars like Ida Lupino and Orson Welles, and despite the eye-catching apocalyptic titles and lurid posters, he generated many flops, a few minor hits and largely negative reviews. Bert I. Gordon, Auteur of Mutant Monster Movies, Dies at 100 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z Its narrative tone, though, is lurid to the max. Dead Sex Kittens: Farewell to Three Icons of Movie Eroticism 2011-02-10T08:10:00Z I rarely have the feeling that my questioner is satisfied by my reply; Dickens the domestic monster has become part of the intellectual landscape, along with some increasingly lurid speculations about his sex life. The Great Charles Dickens Scandal by Michael Slater - review 2012-11-23T22:55:02Z Which was more terrifying: singing on “Nashville” or enduring some of the lurid twists of “American Horror Story”? ArtsBeat: Emmy Nominees: Connie Britton of ‘Nashville’ 2013-07-18T18:45:25Z In Act 3, against a set reminiscent of a Marbella nightclub, he looks eerily like Gary Glitter, and the lurid mise-en-scène actively subverts the plot. Swan Lake ? review 2011-01-30T00:05:59Z With relief came hallucinations, the most lurid of which was the woman with green tusks who used to appear to him at bedtime. The writer who liberated the mystery story from drafty castles 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z In one, she feeds her own hunger, flopped on a kitchen floor in undies and a lurid band shirt, a bowl of nosh beside her on the tiles. Books Of Style: Surprising Histories, With Drinks 2011-12-16T22:36:27Z Set in Chicago, the play revels in lurid incident and outlandish humor. Critic’s Notebook: Back in Chicago, Michael Shannon and David Schwimmer 2013-08-09T20:44:12Z He favors lurid, borderline-ugly colors and finds a tone that somehow erases the distinction between deadpan comedy and overwrought melodrama. Movie Review: Todd Solondz’s ‘Dark Horse’ Stars Jordan Gelber 2012-06-07T21:43:01Z They may not have the lurid illustrations associated with penny dreadfuls, but the supplementary visual assets on their websites are arguably just as visually arresting — and necessary to the format. Penny dreadfuls were the true crime podcasts of their time 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z But it wasn’t all grisly accidents and lurid crime scenes. A Portrait of Weegee That Captures the Man and the Myth in Full 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z “I’m excited to work with you, Jeanie King,” says her therapist, and the scenes between them are electric and unsettling: Is Jeanie being healed or exploited for her lurid background? A Bloody Crime, a Mysterious Disappearance and the Long After 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z Suddenly “lying was funny, and hatred was funny, and bigotry was funny,” and the entire country becomes “a lurid graphic novel.” Salman Rushdie’s Prose Joins the Circus in ‘The Golden House’ 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z Krauze insisted the book is far more than a lurid tale. With a Violent Debut, He Reveals a London That Is Rarely Seen 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z But it gets waylaid in spectacle and lurid melodrama. Review: ‘Ratched’ Flies Out of the Cuckoo’s Nest and Into the Mire 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Yet “Virgin Territory” isn’t lurid or easily embarrassed. Summer TV: Quick takes on ‘The Last Ship,’ ‘Legends’ and more A fireball to the face is just one of the lurid deaths in the new horror film “Silent Night,” opening Nov. 30. Ho, Ho, Homicide: Killer Santa Is Back in ‘Silent Night’ 2012-11-25T01:00:06Z The most lurid corner of the Internet is not a new dating app or a fetish site. Money Diaries, Where Millennial Women Go to Judge One Another’s Spending Habits 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z An ad broadcasting subscriptions for Time Warner cable feels lurid, with dollar signs cast over the woman's figure. Object Lesson: Robert Heinecken's filtered television at the Hammer 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Writing about the lurid, no-detail-too-excruciating memoir for The Washington Post, Charles Kaiser asked: “Can we believe all of this? Half?” A Starring Role for Hollywood’s Sexual Zelig 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Surely because it exerts its lurid appeal on multiple levels. Critic?s Notebook: The Many Faces of ?Black Swan,? Deconstructed 2011-02-09T23:04:37Z His camera style is stodgy, and his handling of a delicate subject lurid but not invigorating. After SAG Awards, Why Oscar-Winner Guessing Game Is Over 2011-02-21T14:05:00Z He was moved by them in much the same inchoate way that Tom Bissell, in his new book, “Extra Lives,” is moved by another lurid and often frowned-upon art form: video games. Books of The Times: ?Extra Lives?: Tom Bissell?s Video Game Manifesto 2010-06-22T22:53:00Z This is a lurid crackup novel, too heavy-handed for my tastes, but I suspect a lot of readers will respond to it. Tove Ditlevsen’s Fiction Is Bleak and Claustrophobic — Mostly in a Good Way 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z The title of the gratifying, lurid new play by Aleshea Harris, which opened on Sunday night at the newly renovated Soho Rep Theater, is “Is God Is.” Review: ‘Is God Is’ Reinvents the Good, the Bad and the Ugly 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z The colors often have a warm sunset glow — if not a lurid afterglow. Art Review: Calder and Tanguy, Together Again at L&M Arts 2010-05-13T21:39:00Z Although the singer was adored by fans worldwide for her unique voice and style, praise for her singing was often eclipsed by lurid headlines about her destructive relationships and erratic behavior. Coroner: Amy Winehouse died from 'very large quantity of alcohol' 2011-10-26T15:32:01Z “Heli,” which won the directing prize in Cannes last year, is at once extreme and unspectacular, a grisly and lurid slice-of-life drama. ‘Heli’ Paints a Harrowing Picture of Mexico 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Because Millers Kill is a small town, the mystery unfolds like a classic country whodunit, complete with lurid back stories for all the righteous grown-ups. Stashed in the Marsh, Left in the Road: Victims Pile Up in Four New Crime Novels 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z A politician gets caught in a scandal over his lurid extramarital escapades. ‘Tails of Wasps’: a politician stung by his own infidelity 2014-04-12T03:23:29Z By slow degrees, the family is dragged down to the point of starvation, depicted with lurid detail in the gruesome epilogue. L.A. Opera's 'Dog Days' goes out with a bang, not a whimper 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Fantasy has a way of casting a lurid light on unbearable realities. “The Intern” Is a Very Strange Workplace Fantasy 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z Then, although I knew reading it would be painful, I spent a year fighting for the right to see the police report detailing the lurid details of his final moments. Hearing His Voice Changed Everything 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Its appeal is that of a crafty short story with lurid topical resonance. Review: Jennifer Haley’s ‘The Nether’ Explores the Dark Side of the Web 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z If anyone could sell the mayor’s gruesome destiny, it would be Mr. Lloyd, but even he is overmatched by the lurid challenge the writers give him. In ‘Blood Lake,’ Animal Planet Dives Into B-Horror Genre 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Infanticide is the lurid subject of Samuel Barber’s “Medea’s Meditation and Dance of Vengeance.” BSO, Marin Alsop usher in new year with flashy, energetic concert at Strathmore 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z There’s been no lack of docu-reality crime shows since it went off the air in 2006, but none has had the same combination of regional flavor, hard-boiled attitude and lurid, literate narration. ArtsBeat Blog: Channel Surfing: 'Hidden City' 2011-12-06T21:14:27Z In the United States, “Women’s Barracks” was condemned in 1952 by the House Select Committee on Current Pornographic Materials, which found the book’s offending passages too lurid to quote in its official proceedings. Tereska Torrès, 92, Writer of Lesbian Fiction, Dies 2012-09-25T14:41:36Z Mr. King’s lurid, hurried production embraces the script’s verve, while denying it any real weight or consequence. Theater Review: ‘Fabulous Miss Marie’ Drinks and Dances at Castillo Theater 2014-05-07T21:36:15Z The spread includes plates of nuts, salads, pastries, bowls of fruit, and bottles of vodka and lurid soft drinks. My travels: Chris Alexander in Uzbekistan 2011-01-01T00:04:06Z Inside the suitcase in "Hi Shok," for instance, a crouched female nude and a small arsenal of weapons are seen in the lurid hues of a color-film negative. Review: Seattle exhibits show photographs in their altered states 2010-08-26T20:51:00Z A supernatural story that is neither sensational nor lurid. ‘The Rim of Morning’ review: Two supernatural novels by William Sloane 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Punchy abstract color briefly holds sway in the second gallery, where 10 large, bright “Photoshop Gradient Demonstrations” evoke a kind of lurid cross between Color Field painting mistiness and Op Art harshness. Art Review: A Muse in the Machine: Click. Create. 