But there's a troubling needle for Park to thread here: The director unabashedly traffics in lurid material, and in service of a lurid lesbian story, he's putting female flesh on lurid display.
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Make no mistake, "Unsane" is a ludicrous, lurid B-movie, but as ludicrous, lurid B-movies go, it's a treat.
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Just like all the other "trolling victims," I was a spectacle, lurid entertainment for the masses as much as I'd been lurid entertainment for the trolls.
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I have never done such lurid things to a peach.
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Tabloids blanketed their pages with lurid headlines, images and speculation.
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A particular treat is her ear for lurid local myths.
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These lurid tales from the nuclear world are all real.
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But it somehow feels cheaper than the lurid city streets.
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There's a lot of lurid inquiry swirling around Hiddleston lately.
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These were lurid, insanely colorful objects that were nonetheless functional.
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But it wasn't all grisly accidents and lurid crime scenes.
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But the Stockton of "Fat City" is lurid and legendary.
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Based on the evidence we have of just Bill Clinton and Trump alone, we know lurid sexual comments and even certain lurid and improper sexual acts are not enough to end your political career.
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For every objective study I saw, there was a lurid counterpart.
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It is amazingly lurid, amazingly tacky, amazingly brash and amazingly bold.
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But all the dirty lurid fake details are provided by Russia.
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This is not some ham-handed satire or lurid dystopian novel.
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Scout speak is practical and descriptive, yet colorful and sometimes lurid.
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"It's not a lurid, true crime series with reenactments," Landgraf noted.
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The Prohibition era teemed with lurid anecdotes about murderous drunken rages.
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The plot stakes of Sabrina are almost lurid: abduction, murder, conspiracy.
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Their divorce filings, in the Los Angeles court system, are lurid.
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Acquaintances do sometimes ask how he dreams up such lurid stories.
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Modern authoritarianism is often as lurid and cacophonous as a casino.
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Self-doubt had painted the world in lurid and threatening colors.
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And in some respects, that's sufficient for satisfyingly offbeat, lurid entertainment.
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Or simply a lurid expression of sexuality between a father and daughter?
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Assassination Nation, Sam Levinson's lurid Sundance hit, has no time for politeness.
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We often turn to spectacular, even lurid accounts, especially in popular culture.
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His lurid, $2-million Regera supercar was first shown here last year.
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Unfortunately, lurid interest in gay life isn't a thing of the past.
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It was fascinating, if increasingly lurid, as JDCR carved-up his teammate.
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I gagged down the lurid slab with a swig of warm Buckfast.
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But the threat posed by AI is less lurid and less clear.
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And again, it's not just that it's the sex part is lurid.
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But there's no violence in Hansen-Love's world, no sensationalism, nothing lurid.
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So did lurid corruption scandals involving billionaires, government officials and mining companies.
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Lurid, loud and terrifying—it immediately just catapults you into that world.
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By 2006, Mr. Gui had turned to publishing lurid books on Chinese politics.
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The lurid details have provoked embarrassment for universities and Schadenfreude for the public.
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But I remember, or maybe I don't, that the cover was extremely lurid.
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You're gonna want to shut your mind off and enjoy its lurid energy.
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Sexual assault on campus is frequently portrayed as lurid and dark and complex.
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Lurid recruiting violations accompanied the dominance of Miami's teams in the early 2000s.
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And the movie of "Carmen Jones" does have some glamour, albeit lurid glamour.
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His mild manner seems at odds with the lurid violence of crime novels.
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Even the most lurid forms of behavior are accorded the same apotheosizing gloss.
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The racketeering counts were among the least lurid ones that Ms. Mack faced.
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"In Cold Blood" aestheticized the Clutter murders, mixing lurid details with gossamer prose.
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The first wave of Lithuanians arriving in Britain were dogged by lurid stories.
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Televised impeachment hearings, Whitewater investigation, Monica Lewinsky scandal -- we learned all the lurid details.
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Neymar denied the accusations and released private chats and lurid photos they had exchanged.
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They were kept happy on a constant diet of cheap songs and lurid stories.
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Among the most lurid of French scandals is the case of Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
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Mr. Robot Dom's most lurid dreams aren't much stranger than her and Elliot's reality.
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Later, his exploits and those of his friends become ever more extreme and lurid.
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Screen Daily said it was a "film drunk on its own trashy, lurid aesthetic".
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Her hysterical reaction to rejection—and the lurid pink leggings she wore—"went viral".
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" Welcome to what The New Yorker calls the most "lurid corner of the internet.
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Yet his lurid warning about the dangers of mass immigration resonated with many Britons.
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The thing is, it never really implodes, courtesy of pace, and pure, lurid prettiness.
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It's astounding that this balancing act between patent absurdity and lurid ultrareality still works.