2011-05-26T14:55:57Z Then, of course, there’s “Songs My Mother Taugh Me,” the sly, lurid autobiography that appeared just before Manso’s book in what appeared to be an attempt to steal that author’s thunder. Review: ‘Brando’s Smile: His Life, Thought, and Work,’ by Susan L. Mizruchi Her answer was a simple sweater, painted with a lurid stripe of gold. Fashion Review: Jason Wu, Rag & Bone and Suno Show at New York Fashion Week 2014-02-10T00:14:58Z These bicoastal rockers didn’t need the lurid back story, however; the record would have been as impressively expansive if they had claimed to have recorded it in an Arby’s parking lot. Pop and Rock Listings for April 19-25 2013-04-18T21:50:57Z Reduced to a bald plot summary his story is a lurid and familiar tale of a desperate and disturbed mind — the kind regularly anatomized on “Law & Order” and “CSI” episodes. | 'Misterman' : Cillian Murphy in ?Misterman? by Enda Walsh - Review 2011-12-05T03:01:06Z The twisted, true story of Andrew Cunanan’s 1997 killing spree exists in whatever dark sliver of cultural space remains between lurid and sordid. Review | FX’s ‘Assassination of Gianni Versace’ reaches for beauty but can’t find meaning 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z The terrific art direction warps the bubble-gum iconography into something haunting and lurid. Review: In ‘Riverdale,’ Archie Is Hot and Haunted 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z “Mack, Beth” is a skeevy update of “Macbeth,” with slimy corporate climbers drinking hard and executing a lurid blackmail with cellphone photos. Bites from Shakespeare’s banquet 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z This repellent and magnetic play, which opened on Monday night at the Acorn Theater in a New Group production, is way too lurid to be gray. | 'Burning' : Thomas Bradshaw?s ?Burning? at Acorn Theater - Review 2011-11-15T03:18:36Z There was not a shrinking violet in sight, though there were some rather lurid color combinations that may read better on social media than in real life. The Pussy Hat Comes to the Runway 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z It’s country gospel gone lurid, and it seems to rise up out of a nap. Music: Revisiting ?Main St.,? Rethinking the Myth 2010-05-20T03:39:00Z Yet La Comay also relishes replaying lurid videos such as one showing the hanging of the late Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Puerto Rico enthralled by cheeky newscaster puppet 2012-10-19T12:38:09Z His best films as a director express a genuine sensibility: a somber, apocalyptic vision belied by some of the more lurid titles in his filmography. DVDs: The Apocalypse Served Straight Up 2011-01-30T02:13:01Z Allen Lee Hughes’s lighting, with its blood-red effects, is too obviously lurid for my taste. Review: In ‘Topdog/Underdog,’ Staying Alive Is the Ultimate Hustle 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z The color scheme is lurid, and the camera movements telegraph anxiety. Movie Review | 'Shutter Island': All at Sea, Surrounded by Red Herrings 2010-02-18T15:49:00Z Acquaintances do sometimes ask how he dreams up such lurid stories. Hannibal Lecter’s Creator Cooks Up Something New (No Fava Beans or Chianti) 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z As designed by Parker Lutz, the stage brings to mind a rather lurid, second-rate airport hotel. ‘Sorry Robot,’ a Musical Sci-Fi Noir at New Ohio Theater 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z But once the young adventurer parks on the moon, a lurid landscape called Lunaria, the animation weakens considerably. ‘Over the Moon’ Review: After Loss, a Lunar Adventure 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z But it’s not a lurid part, it’s just a memorable line: “We covet what we see.” Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Sabotaging your brother’s relationship — what would Dr. Lecter say? 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z The result is a lurid and predictable novel — not as disappointing as Ms. Rowling’s first post-Harry Potter venture, “The Casual Vacancy,” but only because of Robin and Strike. Review: ‘Career of Evil,’ J.K. Rowling’s Grisly Crime Novel 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z Equal parts ribald humor, lurid emotion and raw elegy, the Writer's accounts pull a plethora of familiar Williams motifs into play against everyone's crushing loneliness, “a sort of soft, awful groaning in the walls.” Lonely eccentrics, adrift in the French Quarter in Tennessee Williams' 'Vieux Carré' 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z The 1963 scandal, which led to Profumo's resignation and disgrace, attracted widespread public interest as lurid details of the ménage à trois emerged. Mandy Rice-Davies, key figure in UK 1960s sex scandal, dies aged 70 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z But that doesn’t affect the show’s hard-driving momentum, carried by Ms. Nash’s pop-rock score, or the lurid familiarity of its plot. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Peter and the Starcatcher’ and ‘Murder Ballad’ 2013-05-23T02:00:01Z I'd say describing the plot is tricky but the fact you don't know what's going on adds to the lurid strangeness. Zombies? Mogwai know the score 2013-02-18T06:00:00Z The more lurid moments are presented here with neither a wink nor heavy breathing. Theater Review: ‘The Best of Everything,’ Based on Rona Jaffe’s Novel 2012-10-07T21:51:27Z Both movies revert to their share of lurid scenes of addiction and artistic self-destruction, and both liberally allow for fictional characters and situations. Why music biopics so often fall flat 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Beyond the lurid “Lady Macbeth,” critics have come to see even Shostakovich’s most triumphal musical gestures as mere surface, hiding the cunning silences of a dissident. Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z It bursts into the centre of a huge exhibition space to reveal the lurid hues of an oversized bunch of Jeff Koons tulips in front of an array of austere monumental paintings by Christopher Wool. Open doors 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z If these works are lush, lurid wedding cakes, heavy on the frosting, then “The Rite of Spring,” which closed the concert, is simultaneously the cake and the knife that cuts it. Critic’s Notebook: Bard Music Festival Celebrates ‘Stravinsky and His World’ 2013-08-12T21:49:21Z You pile on even more gore, violence and questionable language for a deranged sequel that is just a little too lurid for its own good. Every Jason Statham film - ranked! 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z If the show had a mission statement, it was to restore the humanity of women so often portrayed as monsters or as lurid victims. Emily Nussbaum: “Orange Is the New Black” and “Louie” Reviews 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z Screen Daily said it was a “film drunk on its own trashy, lurid aesthetic”. Vanessa Paradis revels in gay porn director role in Cannes slasher 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z During his early days as a radio DJ, he once bungled a request, played Tony Bennett instead of Frank Sinatra, and went on to receive lurid death threats from a listener in King's Lynn. 'Bin Laden doesn't do jokes' 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z It's an ominous final image, but equally, considering how keen The Returned was to show us those other attacks in lurid detail, it feels a little ambiguous. The Returned recap: series one, episode four – Victor 2013-06-30T21:10:00Z Lorraine's lurid history could have been the stuff of an arresting drama. Clio Barnard's The Arbor is out of lip-synch with reality 2010-10-25T10:06:00Z If there are any barbarians in this series, they are the denizens of Europe, who are nearly always depicted as racists, conquerors, looters, slave owners, colonialists and originators of the lurid “male gaze” in art. Review: Anodyne ‘Civilizations’ 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z But the show is oddly paced, and in some places almost comically lurid and hammy: At times it seems as if it were made in the 1980s. Television Review: ‘The Assets,’ a Mini-Series About Aldrich Ames on ABC 2014-01-01T21:59:51Z With his book Mr. Morris is reopening a lurid, deep wound that preoccupied much of the nation for years after the crime took place. Errol Morris Takes on MacDonald Murder Case 2012-08-29T12:00:21Z It's got sleazy characters wallowing in bloody crimes and sloppy sex, all of which seems even more lurid during a steamy summer in the racially divided Florida swamps of the late 1960s. Capsule reviews of new movie releases 2012-10-03T20:03:15Z Considered against the expanding subgenre of trope-laden streaming documentaries about troubling true crime, “Victim/Suspect” seems, at first glance, to conform to type — particularly during its opening waterfall of lurid video and audio clips. ‘Victim/Suspect’ Review: When the Accuser Becomes the Accused 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z One of the key figures is Will Hays, whom the film industry hired to clean up Hollywood’s act in the wake of lurid scandals in the early 1920s. New plays by Ayad Akhtar, Quiara Alegria Hudes and Joe DiPietro highlight La Jolla Playhouse season 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Later paintings of the Flight into Egypt or the Pietà appear almost amateurish, with unconvincing drapery and lurid color. Mysteries of a Venetian Perfectionist Revealed in Washington 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z The interior contains an introduction by "100 Bullets" writer Brian Azzarello; a lengthy foreword by comics publisher, historian and editor Denis Kitchen; and 24 representative stories from "Crime Does Not Pay"at its most lurid. Comics: 'Crime Does Not Pay' rewards with hours of fun 2011-10-26T17:14:04Z Sometimes a unicorn-flavored product will reference the shape of a unicorn, but more often than not, it will lean on lurid food dye to make its point. What does unicorn flavor actually taste like? 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z Our reviewer, Patrick McGrath, called the novel “a lurid and original work of horror,” which evokes “the disintegrating character of this sweltering, unhygienic and claustrophobic household of locked doors and repressed emotions.” New in Paperback: ‘Black Detroit,’ ‘Goodbye, Vitamin’ 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z There are unmistakable gothic elements in Ewa’s tale, which is to some extent a lurid fable of wronged innocence, irrational cruelty and wild coincidence set in a landscape of betrayal, brutality and corruption. ‘The Immigrant,’ With Joaquin Phoenix and Marion Cotillard 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z He leaves behind a short but influential career that included publicizing the lurid Twitter photo that brought down Rep. Andrew Breitbart, 1969-2012 2012-03-01T16:24:15Z Cats get thrown about, lurid jelly tureens wobble across the screen. Venice Biennale: how much is that fox in the mini-mart? 2013-06-02T18:30:01Z This narrative begins slowly, but it quickly picks up steam and becomes a sleek, dramatic, authentically lurid story fueled by candid fraternal rivalry. Books Of the Times: ‘The Splendid Things We Planned,’ Blake Bailey’s Memoir 2014-02-23T22:48:06Z On Day 6, the ship was deserted, with the thousands of passengers going to stare at lurid purple tanzanite in Cozumel. The Cruise Issue: On the World?s Largest Cruise Ship, the Sea Is an Afterthought 2011-02-14T16:19:28Z The darker side of sport makes lurid headlines around the world, whether it's drugs, cheating, or the way some men treat women. 'Boys are never taught not to rape' 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z Much modern opera, particularly by Americans, is highly melodramatic and written in a style not that far removed from the sensationalist and lurid post-Wagnerian style of verismo. Dudamel conducts 'Cav' and 'Pag' at the Hollywood Bowl 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z But the king’s lurid scandal, which takes up much of the play’s first act, has nothing to do with what follows. ‘Pericles’ Review: Shakespeare in the Blender 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z The vamps of "True Blood" and the gangsters of "The Sopranos" fascinate us with their lurid exploits. Do a "Glee" star's photos glamorize domestic abuse? 2011-09-06T15:07:00Z During the emotionally lurid “trust exercises” he runs in class, he forces students into unwelcome catharses regarding their relationships and friendships. For the Performing Arts Students in This Novel, Drama Is a Way of Life 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Taking her subject as a known quantity, she opens her book with a sentimental description of a lurid incident from Nesbit’s childhood that haunted the author for the rest of her life. The Pioneering British Socialist Who Revolutionized Children’s Literature 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z When she could, Parker moved from the salad bar to red-meat roles in melodramas that earn the adjective “lurid.” Eleanor Parker: More Than Just the Sound of Music Baroness 2013-12-11T03:11:54Z Complicating her job further is the fact that “Euphoria” revolves around lurid transgression — lust, substance abuse and violence, in particular — and scenes must be described in detail during the music approval process. Why the ‘Euphoria’ Teens Listen to Sinead O’Connor, Tupac and Selena 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z Saul, for instance, is a founder of Pop Art whose lush and sometimes lurid works include "Donald Duck Crucifixion" and "Sex Deviant Being Executed." Streep would like to thank the (arts) academy 2010-04-12T15:16:00Z But this isn’t a memoir, it’s a dissertation — a weirdly dry one, given its lurid topic — on how the occult has informed a half-century or so of popular music. Book review: ‘Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll” You also might go completely off book and try a rich brocade or jacquard, a plush velvet, or some loopy Mongolian lamb in a lurid color. When It Comes to Cameras and Wallpaper, Bold Is Better 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z “The Wolf and the Watchman” is exceedingly grim and often grisly, but, in the elegant translation by Ebba Segerberg, it’s never lurid. Review | For Stieg Larsson fans, a new voice — and an even darker side of Sweden 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Together, they travel north, where, in lurid fashion, the boy’s dream comes true. For Norm Macdonald, facts are just starting points for comedy 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z His first novel was “Finn,” a gripping, often lurid tale about Huckleberry Finn’s pap. Review | Christmas comes early in Jon Clinch’s ‘Marley,’ a clever riff on ‘A Christmas Carol’ 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Even the most lurid forms of behavior are accorded the same apotheosizing gloss. Review: ‘Jerry Springer,’ Sacred and Profane, Triumphantly Sings Again 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z She may have been drawn to Ariel as a girl, but it’s Prospero’s recognition of Caliban that comes to mind as she finishes telling her lurid tale: “This thing of darkness I / Acknowledge mine.” 'Penny Dreadful' Recap: Vanessa's Sin and Obsession 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z As it turns out, though, prerequisites for a buzzworthy prestige true crime aren’t substantively different from that of lurid tabloid crime coverage. Who killed Sister Cathy? That is — and isn’t — the story of Netflix’s latest true crime show 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z He was perfectly fine, but the lurid and gratuitous SVU was a strange place to try to share an affirming message. Joe Biden's Cameo on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Played Up the Show's Flaws 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Dressed in black trousers, shirt and jacket and lurid purple socks, he cut a trim figure during our interview. Terry Jones: ‘I’ve got dementia. My frontal lobe has absconded’ 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z “Conditions of My Parole” balances the lurid rap-rock of the title track with skittish synthscapes; the group just released a simmering follow-up, “Money Shot.” Pop & Rock Listings for Nov. 13-19 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z My favourite part, however, was when brave Jonah saves Folly from her lurid brother. The Phenomenals: a Tangle of Traitors by F.E Higgins - review 2013-05-10T08:00:00Z To the literary biographer, binges and benders are a godsend – a chance to recount lurid anecdotes under the guise of earnest psychoanalytic enquiry. Why do writers drink? 2013-07-20T07:00:14Z His bizarre harmonic explorations, along with his attraction to lurid or mystical subject matter, could get him into trouble. Why music from 1594 still moves us in 2016: The deep meaning of 'Tears of St. Peter' 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z One of the best stories, “Good Monks,” makes use of a local landmark: an abandoned lime pit — desolate, lurid, ruined — known as the “Lost Planet.” Stories That Look Askance at the American Midwest 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Though the Bender clan is a familiar one in the annals of serial killer lore, the most lurid details we know about them may be inaccurate, thanks to the embellishments of 19th-century newspapers. Serial Killers, Bank Robbers and H.M.S. Bounty Mutineers 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z But he also scandalized the celebrated in his lurid tell-all book, “Hollywood Babylon.” Kenneth Anger, 96, Dies; Experimental Filmmaker Left a Pop Culture Legacy 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z It is louder, bolder and more lurid than the original, and also more boring. Television Review: ‘The Bridge’ Adapts a Scandinavian TV Crime Series 2013-07-09T20:28:57Z The combination of jealous lovers and lurid deaths, the final confrontation between truth and illusion – all these are too unwieldy to translate into ballet terms. Northern Ballet: The Great Gatsby – review 2013-03-06T12:53:52Z The stories are legion and lurid: Gauguin was what tactful obituarists call a "colourful" character. The Classroom Experiment 2010-09-27T05:45:00Z It is characterized by an insistent lack of naturalism, its almost lurid color and its melodramatic theme. ‘The Red Shoes’ Takes the Stage 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z We see the girls’ illusions crumble as they consider the common ground between lurid sexual exploitation and quieter, more insidious predation. A Bold Concert of Songs and a Potent Play Leave Audiences Abuzz 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Those strenuously lurid elements made you wonder whether Mitchell had pushed as far as he could, creatively — whether he had done all the genuinely innovative things he had it in him to do. David Mitchell Brings His Novelistic High Jinks to the Swinging ’60s 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z The first essay is a knockout, a lurid red heart wrapped in barbed wire. A Florida of Sun, Sky, Sea and Mind 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z “Jeanne du Barry,” in which Depp plays King Louis XV of France, is the actor’s first major film role since a lurid and contentious defamation trial last year. The festival chooses a divisive opener: a Johnny Depp film. 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z His mild manner seems at odds with the lurid violence of crime novels. How to Catch a Killer in China: Another Chinese Crime Novel Goes Global 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z The exploitation boom of the 70s moved Nazi fiction into more lurid territory, gratuitous gore and supple flesh the order of the day. War is hell: Overlord and the history of battle-set horror movies 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z "What, in Syria?" replied Palin, who will be seen at one point in the show wearing a lurid tiger print jacket surrounded by a bevy of scantily clad dancers. Jagger helps launch Python gigs 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z Maybe, by accident, “The Americans” is offering us a lurid reflection of the Trump-and-Russia imbroglio. Who Is Loving “The Americans”? 