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Ms. Bosworth's biography has been criticized, with some justification, for tilting toward the lurid.
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Have $200 million and want to own a part of Playboy's (slightly lurid) history?
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But he suddenly became overwhelmed by the thought that the story was irredeemably lurid.
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The once-powerful televangelists Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakker were discredited by lurid scandals.
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In alternating chapters, two female narrators provide the long, lurid and psychologically complex answer.
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Seen in close-up, they often look precious, combining lurid hues and aesthetic flamboyance.
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This 2009 painting pairs lurid tones of purples and pinks with clunky white waves.
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The terrific art direction warps the bubble-gum iconography into something haunting and lurid.
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The line sets the tone for the lurid tale that is about to unspool.
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The lurid story of a sex-working, man-killer stirred an unrelenting media frenzy.
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The first essay is a knockout, a lurid red heart wrapped in barbed wire.
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This is rural Britain as a site of the lurid, the warped, the malcontented.
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With its lurid red and brooding villains, the thriller "Triple 9" comes dressed to kill.
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It was the dream of a modern, proud United Kingdom, turned into a lurid nightmare.
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Conservatives have been trading lurid conspiracy theories in their own media echo chamber for ages.
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Worse, perhaps, was Goffman's fondness in her writing for what could seem like lurid detail.
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Black Power prohibits the lurid gang rapes that once occurred on an almost weekly basis.
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He was ensnared in a corruption scandal and faced lurid allegations from a former lover.
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Lurid accusations sit at his door, from bullying commissioners to threatening miscreant journalists with violence.
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Neymar had denied the accusations and released private chats and lurid photos they had exchanged.
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Jo, like her creator, writes lurid tales for the newspaper in order to make money.
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He is lurid, pulpy, and prone to pushing facts as far as they can go.
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Today it's just another plot twist in the lurid telenovela that is Donald Trump's presidency.
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Maybe Posobiec, being a fabulist, was planning on inventing a lurid tale of depraved behavior?
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It is not the N.C.A.A.'s job, Southall noted, to assess the scandal's lurid quality.
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The film's lush, lurid palette has been exchanged for shades of black, white and silver.
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Carrying scythes, they sometimes stand among imprints of actual plants, beneath lurid suns and skies.
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The lurid palette of Expressionism colors these works and their obsession with death and decay.
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But the lurid opportunism that's driving him and his husband to embrace Trump is obvious.
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Most people will know "A Clockwork Orange" from the lurid perfection of Stanley Kubrick's film.
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A lurid, sensational true story involving a scorned lover, a diaper, and a drugstore wig!
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Kirby is generally mentioned in connection with the lurid crimes of its "criminally insane" patients.
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What should be horrifying—a lurid " Black Mirror " nightmare—is rendered both comprehensible and complex.
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The death scenes in "Anthony and Cleopatra" (Epsom and Ewell High School) were hauntingly lurid.
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At a time of flux and malaise, the lurid tale of aristocratic impunity astonished the country.
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Scottish newspapers are filled with lurid details of alleged groping in Bute House, his former residence.
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He slings lurid accusations of affairs, cartoonishly illustrated on stage in farcical scenes of pornographic sex.
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It is less ethically compromised than its more lurid cousins, meant to inform more than titillate.
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Of course, he is likely to respond by stirring up more muck and making lurid accusations.
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The movie dramatizes what was already one of the more lurid tabloid dramas in televised politics.
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The whole thing was a lurid spectacle, shameful even by the standards of Washington show trials.
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And the president cheered his conservative base by addressing "Islamic terror" in lurid, nearly apocalyptic language.
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Does our sleeping baby make a habit of bedding down in a puddle of lurid piss?
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Then, in my office, I keep all my pulps, with the most lurid covers facing out.
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The colors are lurid and smeary (when it's not too dark to see what's going on).
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Its small, but once seemingly solid, middle-class now struggles with a downturn and lurid violence.
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Lurid reports of damaged reefs started coming in from worried scientists in the summer of 20153.
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For the uninitiated, she's a star of the colorful J-pop scene — cartoonish, lurid, hyper-cute.
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What links Héctor with de la Cruz is a lurid story of passion, betrayal and longing.
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After lurid lighting and miles of shiny fabric, I want to see a temple fall down!
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People who followed the sagas quickly learned that they were in for more than lurid details.
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And "Revenge" leaves a lurid, punchy afterimage, an impression somewhere between righteous delight and quivering revulsion.
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In the annals of political warfare, sober recitations of facts often pale next to lurid speculation.
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A bookseller who sold lurid titles about China's leaders was abducted and taken to mainland China.
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"Before I Fall" is tactful rather than maudlin, tasteful rather than lurid, soothing rather than creepy.
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In Peru's urban centers, the incident generated lurid news stories about savage natives attacking peaceable settlers.