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z And if there's less lurid self-harm and girl-on-girl action in the Royal's version, you do get to see Sarah Lamb's port de bras. Gobo. Digital Glossary ? review 2011-01-23T00:05:54Z These islands of feeling are clearly drawn in Hall's production, which sets the action against rough brick, iron pillars and lurid sunrises. This Happy Breed; Henry IV, Parts One and Two ? review 2011-07-30T23:05:50Z The play within the novel has the blandly lurid plot of a certain period of children’s literature: Mister Monkey is an orphan, his parents killed by poachers. High Praise for a Novel About an Awful Children’s Musical 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z He scoffed at the accounts of violence as Radical propaganda, the lurid fabrications of abolitionist fanatics. The First Presidential Impeachment 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z Ms. Fast contends that, at around this time, lurid media interest in Jackson’s perceived oddity began to eclipse formal appreciation of his work. Examining Michael Jackson Impersonators and ‘Dangerous’ 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z Gillian Flynn’s bestselling novel “Gone Girl” is a work of impressive engineering that mounts a series of grotesque gargoyles above its entrance, like a medieval cathedral advertising all the lurid sins that require expiation within. “Gone Girl”: A dark marriage drama becomes a “battle-of-the-sexes” debate 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z In five vast halls laid with lurid carpets, smelling of dog and hairspray – two smells I will never again untangle – the best dog in Britain waits. Crufts uncovered: ‘Dog people look like hairdressers with very small clients’ 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z Out of this raw material, Dobbs has carved out something intimate and extraordinary, skillfully chiseling out the details to bring the story to lurid life. ‘King Richard’ Finds Fresh Drama in Watergate 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z They are the only employees who bother to act on their suspicions of Regus, whose plans appear to extend beyond CompWare in lurid and possibly apocalyptic ways. ‘The Consultant’ Review: Silicon Valley Goes to the Devil 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z The show in question is TLC’s “Hoarding: Buried Alive,” a somewhat lurid look at that compulsion. Snowed In? Here's What to Watch; Read; or Listen To. 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z This double-character portrait, rendered in lurid chiaroscuro, takes up almost all the first act of “Sweet Bird.” Theater Review: ‘Sweet Bird of Youth,’ Revived by Goodman Theater 2012-09-25T02:00:18Z Over tooth-loosening bass and an oppressive steel drum, our narrator relates the lurid tale of her erratic husband, whom she discovers has been barking in their basement. 12 Forgotten Classics by Women-Led New Wave Bands 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z With witty nods to Bach and Handel, Bizet and Gershwin, the remarkable score subsumes the oversized passions and preposterous romantic plots of classical opera into a lurid spectacle of American pulp fantasy. Trash TV goes highbrow in ‘Jerry Springer: The Opera’ 2014-01-14T00:50:22Z Then Gervais went missing, sparking lurid speculation on blogs and Twitter. Ricky Gervais's disappearing act sparks Golden Globes conspiracy theories 2011-01-17T10:39:15Z A lurid mix of gore, some sex and moral lessons. Robin Ince's top 10 truly bad books 2010-07-05T13:23:00Z A storm is gathering over the desolate stretch of land where humans look puny in the lurid light that brings out of darkness a crumbling square tower. Auctions: Bring on the Old Masters 2011-02-04T12:00:05Z It’s a common trope in rock histories — a vague, hands-off treatment of lurid behavior — but it’s one worth challenging. How much more is there to know about the Grateful Dead? 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Then, beyond the 300 style dustups and the lurid sex content, it has a nice habit of making you care about the characters. Spartacus: Smarter than you think 2011-03-21T15:12:07Z But all that lurid wizardry isn’t the most radical element of “The Chosen and the Beautiful.” Review | Nghi Vo’s demonic adaptation of ‘The Great Gatsby’ might be — gasp — jazzier than the original 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z The book is lurid and lyrical, a confession wrapped in an account of the societal blight that afflicted America’s black neighborhoods from the Depression to the civil rights era. ‘Street Poison’ review: Why rappers owe a debt to writer Iceberg Slim 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z “That whole thing about blondes is a bit of an exaggeration and a slightly lurid construct,” she said. ‘Hitchcock’ and ‘The Girl’ Remember Alma Reville 2012-11-18T04:13:01Z If the titles don’t dovetail precisely – the earlier title is a bit lurid, the final title quite romantic – they are at least fraternal twins. You can judge a book by its title 2013-04-01T18:27:00Z In some ways a spate of reality-TV shows come closer; there you will see a lurid, discomfiting, yet undeniably powerful take on the trip through abasement and redemption. Arts & Leisure: Wrestling With Recovery Is No Fairy Tale 2011-06-29T12:00:06Z The fight escalates quickly to what, in the hands of another writer, would be a sickeningly lurid moment, but Ms. Boo presents it with devastating understatement. Books of The Times: Katherine Boo?s First Book, ?Behind the Beautiful Forevers? 2012-01-30T23:08:37Z Though the acting in this interpretation is variable, the play still emerges vividly as a singular blend of psychological realism, naturalistic detail and lurid, black-magic-shadowed sensationalism. Theater Review: ?The Witch of Edmonton?: A Supernatural Subject with Human Urges 2011-02-04T17:00:53Z After all, what Douglas’s reporter does is worse than even the lurid nightmares of a misused litigant in the British phone-hacking scandal. Kirk Douglas: why his finest role was as a cynical newspaper hack 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z But for a story that traffics in the lurid notoriety of the Manson murders, “The Girls” is an extraordinary act of restraint. ‘The Girls,’ by Emma Cline: Charles Manson, reimagined 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z In a festival showcasing too many films of timid narrative aspirations and tepid cinematic means, The Paperboy actually has a pulse; the film revels in the lure of the lurid. Pretty Boys Gone Wild, Part 1: Zac Efron in The Paperboy 2012-05-25T16:21:11Z Ravel’s great ballet was languidly painted in polished colors, with a particularly lurid sunrise, but was light on primal, violent lust, even though the New York Choral Artists sang with customary gusto. Michael Tilson Thomas and San Francisco Symphony at Carnegie Hall 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z Ms. Pfahler is the downtown performance artist known for her signature look: naked body painted in lurid colors, dominatrix boots, Kiss-style makeup and giant mass of teased black hair. Art in Review: ?GIVERNY?: E. V. Day and Kembra Pfahler 2012-04-05T21:37:44Z But when it was colour, it was harsh, strong; some would say lurid. Interview: Martin Scorsese 2010-11-21T00:06:00Z Despite its lurid subject “Going Down” is quite old-school, at its core a conventional uninspired fantasy of love conquering all. Movie Review: ?Going Down in La-La Land? Explores World of Gay Pornography 2012-04-20T00:21:26Z His fate would be undignified, his destiny lurid. Inside the Field Museum's hidden flesh-eating beetle room 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z The lurid parts will get all the headlines. Elton John Puts Down in Words How Wonderful (and Weird) Life Has Been 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z It’s far less lurid, but robust, enjoyable and humorous storytelling, nonetheless. Summer 2017's best movies: from Scarlett Johansson's hen night to Morrissey's teen years 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z But he also knows true-crime viewers are tuning in for the more lurid details, and sometimes that gives him pause. In ‘Crime Scene,’ Joe Berlinger Investigates True-Crime Obsession 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z The murder was lurid; the motive seems mundane and not fully explained, and Liannetto’s relationship with a police assistant a little too neat. A Louche Life Set to a Show-Tunes Score 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z Instead, she had a horrific experience while locked in a darkened room for days, she’s now testified years later in lurid detail. Witness says R. Kelly kept her locked up before sex assault 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z There’s a constant self-interrogation at play in both works, as every self-appointed detective weighs their sincere desire to do good against the lurid curiosity to which such subjects can lend themselves. I'll Be Gone in the Dark: the story of the search for the Golden State Killer 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z So begins the autobiography of a feral child who was raised by huge and lurid puppets.” Grab Life By The Sugar Frosted Nutsack 2012-04-11T16:53:05Z In Greek tragedy, the lingering death of Creusa, daughter of the king of Corinth, is one of the most lurid. The Flying Dutchman; Medea – review 2013-02-24T00:07:18Z With its lurid red and brooding villains, the thriller “Triple 9” comes dressed to kill. Review: In ‘Triple 9,’ an Appealing Cast Can’t Rise Above the Violence 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z The sweet-tempered Mr. Yang, 29, seems like a shockingly well-adjusted addition to a show renowned for a lurid history of tortured souls and drug overdoses. Bowen Yang of ‘S.N.L.’ Is a Smash. And a Mensch. 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z Ramsay, filming in lurid reds and unblinking close-ups, lets no one off the hook here; this is truly a domestic horror story, with no easy answers and nobody blameless. 'We Need To Talk About Kevin' is unsettling and sticks with you 2012-03-01T23:08:29Z It’s also, should you happen to be holed up somewhere drinking cocoa right now while you await the kraken invasion, a fabulously lurid read. Pastor: Blame gays for Hurricane Sandy 2012-10-29T18:49:00Z But none have the Dutchman’s lurid intensity and knack for frenzied, high energy set-pieces. The next Paul Verhoeven? I'd buy that for a dollar 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Christie had helped send Kushner’s father, the prominent New Jersey real estate developer Charles Kushner, to prison in a lurid case that involved tax evasion and witness tampering. Chris Christie’s Memoir Praises Trump, but Says, ‘I Told You So’ 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Even by the standards of TV’s most exploitative crime stories, this lurid women-in-peril drama was slimy. The 10 Worst TV Shows of 2014 (That I Watched) 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z I found this lurching between sweet hopefulness on the one hand and lurid pessimism on the other to be bewildering, like a heat wave followed by a blizzard. In ‘The Uninhabitable Earth,’ Apocalypse Is Now 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z In many ways “Cracks” is lurid and rickety. | 'Cracks': At Desolate Girls? School, Diving Teacher Rules Roost 2011-03-17T22:29:06Z I couldn’t get over the disconnect between the stories — dark, violent, often lurid — and the gentle, extremely gracious person who wrote them.” The Child of a Ragged Town Keeps Returning for Inspiration 2011-07-11T15:10:40Z Shot in lurid, gilded tones; pulsing with pop decadence, the film is less an anatomy of authoritarian politics than a gangster movie. | 'The Devil?s Double': Straight From Uday Hussein?s Inner Circle 2011-07-29T00:16:46Z After lurid lighting and miles of shiny fabric, I want to see a temple fall down! Review: A Surprise Tenor Jolts the Met Opera’s ‘Samson’ 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z He was never prosecuted in the New York probe, which led to lurid tabloid coverage and a movie on the Lifetime channel. Robert Durst faces jury for opening statements in 'The Jinx' murder trial 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z Following up on her hit live show “Rock Bottom” and her Comedy Central special “Gynecological Wonder,” she returns with a bottle of chardonnay and a whole new batch of lurid tales. Comedy in NYC This Week 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z All but two of the figures are posed on single-hue expanses that resemble TV or movie green screens — except in a more lurid shade that suggests some kind of corrosive chemical. Review | In the galleries: A rock-and-roll odyssey through sex, race and religion 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z This book’s first essay, in particular, is a knockout, a lurid red heart wrapped in barbed wire. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2017 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z The tropical hibiscus produces some of the most lurid blossoms in the garden — a broad, ruffled, flared collar around a central antenna full of knobbly, nectar-rich protuberances. The sultry plant that will break your heart 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z By denying Nick that crucial role and pushing him aside, Smith asks that we become invested in a set of noir caricatures and their lurid spat simply for its own sake. Review | For ‘Gatsby’ fans, 2021 will be the start of remakes. First up: ‘Nick’ 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z Food Network's lurid Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives performs a rolling survey of the Chicago rib shacks, southern juke joints, metropolitan sub-brasseries and little Korean neighbourhood places of America. TV streaming: six of the best shows 2013-02-16T16:00:00Z But even in less lurid numbers there is often the disquieting sense of children being made to ape pop-culture stereotypes of adult behavior: boys as macho men, girls as sassy flirts. Dance Competitions for Youngsters 2012-09-02T16:24:50Z Still, if much of Welsh’s material is lurid, he tells us a great deal about working-class Edinburgh. Irvine Welsh is back with another brazen novel: ‘A Decent Ride’ 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z In alternating chapters, two female narrators provide the long, lurid and psychologically complex answer. In a Thriller About Girlfriends, Which Femme Is Fatale? 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z They were convicted in 2009 amid lurid headlines calling Knox a she-devil - but an appeal court acquitted the couple two years later after defence lawyers exposed flaws in the original investigation. Amanda Knox reiterates innocence as memoir is published 2013-04-26T12:46:05Z “Shutter Island” divided critics — some said classic, others junk — and engaged audiences with its lurid period atmosphere and its rug-pulling final plot twist. Film: ?Inception? Criticism Raises Questions for Critics 2010-07-23T22:17:00Z They headed toward the Task tables to write down their tasks and toss them in the big Task box, silver on the outside; lurid, reflective red on the inside. Oliver Herring at a Task party at Madison Square Park 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z A de-cozied departure from the books and the original series, this bleak and occasionally comic version, set in Depression-era Los Angeles, follows a lurid single case — the murder and mutilation of a baby. In ‘Perry Mason,’ Matthew Rhys Plays Defense 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z And I’m certainly not Michael Wolff, who basically crashed the Trump party and wrote about it in a lurid but lame way. Writer Greg Olear on “Dirty Rubles”: Trump is “gravest existential threat” to America in... 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z “Shot in lurid, gilded tones; pulsing with pop decadence, the film is less an anatomy of authoritarian politics than a gangster movie,” Mr. Scott wrote in The Times in July. DVD: New on DVD, George Cukor?s ?My Fair Lady? 2011-11-20T02:03:04Z That attack, carried out by an apparent right-wing extremist, had been the subject of grotesque jokes and lurid, baseless speculations from some of his wife’s political enemies. The Responsibility of Watching 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z “Name somebody on the left who is in any way comparable to Donald Trump. Who is lurid on the left?” George Will to Bill Maher: Robert Mueller’s investigation is unconstitutional 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z But while the filmmakers succeed in evoking the queasy, lurid ambiance of Thompson’s hothouse world, they can’t quite figure out how to duplicate his remorseless storytelling skill. | 'The Killer Inside Me': Casey Affleck in Michael Winterbottom?s Adaptation 2010-06-17T22:56:00Z The Sharpe mansion sits on a clay mine that leaches lurid red goo into the pipes, the courtyard and the basement. ‘Crimson Peak,’ a Guillermo del Toro Gothic Romance in High Bloody Style 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z The physical and emotional violence of these bitter-toned, highly stylized, low-budget movies exposed lurid fantasies and social traumas that went unmentioned in the studios’ more prestigious productions. Richard Brody: Women Onscreen in Two Film-Noir Retrospectives 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z Their nefarious rulers and eventful politics volunteer themselves for parody, yet the lurid reality often outpaces satire and renders invention superfluous. I witness 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Ordinarily, our concerns about the unfair compromises of married life seem entirely separate from our unseemly fascination with lurid, violent, Gothic victimization. What “Gone Girl” Is Really About 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Their demons are lurid but also boring, and so are the lives these killers lead. 'The Grim Sleeper' is the story of the South L.A. serial killer and the women who were his victims 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z The drama is built on a pile of abraded glories and lurid wreckage arising from long-assumed, long-unquestioned forms of reckless passion. What to Stream: “Afterglow,” a Melodramatic Spotlight for Julie Christie 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z Emily was known to vacillate between doting indulgence and violent rages; Robert was prone to headaches and excitability, and addicted to the cheap, lurid tales of violence known as “penny bloods”. Boys’ own 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Howarth’s language turns symphonically lurid at such moments: “The lightning crackled above them and the echoes of grunting and whip cracks came whispering through the ravine.” Review | Two Australian boys seek revenge for their parents’ murder in this blood-soaked tale 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z He doesn’t seem likely to get there, but those who enjoy a wild, lurid ride might want to join him. Review: ‘Damnation’ and the Sick Soul of 1930s America 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z These night markets, lurid and busy against the dark mountains and looming double-decker motorways, are a picturesque expression of the city’s charms. Buns and bright lights: the joys of Taiwan's street food 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z It's as slick and cheerfully lurid as you'd expect, but not as relentlessly "youth" as Skins. The best TV for spring 2013 2013-04-01T06:00:39Z One report in Presley's vast FBI file--created and maintained under the decades-long reign of J. Edgar Hoover--described a La Crosse, Wis., show in lurid terms. What the Rise and Fall of Elvis Mean to America 40 Years After His Death 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z It is by turns lurid, humid, florid, languid and stupid, but it is pretty much all id all the time. Movie Review: ‘The Paperboy,’ by Lee Daniels, Stars Nicole Kidman 2012-10-04T12:00:00Z The impact of the “Paradise Lost” films has always had less to do with the facts of the case than with the tastefully lurid Southern-gothic-meets-heavy-metal style in which the story was told. Television Review: ?Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory? on HBO - Review 2012-01-11T23:08:35Z Speaking of mental woe, the political developments of the year have cast lurid lights on the general enterprise of high culture, which fine art peculiarly symbolizes by dint of institutional pomp and commercial extravagance. Art and Us in 2016 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Thanks to its lurid subject matter and its often easy-to-decipher morals, Mr. Bradbury’s work is often taught in middle school. An Appraisal: Ray Bradbury, Who Made Science Fiction Respectable 2012-06-07T02:58:01Z He had read about them in a lurid piece of agitprop published by the British Committee on Alleged German War Outrages, and was passing on the semifake news. World War I — The Quick. The Dead. The Artists. 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Now we learn she translated these beings onto canvas – most grotesquely in a quartet of lurid creatures titled “Journalists.” Hope and Dread Are Infused in ‘Berlin Metropolis’ 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z This seven-minute video brings the lyrics of a song off the director’s first solo album to lurid life. American Reunion: Is There Sex After High School? Hell, Yeah 2012-04-05T15:42:20Z And then, scandal erupted a third time when a lurid photo surfaced of Weiner lying next to the couple’s toddler son. Huma Abedin, loyal aide and betrayed wife, picks up the mic 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z The result is a lurid revisionist pageant that reinterprets Mormon history in the style of an African folktale. "Book of Mormon" fresh, funny and sweet 2011-03-25T00:48:29Z The tiny seeds of concern she plants along the way germinate and blossom in lurid hues. Review | In Sadie Jones’s “The Snakes,” parents are more venomous than reptiles 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z “The storytelling is so preoccupied with lurid crime details, it rarely pulls back to study larger dynamics.” In ‘Crime Scene,’ Joe Berlinger Investigates True-Crime Obsession 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z The movie’s violence is loud and lurid, possibly needfully by the director’s standards, but gratuitously by this reviewer’s lights. Review: In ‘Shanghai,’ John Cusack Is a Naval Intelligence Operative in a Bind 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z This whole scheme is laid out in a voice that belongs only to Adjei-Brenyah, who bends the lurid into the lyrical — pretty words about hideous deeds. In This Satire, Televised Blood Baths Offer Prisoners a Path to Freedom 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z The case of the West Memphis Three has evolved in the last 20 years from a lurid true-crime story into one of the biggest miscarriage of justice scandals in modern US history. West of Memphis – review 2012-12-20T22:00:03Z On the right, an expressionless, algae-colored sphinx dominates a lurid green sky. Artificial intelligence is restoring lost works by Klimt, Picasso and Rembrandt. Not everyone is happy about it. 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z Here, as in the earlier opera, Schreker spins a lurid tale. Music: Franz Schreker?s Opera ?Der Ferne Klang? at Bard 2010-07-25T01:32:00Z Each series follows the conventional History channel format that puts a real person in front of a camera in a darkened studio, then amplifies the account of woe with lurid re-enactments. Television: ?Locked Up Abroad? and Other Scary Travel Shows 2010-05-08T03:06:00Z On the lurid covers of the later paperback British editions, the double s in Hassel's name was printed as the double lightning-flash symbol of Heinrich Himmler's SS. Sven Hassel obituary 2012-10-02T16:06:04Z This documentary is more than just a lurid retrospective, however, and it benefits greatly from the collective hindsight of 30-plus years. Perspective | In resisting the allure of a killer’s good looks, ‘Preppy Murder’ series restores some dignity to his victim 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z But despite a lurid trailer that made the rounds, this is no piece of inadvertent high camp. TV film throws the book at Drew Peterson 2012-01-16T21:49:00Z These are Hollywood movies with “Hollywood” in italics and quotation marks, combining lurid overstatement with subtle, even subliminal irony. Review: In ‘Elle,’ Isabelle Huppert Subverts the Role of Rape Victim 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z But West’s career didn’t take off until she began writing, producing and directing her own Broadway vehicles: lurid comic melodramas with attention-grabbing titles like “Pleasure Man,” “The Constant Sinner” and, simply and most memorably, “Sex.” Mae West Vamped and Winked. She Also Blazed a Trail We’re Still Following. 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z In concept, “UnREAL” is TV-show as remora, hoping to capitalize on lurid fascination with, and skepticism about, reality programming. Lifetime’s ‘UnREAL’ Traces the Cracks in Reality TV’s Fourth Wall 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z The many lurid stories in her book are true, says Edwards-Jones, but they are shoe-horned into 24 hours in the life of one fictional restaurateur, giving a "hyperbolic view of everything". Warning: chefs behaving properly 2013-07-18T06:00:11Z Sounds intense, and Stone's film is indeed a lurid, pulpy film noir but with an erotic, even dreamlike California beach vibe. Review: Stone back in bold form with `Savages' 2012-07-03T01:46:04Z So the story had two currently hot hooks: struggles with race and identity, on one hand, and a lurid real-life murder mystery, on the other. Review: ‘I Am the Night’ Stitches Together Los Angeles Neo-Noir Clichés 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z True to Perry form, this Christmas story will eventually spill lurid family secrets all over the stage. Madea Meets the Ku Klux Klan 2011-11-17T15:13:07Z An appealingly lurid stage setup adorned with flowers, palm trees and an oversized rattan throne – it was all very “Island of Dr. Moreau” – contributed to a royal vibe. Lana Del Rey overwhelmed by her image at the Shrine 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z I tried to read them all—the thesaurus has always been one of my favorite books—but eventually I abandoned the effort and just took pleasure in their softly lurid glow. An L.A. Artist Who Anticipated Our Trumpian Moment 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z The result is “by turns brutal and sentimental, lovely and lurid, as serious as the grave and blissfully preposterous,” Manohla Dargis wrote in her review for The Times. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Crip Camp’ and ‘Dark Phoenix’ 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z In this latest exhibition, children will be positively encouraged to see the brothers' lurid etchings. How the Chapman Brothers became the brothers grim 2010-08-03T20:31:00Z This is his first feature, and he is not shy about it, hurling his lurid vision onto the screen with cheeky confidence. Review: ‘My Father Die,’ Full of Testosterone and Misogyny 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Fitzgerald's prose somehow elevates a lurid and underdeveloped narrative to the level of myth. Why Gatsby is so great 2012-06-09T23:05:21Z Phelps has written a number of crime shows for the BBC, including five adaptations of Agatha Christie novels, that privilege dark psychology and lurid twists over plot logic and coherent characterization. ‘A Very British Scandal’ Review: Claire Foy Gives Up the Crown 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Cruise ships, those fun-house microcosms of society, offer rich and sometimes lurid settings to social observers. Soft Children Confront a Hard World in Maile Meloy’s New Novel 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z I did not read this story for one reason: The lurid and disrespectful headline. Readers react to stories about a doctor treating Ebola and the murder of a climber 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z On the whole, though, this is a valuable recounting of a lurid and little-known episode in American history. It’s man vs. the mob in Stephan Talty’s exhilarating history ‘The Black Hand’ 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z Wade, one aspect of the abortion debate stayed the same: lurid sensationalism. How 19th-century literature spread the archetype of the "evil abortionist" 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z She knows it must, because back when it happened, she’d expected something more lurid, too. Comic or Graphic, Shows About Abortion Surface a Stark Divide 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z Ms. Cracknell again combines profound empathy for an unhappy heroine with a startling use of techniques more commonly associated with lurid genre movies. Theater Review: ‘Medea,’ Kathleen Turner and Noël Coward on London Stages 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z Parcast, based in Los Angeles, is one of several upstarts that are saturating the market with relatively cheaply produced podcasts, relying on lurid subject matter to draw in listeners. Pulp Nonfiction: Podcasts Go Mass-Market 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z The banter among the transgender heroines is funny; the lurid revenge-fantasy violence, not so much. Film: The Tribeca Film Festival?s Cinemania Series Has Dark Treasures 2010-04-22T22:56:00Z Behind its grinding gears and lurid conceits, we hear the sound of a culture settling in for the long haul, guided by voices and staking its claim. Wieland; Or, the Transformation ??an American Tale by Charles Brockden Brown 2010-10-01T23:15:00Z Where that art is lurid, Collar’s style is studiously cool. Review | In the galleries: Images focus on the future of the planet 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z Hidden inside “These Violent Delights” is a clever novel of manners that might have been even more exciting than the lurid plot at its steamy center. Debut Novels About Seamy Underbellies and Dark Turns 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z One of the creepiest images to emerge in President Obama’s 2008 campaign was a picture of the candidate’s face covered in the lurid and messy Joker makeup from the flick “The Dark Knight.” 