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CNN -- which saw the tape -- described lurid details, including R. Kelly allegedly urinating on the minor.
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The claims in Steele's dossier are lurid and unproven, but they draw on very real precedents.
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"Your exploitive use of Shelly Duvall is a form of LURID ENTERTAINMENT and is shameful," she wrote.
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The Turkish president didn't address any of the more lurid details of Khashoggi's murder in his speech.
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There were also the lurid details of the Hyperloop One imbroglio, where Lonsdale was a board member.
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There is no room for social niceties and political correctness in this lurid version of Parisian society.
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There are lurid parts, but the musician's hard-won self-knowledge is what the book's really about.
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There are also lurid accounts of the love affairs of senior party members and their mistresses' memoirs.
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The Pixel 2 XL feels drab by comparison, while the recent HTC U11+ appears lurid and oversaturated.
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By contrast, most of Grab's fleet consists of two-wheeled motorbikes and drivers wearing lurid green helmets.
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I dip my finger in the lurid yellow-green gel-like substance: it smells fresh and sweet.
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The truck attack at a Christmas market in Berlin has cast a lurid spotlight on German authorities.
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Many of the lurid details stemmed from 2010 to 2012, when the company was experiencing rapid growth.
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Notwithstanding her lurid origins, Barbie was the world's top-selling toy for girls for a half century.
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RB: There are people who want to know the objective facts that exist behind a lurid headline.
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The Clinton campaign famously paid for the lurid details contained in the since widely discredited opposition research.
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Lurid yet turgid, the movie is a tale of doomed puppy love, Nazi eugenics and sexual sadism.
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In a country where celebrity and political scandals rarely involve sex, Mr. Ghomeshi's case seemed particularly lurid.
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But it's so determined not to be lurid or bleak that it bleaches itself of troubling complexity.
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The Hateful Eight also offers a lurid exploration of the white anxiety of (perceived) black sexual prowess.
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Not for the first time, Andrew finds himself garnering lurid headlines stemming from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.
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His story shows, in lurid microcosm, how a certain class of men guard and perpetuate their privileges.
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Its shell is cracking, and a lurid yellow light gleams from within; a green gas seeps out.
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For years, they were at best ignored as lurid curiosities, though the reception was occasionally more severe.
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Lurid reports of the dangers of vaccination began to appear in medical journals and the popular press.
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Street violence, protests and lurid scenes from shows like HBO's "The Wire" have come to define Baltimore.
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For those interested in nitty-gritty shoptalk, I've included the lurid details of construction over at XWordInfo.
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Cruise ships, those fun-house microcosms of society, offer rich and sometimes lurid settings to social observers.
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In "See What I Have Done," Sarah Schmidt has created a lurid and original work of horror.
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The ACLU is grasping at moral authority by introducing a lurid story of murder into the proceedings.
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Former and current officials are providing lurid testimony on Capitol Hill in defiance of White House orders.
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But they noted that the North tends to couch its threats, however lurid, with carefully worded conditions.
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The lawsuit's lurid allegations of abusive employee treatment have no merit, the company said in a statement.
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He especially made it a priority to include "lurid stories and scandals," which made paper sales boom.
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There have been lurid references to bone saws, dismemberment and nighttime burial on a far-flung coastline.
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In "Iris," he lets his imagination run riot, concocting a lurid, potent tale steeped in decadent orientalism.
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It is characterized by an insistent lack of naturalism, its almost lurid color and its melodramatic theme.
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This book's first essay, in particular, is a knockout, a lurid red heart wrapped in barbed wire.
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It was a lurid look, a sexy and body-hugging mini-dress covered playfully in colorful buttons.
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But up close, these paintings feel lurid and exploitative, like the establishing shot of a snuff film.
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For all these lurid episodes, though, the big problem on many campuses is less vigilantism than self-censorship.
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Their humor helped him survive a traumatic childhood that Lamar often describes in lurid details in his music.
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But while lurid press coverage makes it easy to spot police shortcomings, it does less to explain them.
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These films originally promised drive-in and grindhouse audiences lurid thrills, and the creators knew they'd better deliver.
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Thus lurid claims about foreign criminals and "winning back our country" froth forth from Vote Leave and Leave.
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The case drew attention for its lurid details and the potential impact on Mr. Redstone's $43 billion empire.
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But AstroTurf is the kind of taxidermy that veers enthusiastically into kitsch, the lurid wax museum of lawn.
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And the porn itself is getting more lurid than ever, thanks to the tech world's devotion to algorithms.
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Nevertheless, when corruption and lurid accusations become so pervasive, a point is reached where they barely raise eyebrows.
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And the unfolding of the plot, with its lurid final twist, seems infused with an almost Victorian moralism.
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A Missouri state House committee released a graphic report Wednesday including lurid details of alleged conduct by Gov.
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Racers chew through the corners in lurid power slides that shoot roostertails of gravel at any competitor behind.
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In 2008, just days before the Republican primary in Montana, a lurid postcard landed in one district's mailboxes.
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Abortion opponents often focus on the lurid details of certain abortion procedures in an attempt to outlaw them.
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Then she began speaking out against the Chinese government and became the victim of a lurid smear campaign.
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Background: In 2009, a marital dispute led to a car accident and a succession of lurid tabloid headlines.
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The five specialized in books that offered critical and often lurid, poorly sourced descriptions of Communist Party elite.
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It was always about lurid myths, often based on deliberate fabrications, that were systematically spread to engender hatred.
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More than any other aspect of the show, they toe the line between disquieting violence and lurid entertainment.
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Facebook is hardly the only social media company struggling to deal with lurid material posted by its users.
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Images from Bangladesh show patients in teeming hospital wards, lying beneath mosquito nets under lurid electric strip lights.
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Ms. Chung has become a lightning rod for public anger as lurid accusations have emerged about her lifestyle.
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And that's what I wanted to capture in the film, that mix of the lurid and the humane.
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The panels are so bright that they're almost lurid, but they capture the vivid eccentricity of Gaudí's creations.
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The message was the same every time: "KILL BEZOS," they wrote all over the neighborhood, in lurid crimson paint.
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False stories typically have a lurid quality, often involving bizarre forms of cruelty that don't always strictly make sense.
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Iranian officials are fond of lurid conspiracy theories, but it is not hard to see why they suspect outsiders.
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As paparazzi photos and footage increasingly eclipses the purer warmth of home videos, that intimacy turns lurid and invasive.
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But, like Malaysia's politics, beset by lurid tales of financial malfeasance, the currency has been unusually skittish (see chart).
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"Bleak Street," Arturo Ripstein's new film, turns a lurid tabloid true-crime story into a somber, surreal, monochromatic dream.
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And then there were the extraordinary 1991 hearings for Justice Clarence Thomas, which included lurid accusations of sexual harassment.
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Throughout, he keeps the temperature of the action just below burning, to arouse in us a creepy, lurid fascination.
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The effort somehow moved from lurid interest in a particular woman's sex life to a critique of video games.
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The accusations had grown more detailed and lurid; the White House was said to be preparing for his withdrawal.
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It contains lurid passages about sex and drugs and guns and death, though it lacks characters or a plot.
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The comic is illustrated in lurid watercolors by Hwei Lim, making one wonder why all comics aren't hand-painted.
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But all packets will be henceforth sold in "unattractive" shades of mud-brown and khaki, with lurid health warnings.
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In Austria, the political fallout is still continuing from the lurid, still largely unexplained saga of the Ibiza Affair.
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The claims it raised publicly (and the more lurid ones it quietly briefed to journalists) fall into three categories.
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This is the very world of innuendo, unverified assertion, and lurid, deprecating detail that Trump rode to the presidency.
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Staff chaos in the West Wing is producing lurid palace intrigue stories in the media that the President hates.
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Victims, mostly but not exclusively women, have come out of the woodwork, reciting lurid experiences, some from decades ago.
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Next to it, like a tombstone, is a symbol of muted rage and anguish: a lurid red Christmas tree.
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This is Taylor Swift at her best: creating lurid imagery about a banal relationship somewhere in upstate New York.
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The Daily Mail first reported Weiner had allegedly exchanged lurid messages with an underage teenage girl in late September.
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Included in the documents were allegations of collusion with the Russian government, as well as lurid tales about Trump.
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The lurid colours of iPod nano commercials have started running, the dancing silhouettes are a washed out muddy-grey.
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Testimony on Friday was less lurid as six witnesses, four of them acquaintances of the woman's, took the stand.
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There is a fan zone, a boulevard of sponsors' tents, lurid blue signs offering directions in a childlike font.
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Psychologists and criminologists promptly dismissed Holmes's detailed confession of his crimes, but his lurid storytelling made for stimulating reading.
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These are Hollywood movies with "Hollywood" in italics and quotation marks, combining lurid overstatement with subtle, even subliminal irony.
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The over-all effect is lurid, nasty, and naggingly memorable, not least for the splendor of Eastwood's leonine coiffure.
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It's not lurid — the most explicit scene shows them snuggling in a sleeping bag — but it is occasionally silly.
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Mr. Kelly spoke of lurid violence and existential threats while dismissing as inevitably false any accounts of enforcement overreach.
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A foundational work for comics fans, "Watchmen" is a lurid, freewheeling satire, interrogating the American worship of violent superheroes.
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Opinion Columnist EL PASO — This tranquil city of bilingual trans-border commerce is where lurid fantasy meets humdrum reality.