5 presidential candidates and the art that shows how we feel about them 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Here the arrangement lent the songs a lurid Expressionist character, which was sometimes grating but occasionally revelatory. Review: Argento Chamber Ensemble Brings Out Mahler’s Inventive Side 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Park scatters several amusing nods to the Hitchcock picture throughout “Decision to Leave,” notably with lurid close-ups of eyes, rooftop chases and a gnarled tree jutting atop a treacherous precipice. ‘Decision to Leave’ Review: A Labyrinth of Desire 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z I watched the surgery but tried not to perceive it, saw the violated eye but tried not to comprehend it, yet it was impossible to remain calm while viewing this lurid physical anathema. The eye surgery I never should have seen 2014-01-28T00:00:00Z Madeleine is a convincing heroine whose dry observations of the most lurid scene — a doctor operating on a terrified patient’s tumor – steady the narrative as it accelerates through twists and revelations. Adventures from Dennis Lehane and Lene Kaaberbol 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z Ms. Kent and Julia Ducournau, who directed the lurid French cannibal tale “Raw,” are two of the most exciting new voices in the field. Home Is Where the Horror Is 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z On a spring day in 1876 — as reported by national newspapers in lurid detail — a Kentucky farm wife was caught in a sudden shower of meat, gristly shreds tumbling from the clear sky above. Remembering the Time Meat Fell From the Sky 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z When God unleashes Satan on the tenuous order of Job’s world, things fall apart fast, in the lurid style that Mr. Bradshaw favors. Theater Review: ‘Job,’ at the Flea Theater 2012-09-20T02:00:00Z “Duet for Cannibals,” which inspired ambivalent reviews in The New York Times and contentious letters to the editor, is open to the same characterization although it is more of a social critique rendered fashionably lurid. Susan Sontag’s Mind Games 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Elsewhere, there's enjoyable material on the lurid outrage he provokes stateside merely for suggesting that women, poor people and vegetarians be treated with respect. Jamie Kilstein – review 2013-02-21T17:43:10Z A recounting of an intricate, lurid caper, in the form of a confession by its anti-hero, Huff, the story and Cain's hard-edge prose style appealed to readers — if not so much to pulp-averse literary critics. Noir classic steps out of the shadows at ACT 2011-10-20T18:50:11Z His oral history — a genre practiced with more transparency by Studs Terkel and Jean Stein — favors lurid detail and despair, like a nihilistic sequel to the Rona Jaffe novel ‘The Best of Everything.’ New & Noteworthy 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z “He and We” is a monotype featuring three black silhouettes against a lurid red backdrop. Royal Nebeker: paintings explore the pull of Norway 2013-03-13T18:25:00Z But there is a color revolution breaking out in this summer 2013 season, which is rich in bright palettes, lurid shades and digital patterns. A Multicolor Revolution 2012-09-12T16:37:47Z That was the coolest thing on a runway, which was essentially a large sports arena lit by lurid red lights and studded with the sawed halves of cars standing upright like industrial-age Stonehenge. Perspective | Virgil Abloh made a lot of noise when he began his Off-White womenswear. Things have gotten much quieter. 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z He keeps her captive in his mansion, and soon an outlandish, lurid back story to his obsession emerges. Film: Pedro Almod?var?s ?The Skin I Live In? and Golden-Age Melodrama 2011-10-09T03:33:03Z In Rubens’s sketch, the animal carcasses and vegetal matter seem to swirl on the table in a lurid dream of gluttony. Review | A Rubens exhibition asks: Are first thoughts best? 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Much of Hilary Bettis’s relentlessly lurid “Alligator,” produced by New Georges and the Sol Project, is set in and around the pit at the Ever ’Gator Ranch, a fictitious Florida tourist attraction. Review: ‘Alligator’ Wallows in a Lurid Florida Pit of Sex and Murder 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z But neither the score — vacillating between bustling churn and lurid surges — nor this staging has made Clyde and Roberta’s illicit relationship anything more than an innocuous excuse for mild duets. ‘An American Tragedy’ and More at Glimmerglass 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z This lurid melodrama is a bombardment of hectic incident data, anxious feeling, and random data. How Snap Originals Beat Facebook and Instagram in Adapting TV to Social Media 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Jack’s arrival, Ford believes, has made him perhaps a fraction less uptight; he’d hoped that Jack would play with tasteful, grey wooden toys, but his stark, beautiful houses are now defiled by lurid plastic. Tom Ford: ‘I wore a suit on set. It's a uniform… I feel weak in trainers’ 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z Bolin’s own obsession is nowhere near as lurid but just as fascinating. Coming of Age — and Becoming a Writer — in an America Obsessed With ‘Dead Girls’ 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z A plethora of colourful feathered creatures flutter their way through Brazil's lurid landscapes. Rio's extinction fears are for the birds 2011-04-11T09:48:52Z Graham-Dixon gives little credence to the lurid traditional tales, and at best will concede only that he might have been "omnisexual". Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane 2010-06-26T23:11:00Z But, in 1968, Rule was a correspondent for True Detective magazine, writing lurid tabloid accounts of crime stories from Oregon to the Canadian border. Too Close to Ted Bundy 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z Sometimes the crime is petty and lurid, as when, over Labor Day weekend, a cache of nude photographs of female celebrities was released online and spread through social media. Don't Look: Beheadings, Stolen Nudes and Choosing to Be Decent 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z In a lurid climax, Myrtle is run over by a car driven by Daisy. Nearly a Century Later, We’re Still Reading — and Changing Our Minds About — Gatsby 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z I’ve seen scores of these films and have grown pretty inured to violence, but even I was startled by the scene’s lurid misogyny. Summer of Spanx: What Hollywood Thinks You Still Think Is Funny Is A Little Sad 2013-07-11T09:45:36Z Similarly, in Ford’s sophomore feature, “Nocturnal Animals,” the on-screen action was lurid, but the story, a tale of marital deception filled with eye-rolling twists, didn’t hold up. Perspective | When fashion designers become directors, they bring movies a much-needed visual stamp 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z It's got characters wallowing in bloody crimes and sloppy sex, all of which seems even more lurid during a steamy summer in the racially divided Florida swamps of the late 1960s. `The Paperboy' delivers gooey, sleazy cheese 2012-10-03T22:40:24Z As the Sexual Revolution ushered in more relaxed attitudes towards sex, however, these cinemas began to entice with films such as “Sex Clinic Girls” or “Resurrection of Eve” and lurid red letters that blared “XXX.” The last (porn) picture shows: Once dotted with dozens of adults cinemas, L.A. now only has two 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Cohen is a real figure in the lurid annals of the Southern California underworld, and the tale of his rise and fall is ripe with nasty potential. Movie Review: ‘Gangster Squad’ With Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone 2013-01-10T22:30:08Z Ms. Anderson, Mr. Reed and Mr. Zorn’s set focused on Mr. Zorn’s eloquent and expressive alto saxophone playing, which shifted from mournfulness to lurid rage. Music Review: Strum, Pluck, Rescue, Rebuild 2011-04-11T21:45:04Z Neon Indian’s 2015 album, “Vega Intl. Night School,” was a proudly quirky and occasionally lurid celebration of the dark before the dawn. The Playlist: Metallica Flickers Back to Life, and Tayla Struts Into the Spotlight 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z The banter and the performances are still