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Despite the throbbing, lurid aesthetic of this book, Helen is a chilly character, restrained to the point of iciness.
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The dueling lawsuits and lurid accusations threaten to sully the company's idealistic mission to create a new form of transportation.
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Yet the lurid scandal involving a teenaged sex worker threatens to undo all the perceived progress the city has made.
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Its surface is inert, varnished, lurid, scrubbed over, and repainted so many times that it looks simultaneously new and old.
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But peer ahead and it is not hard to conjure up a plot worthy of the most lurid giallo-writer.
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Both women accused him of making impersonator accounts on various social platforms and sending them lurid, photoshopped images of themselves.
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In this way, Birds of Passage seems more invested in questions of honor than the lurid glory of the bloodbath.
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Lurid recordings of the men purportedly implicating one of the president's senior advisers have been circulated widely on social media.
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In the months after she confronted him, the Trumps waged a war of lurid headlines in the New York tabloids.
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This was part of a wider propaganda battle, in which newspapers ran lurid items about violence and exploitation in America.
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HBO would never have aired its lurid documentary about alleged crimes of Michael Jackson if the singer were still alive.
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" It is, she added, "by turns brutal and sentimental, lovely and lurid, as serious as the grave and blissfully preposterous.
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As a band they were lurid, surreal and outlandish, genuinely terrifying to some, but it was not without due thought.
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Trump used his campaign appearances to inflame his supporters with lurid appeals to their fear of immigrants and other outsiders.
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He doesn't seem likely to get there, but those who enjoy a wild, lurid ride might want to join him.
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It comes across as a gift of thanks that foregrounds beauty, laughter, and powerful joy over the lurid and usurious.
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Titled "Un dîner en ville," or "A Dinner in Town," the immersive installation is a lurid allegory of consumer excess.
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Ms. Torres's actions, as described by the criminal complaint filed against her, were smaller in scale and far less lurid.
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They are not ensconced inside a painterly illusion, but encroach into your reality through the force of their lurid magnetism.
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Background: For Woods, a marital dispute led to a car accident in 2009 and a succession of lurid tabloid headlines.
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It's a brave and moving investigation into a lurid family secret, as well as an apt origin story for Griffith.
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If only the directors had given as much attention to the acting as they clearly did to the lurid décor.
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Lurid theories appeared in the papers and on TV: Regeni was gay and had been murdered by a jealous lover.
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One girl has memories of being abused in childhood, but a backstory, however lurid, is no substitute for a character.
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Figures are rendered in a realist hand but painted in sometimes lurid, sometimes ghostly oranges, gray-blues, greens, and yellows.
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The lurid image makes it seem as though the ending of the film might once have been more dramatic and gory.
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The night before, Buzzfeed published some unverified, lurid claims about Trump's time in Russia that have clearly got under his skin.
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It's certainly not a collection of lurid pop culture trivia inserted in articles because it happens to be in the news.
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The other members of the gang are ciphers, distinguishable only by their physical characteristics and lurid nicknames, like Lollipop and Drone.
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Talese—rather than take Foos apart, examine his own identifications, or knead his own complicity—swaps the difficult for the lurid.
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You would have laughed in their face, or maybe accused them of confusing reality with a particularly lurid Tom Clancy novel.
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In the hot sun, it's a refreshing change from the lurid, sickly sweet cocktails served by most of Ibiza's beachside bars.
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Who knows what bodily fluids he'll be choking on next time, but this gleefully-lurid movie will be hard to top.
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This lurid incident brings the continent's body toll in such attacks so far this year to 33 dead and 126 injured.
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The lurid, campy political drama's fourth season is premiering on March 4th, and its first official trailer was released last night.
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Donald, who is thrice married, was an active participant in one of the most lurid infidelity scandals of the 20th century.
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For today the air is thick with insults and lurid claims flying between Tories on opposite sides of the EU debate.
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In place of facts, the Brexiteers had furious bombast; lurid assertions about immigration, sovereignty and national destiny; fantasies of purgative chaos.
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The former FBI director said Trump denied the lurid tale, but said he might order the FBI to investigate the claims.
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In the summer of 2018, there will be 85033 Democrats on stage and maybe the most lurid will stand out there.
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In the summer of 2018, there will be 18 Democrats on stage and maybe the most lurid will stand out there.
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But, by true dawn, the worst of the wounds had vanished, erased by some bad magic, leaving only a lurid rash.
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But Morley's pictures (among them, unforgettably, a Kodachrome-lurid scene of a quite insanely happy family at a beach) were gamier.
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Not so much the high-minded work of a whistleblower with a cause as a lurid rant of an ego untethered.
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The lawsuit does not challenge Gawker's right to publish the lurid description of the full tape's contents that accompanied the video.
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Dudamel cannily delivered a Hollywood-style encore: Bernard Herrmann's love music from "Vertigo," the lurid dark side of Copland's American dream.
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Indeed, all the American right's worst tendencies have been unleashed by President Trump, all its petty cruelty and lurid conspiracy theorizing.
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As lurid accusations became major headlines, Cosby's wife Camille was supportive, and was frequently photographed by his side throughout the trial.
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Republican attacks on health care, not lurid scandals, seem to have been the biggest factor behind Democratic victories in special elections.
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Details of the assault, one of which seemed ripped from "Silence of the Lambs," were lurid past the point of plausibility.
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Neil Cross is good at unsettling viewers, whether through his lurid thriller "Luther," starring Idris Elba, or on "Doctor Who" episodes.
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" Suddenly "lying was funny, and hatred was funny, and bigotry was funny," and the entire country becomes "a lurid graphic novel.
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Those then became distribution channels for lurid photos, false news and inflammatory posts, often aimed at Myanmar's Muslims, the people said.
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The conductor Andris Nelsons, though, wholly misconceived the Symphonic Dances from "West Side Story": rhythms were limp and textures too lurid.
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Who are these monstrous women and doctors that, in his lurid language, "rip" babies "from the mother's womb moments before birth"?
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But Trump sensationalizes in lurid terms: "Women are tied up, they're bound, duct tape put around their faces," he has said.
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For instance, talking generally about being "horny" is very different than offering up the lurid details of sexual experiences in themselves.
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It's not like Jo's other stories, lurid tales of pirates and witches and murder, the kind of thing she thinks sells.
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Inside, a dozen black-clad assistants raced around on lurid magenta carpets, serving the 20-some customers on the ground floor.
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Her smiling visage, juxtaposed with the lurid details inside, spoke to many women's fears about the humiliation of everyone knowing but you.
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Several of the animals appear to be dipped in lurid colored ink and inflated to the extent that they appear balloon-like.
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The lurid glow of marquees and brothels revealed to us a shivering, shambling crowd, some slumped like apes, some clutching their young.
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Both memos claim the Russians compromised Trump during his 2013 visit to Moscow when he allegedly engaged in lurid activity with prostitutes.
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Conversations details how irresistible the case was to the media, with its lurid details juxtaposed against the unlikely figure of Bundy himself.
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He likened Madonsela to a "Biblical David" taking on the Goliath of state corruption, a simile that spawned lurid cartoons and headlines.
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That is, until Mr. Hawley and Republicans here were forced to contend with a lurid sex scandal involving the state's Republican governor.
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Percolating in his mind are ecstatic and lurid visions out of Christopher Isherwood's "The Berlin Stories" and Brecht and Weill song lyrics.
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As they fed the tabloid press juicy quotes, the story of Trump; his wife, Ivana; and Maples turned into a lurid spectacle.
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Since late 2017, countless women in Hollywood have shared details about the lurid behavior and devastating sexual assaults happening behind closed doors.
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But it's also hard to escape the idea that living in America today is like watching comment sections spring to lurid life.
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No evidence exists to suggest the document was deliberately destroyed on account of the poem's lurid content, according to the press release.
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If Great Albums exist as a category, the Killers have simulated and hence made one — a monument to romantic hunger's lurid power.
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The rising popularity of that genre, from Netflix to podcasts to documentaries, shows that fans connect with these lurid real life tales.
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The Bouveng trial garnered lurid tabloid headlines by pitting the young woman against a Wall Street financier about 20 years her senior.
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Russia will dominate Trump's first 100 days Trump pushed back hard at unsubstantiated clamins that Russia possesses lurid, compromising information about him.
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We finally get the full story of how Dwight Walker became Lucious Lyon and all the lurid details of his troubled childhood.
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Soviet propaganda churned out lurid images of Americans as greed-consumed imperialists unable to view other people as anything other than subjects.
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Not unlike the television series "The Sopranos," the book presented a lurid crime story in the form of an intimate domestic drama.
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Their websites bore the usual hallmarks: never-ending scroll, brash copy, lurid visuals, dodgy Microsoft clip art, flashing gifs, and shadow font.
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He shows viewers the ecstatic highs of the Mexico City party circuit, as well as the lurid comedown when the revelry ends.
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All of the lurid and vile elements of an extreme metal band were there: drugs, kidnapping, ritual murder, and, above all, Satanism.
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The campy climax even goes for the same Grand Guignol glamour of Gone Girl, but the lurid moment isn't half as compelling.
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Stray microphones regularly reveal technical areas to be a world of lurid, polyglot insults, but certain words are considered beyond the pale.
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Now, the Turks say they have audio, the source of some of the more lurid details they have given about the killing.
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The rhetorical bombast may have overshadowed his broader project, of which the Alabama contest constitutes only one small, if unexpectedly lurid, part.