excellent and entertaining enough to distract from a sprawl that's still global but fails to register the bold, lurid memories it was once capable of spinning. "Killing Eve" is back and misses its calling, despite faint echoes of its past seduction 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z Another lurid “reveal” about the roots of Clemson’s addiction has a familiar Southern gothic flavor. Theater Review: ‘Good Television,’ at Atlantic Stage 2 2013-06-05T02:00:01Z She flings herself into the drama’s more lurid episodes with impressive physical aplomb, as when a drug-addled Cody strips naked and threatens to assault his would-be benefactress. | 'High': Assisting Recovery, Craving Redemption 2011-04-20T02:01:29Z All this gothic horror is drawn in deliciously lurid tones, but what’s even more satisfying is how effectively Macneal integrates the disparate elements of her story. Review | ‘The Doll Factory’ is a guilty pleasure wrapped around a provocative history lesson 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z In 2008, just days before the Republican primary in Montana, a lurid postcard landed in one district’s mailboxes. Review: Tracking ‘Dark Money’ in Montana Elections 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Against a long and attenuated trill of the viola, Mehretu’s backgrounds become a lurid green or mysterious blue and the black lines of the paintings start to look more querulous. Review: In ‘Monochromatic Light,’ Artists Saturate and Vacate Space 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z The reliance on melodramatic music and lurid — though not explicit — re-enactments does not seem to me to make the movie more powerful, but rather the opposite. Movie Review: ‘Mea Maxima Culpa,’ Alex Gibney Documentary 2012-11-15T23:34:58Z Masterman carefully balances Brigid’s lurid past with her carefully constructed new life. Maturity and experience trump youth in debut mystery novel 2013-04-24T22:04:56Z Brass shrieks, vivacious dance rhythms and a lurid waltz parody ensue; an amplified female speaker, unseen, precedes a final solo cadenza and hammering final flourish. Music Review: A New Scottish Concerto, Dressed Up and Dreamy 2011-03-03T21:49:11Z Blake, too, whose lurid menopause monologue is a highlight, is attuned to the silliness of the enterprise. Grumpy Old Women 2010-04-28T22:20:00Z "Dark Temptations" sounds like a box of sinful chocolate treats … but it's actually a collection of lurid, true-crime tales. TV This Week June 29 - July 5: 'Californication' and more 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z It's a lightbox in which a furl of lurid pink seems to unroll from the mouth of a black-and-white MRI scanner. When two tribes meet: collaborations between artists and scientists 2011-08-21T20:30:01Z Years pass, names change, the news cycle speeds up with Gawker, BuzzFeed and the online rest disseminating the latest lurid details 24/7. Late-in-life Errol Flynn leers in 'The Last of Robin Hood' 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z I was careful to not get lurid or petty about it. Hollywood’s nanny-cheating cliché hits home: “There’s something so damn interesting and damn depressing about men being attracted to much younger and naive women” 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z Should “Gone Girl” convince you that our contemporary skepticism about marriage is rooted, ultimately, in our lurid, misguided, communal fantasy life? What “Gone Girl” Is Really About 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z What perhaps is not surprising is how “Antebellum” presents the lurid spectacle of a woman’s humiliation as if it were a fable of empowerment. ‘Antebellum’ Review: Look Away, Dixie Land 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z He tends to see everything in lurid 2D. Guardian book club: Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson 2010-09-20T10:37:00Z The play’s naturalism is hard to reconcile with the lurid and implausible events that unfold when Tobin heads to the heartland for a showdown with his critics. Theater Review: At the Vineyard, Reading Can Be Hazardous 2010-05-20T04:12:00Z On the topical front a lurid painting by Tom Sanford envisions the singer Whitney Houston up to her neck in a luxurious bath drinking Champagne, crack pipe near at hand. Art In Review: ‘THE DOUBLE DIRTY DOZEN (& FRIENDS)’ 2012-09-06T20:05:12Z I think our audience really wants to see the old-world style: tutu, point shoes, wig, eyelashes, lurid red lips, over-the-top expressions. Stars and Stripes (and Trocks) Forever 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z Becca kept her head in a neutral position, not up, not down, and tried to hold everything in her peripheral vision loosely and inconsequentially – the drop, the rolling tide, the lurid streaky sandbars. Wilderness by Sarah Hall 2013-03-18T13:22:56Z We finally get the full story of how Dwight Walker became Lucious Lyon and all the lurid details of his troubled childhood. ‘Empire’ Season 2, Episode 13: Of Family Secrets 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Withdraw Nick’s perspective and the lurid plot sticks out of the water like a shipwreck at low tide. Review | For ‘Gatsby’ fans, 2021 will be the start of remakes. First up: ‘Nick’ 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z In it, Benjamin describes the different varieties of middle-of-the-night dislocation — nights when “the thickening, sense-dulling” darkness “hangs velvety as a pall,” or the “luminous moonlit nights, lurid nights, when everything feels heightened.” Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Tossing and Turning in ‘Insomnia’ 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z And so, blood runs, investigation ensues and a lurid double-murder trial fails to tidily tie up the tale. Lifetime’s ‘Lizzie Borden’ is surprisingly layered 2014-01-25T00:18:55Z They were given The Cement Garden, and the next time they saw Coe, worriedly remarked on his dark and lurid imagination. A life in writing: Jonathan Coe 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z Yet while “Rehab” was still climbing the charts Ms. Winehouse became the subject of lurid headlines for drug binges that left her hospitalized and forced her to cancel concert dates. Amy Winehouse, British Soul Singer With a Destructive Image, Dies at 27 2011-07-23T21:29:21Z Huang Weikai’s 2009 documentary “Disorder” is a lurid compilation of amateur video recordings of traffic accidents and other instances of urban chaos shot in Guangzhou, a focal point of the Chinese economic miracle. ‘The Uprising,’ a Masterpiece of iPhone Cinema 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z Cain's fiction is passionate and sometimes lurid -- noir traits for sure -- but it also owes a great deal to social realism. "Mildred Pierce" is a quiet, heartbreaking masterpiece 2011-03-24T14:43:00Z This was shot on 35 millimeter film and has lots of jump cuts, zooms and lurid images. Eric Bogosian breaks down "Uncut Gems" and Adam Sandler's "amazing" performance 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z The saxophone — sweet, urban, loud, intriguingly lurid — offers far different pleasures than those found in the more delicate oboe. Marsalis, Philadelphia orchestra go by the book at the Wallis 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Perhaps “The Americans” performs the same function for a younger generation, in a lurid, dreamlike way. The Cruel Irony of “The Americans” 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z We don’t get to see all of Kevin’s alter egos, but enough to get the picture and to make this lurid little horror stand out from the crowd. From Split to Psycho: why cinema fails dissociative identity disorder 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Television is clogged with lurid supernatural fare these days — “Salem,” “The Walking Dead,” “American Horror Story,” “The Originals” — so staking out a distinctive place within the genre isn’t easy. Television Review: ‘Penny Dreadful,’ Showtime’s Supernatural Entry 2014-05-09T22:49:10Z Rigorous, austere, punctuated by bizarre and lurid touches, “First Reformed” marked the return of a master, collaborating with an actor at the very top of his game. Best movies of 2018: ‘Roma’ is intimate, epic and the year’s finest 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z There is some sex and plenty of gore, but mostly an atmosphere of feverish, lurid melodrama leavened with winks of knowing humor and held together by Goth’s utterly earnest and wondrously bizarre performance. ‘Pearl’ Review: A Farmer’s Daughter Moves Up the Food Chain 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z It’s the day after the screening and what was initially seen as a lurid oddity has become the festival’s most discussed and enthusiastically cheered film. Paul Verhoeven on Elle: 'It is not a rape comedy' 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z It was the subject of lurid publicity campaigns – "How would you like to tussle with Russell?" Jane Russell: 'An immense, impervious beauty' 2011-03-01T19:55:54Z The shade, somewhere between a Bouguereau mauve and Andy Warhol’s “Lavender Disaster,” incorporates the values of a lurid sunset, a screen’s glow, and a fashionable young millennial’s idea of neon delirium. The Ennobling Smut of Gregg Araki’s “Now Apocalypse” 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z On a shelf is a lurid, plastic, life-size model of a rectum afflicted by every imaginable malady – haemorrhoids, fistulae, ulcerative colitis, faecaliths. It's a gut reaction: how other people's bacteria can cure us – extract 2013-03-31T00:05:02Z The shop assistants remember her, partly because she behaves so strangely, and partly because she buys such lurid, garish garments. The Lost Man Booker prize 2010-04-01T07:00:00Z |
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