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The lurid account you now offer differs materially and in tone with the allegations she brought to Long Wharf 11 years ago.
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He was never prosecuted in the New York probe, which led to lurid tabloid coverage and a movie on the Lifetime channel.
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This is his first feature, and he is not shy about it, hurling his lurid vision onto the screen with cheeky confidence.
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"Split" is lurid and ludicrous, and sometimes more than a little icky in its prurient, maudlin interest in the abuse of children.
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He was fuming over the BuzzFeed dossier and all those lurid allegations worthy of "South Park," the pee jokes lighting up Twitter.
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There's tremendous beauty and power in these therapy-adjacent works, but there is of course also an almost lurid sense of voyeurism.
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How come there are so many lurid and spiritually bankrupt true crime shows, but so few documentary series about training service dogs?
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Where she was during those crucial hours has been one of the most jealously guarded secrets of her office, spawning lurid rumors.
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Because many of the facts presented at the hearing were so lurid, prosecutors cautioned people against remaining in court to hear them.
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Others, like Jezebel, thought it was a problem of bad journalism: too focused on lurid or peripheral details; too suggestive, too unclear.
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It's understandable that apparently random rampages stoke more personal concern than other attacks, and that novel settings and lurid details catch audiences' eyes.
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That's the question plaguing the finale of I Am The Night, which also finds all of the lurid show's characters in dire situations.
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Despite lurid headlines, there is no clear upward trend in most categories of offence, though sexual assaults have risen in the past year.
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"This is yet another lurid production in an outrageous and pathetic attempt to exploit and cash in on Michael Jackson," the statement reads.
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"This is yet another lurid production in an outrageous and pathetic attempt to exploit and cash in on Michael Jackson," the statement read.
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The barrage of tweets about Kimmel's alleged lurid, perverted past marred any ground Hannity had won with his original statement against the mocking.
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More oversight to weed out excessively lurid or gory content may not be such a bad thing, however, say some in the industry.
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As I write about stories of sexual violence, I constantly struggle over whether a word choice is usefully specific or lurid and pornographic.
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In 1988, Geraldo Rivera's lurid documentary Devil Worship: Exposing Satan's Underground became the highest-rated televised documentary to air up to that point.
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Among other strange stories, it peddles lurid tales about Poland's post-communist leaders plotting with the communist regime to rule the country together.
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Hanging around lobbies has lost its lurid or malevolent connotations, though it's still seen as faintly sad, something to be avoided if possible.
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There's a curious logic to the way the lurid and memorable Jackson case stands in for so many other instances of prosecutorial overreach.
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Donald J. Trump berated leading party members who have withdrawn support after a recording of him demeaning women in lurid terms became public.
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Her first freestyle pieces were sea anemones in lurid, drippy glazes that sold out and won her the attention of a local gallery.
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Leafy excels at selecting lurid video titles; you can track periods in his five-year YouTube career through the different styles he employs.
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One speaker, for instance, had been implicated in a lurid child sex abuse case, thrown out after the CPS ruled the accuser unreliable.
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The president is now openly admitting to scheduling a "national emergency" because he wanted money for his wall, itself a lurid xenophobic fantasy.
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These women were all so loving, so lurid in their grace, their strength like cave stones, and it was a fucking beautiful thing.
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Even by the standards of those volumes, though, a lurid new tome by former White House communications aide Cliff Sims is dropping jaws.
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To use the language of Walter Benjamin, these podcasts offer the sometimes lurid satisfactions of story bolstered by the apparent rectitude of information.
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Ms. Choi is a daughter of the late religious figure Choi Tae-min, whose close ties with Ms. Park have spawned lurid rumors.
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"I don't recognize some of those more lurid stories that are told about the sort of things whips knew and did," she said.
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The color also evokes Trump's yellow hair and orange skin, and everything artificial and lurid about the man, his businesses, and his lifestyle.
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Then he hired an investigator to pressure Dassey to sign a confession and draw lurid pictures of crimes he said he didn't commit.
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Naturally, the crimes were described in the most lurid possible way, and the number of victims that she had potentially murdered were exaggerated.
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Then, more than a year later, investigators asked her lurid questions about her sexual positions during the encounter, according to the case files.
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Yet despite the lurid images and florid dialogue, this over-the-top adaptation of Peter Ackroyd's 1994 novel takes itself very seriously indeed.
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We walk out of the theater shocked by this lurid conclusion and uncertain whether we have just seen female bloodlust glorified or condemned.
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This is lurid stuff, yet Mr. Pearce miraculously holds things together until the end — even when his heroine fails to do the same.
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Lucas's "Chuffing Away to Oblivion" (1996) is a smoking shed, yellowed as if with decades of nicotine and lined with lurid tabloid newspapers.
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Editorial South Korea's President Park Geun-hye is embroiled in a lurid corruption scandal that threatens to hamstring her remaining year in office.
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Thunder Bay's other contribution to Canadian cooking is the Persian, an oddly named variation of the cinnamon bun topped with lurid pink icing.
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The president himself, in a speech featuring lurid descriptions of violence by immigrant gang members, suggested that police deliberately rough up criminal suspects.
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For days, before the election, Britain's tabloid press was crammed with lurid details of his coterie's alleged associations with paramilitary and Islamist organizations.
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Where Mr. Siegel went loud and lurid, Ms. Coppola has gone characteristically quiet, creating an unsettledness that Ms. Dunst nicely described as festering.
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But she has been haunted by lurid rumors, some of them claiming that she was having a romantic encounter or undergoing plastic surgery.
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There were lurid hints that top Mexican leaders might have been compromised by dirty money from the start of the trial in November.
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It provided a detailed narrative description of the evidence, including lurid sexual details, and extensive legal analysis of potential crimes by the president.
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"People are interested in the lurid, the perverse, something with a sexual tinge, something that's a little bit odd or kinky," he says.
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Notes both sour and sweet keep the film emotionally charged through the lurid events, while Mica Levi's synth score accentuates the story's bittersweet tone.
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In lurid detail, it described several cases in which he had taken advantage of his students, one of whom decades later demanded hush money.
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Except for the partly lurid, partly romantic appeal of reading about the thoughts of a drug lord, who really cares what El Chapo thinks?
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The lurid details about Andrew Cunanan and Gianni Versace in American Crime Story: Versace were pulled from Maureen Orth's tell-all book, Vulgar Favors.
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Unlike Blake Farenthold, a congressman from Texas, he did not use $84,000 of taxpayer money to settle lurid harassment claims made by an employee.
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With this new adaptation, Harebrained Schemes have made a game that captures both the lurid imaginary spectacle of mech combat, and its tactical suspense.
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The best moments in Big Little Lies happen when it shines a bright light on their dark and lurid private lives, exposing their complexities.
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Lurid pictures of him lying in a pool of blood were published, and officials suggested Russia was behind the killing, something Moscow flatly denied.
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The genre now attracts film-makers and journalists who seek to elevate their subjects from the sensational and lurid to the solemn and searching.
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Anthony, a former police detective, became a public figure during his daughter's lurid trial in 2011 for the killing of her daughter Caylee Anthony.
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"Grace" An altogether more lurid experience is offered by Pun Homchuen and Onusa Donsawai's "Grace," a Thai slasher movie with pretensions to social commentary.
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The politics of stoking fear, then suggesting a militarized solution, isn't new, but it is playing out in its most lurid forms these days.
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It seemed lurid and garish, not at all to my taste, but it was, after all, an incomplete work, and he was Chuck Close.
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On the internet, though, we actively follow intricate webs of links and often end up in lurid virtual precincts we have never previously visited.
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Blakely's first-person story follows numerous lurid accounts of senior male Google execs having extramarital affairs with junior colleagues or just outright harassing women.
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The video says the booksellers, who specialized in lurid and wildly imaginative accounts of China's political elite, had "traduced the images" of party leaders.
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It was part family drama, part lurid potboiler and part complex psychological study — topped off with secret-parentage twists and an encroaching zombie army.
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Their scenes — Ailes making Luhn dance, ordering her to her knees, video-recording her as a means of control — are horrifying, bordering on lurid.
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I think our audience really wants to see the old-world style: tutu, point shoes, wig, eyelashes, lurid red lips, over-the-top expressions.
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But even men who weren't charged have been subjected to humiliating scrutiny and lurid news coverage, with their photos often posted on social media.
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Now Peter Max's associates are trading lurid allegations of kidnapping, hired goons, attempted murder by Brazil nut and art fraud on the high seas.
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Ms. Kent and Julia Ducournau, who directed the lurid French cannibal tale "Raw," are two of the most exciting new voices in the field.
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One of Mr. Russell's most enjoyable films, "White Worm" seems a uniquely British amalgam of high camp, lurid psychedelia and rowdy Celtic folk-punk.
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The sex and violence components, which are best served hot and lurid in exercises such as these, are here puréed into PG-13 pulp.
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Imagine, if you will, an alternate universe in which Harvey Weinstein's picture is on the front page of the Post beneath a lurid headline.
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Your tan is lurid, last night's glitter sticks to your shoe, and, still a young man, you thrill to the promise of future divorces.
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When we fail to discuss these issues, we teach readers and viewers that news stories about mummies are supposed to be lurid and sensationalist.
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Even relatively popular presidents were seen as more tainted: for Ronald Reagan, there was Iran-Contra; for Bill Clinton, the lurid ripples of impeachment.
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Many of the millions of items flagged globally each week – including violent diatribes and lurid sexual imagery – are detected by automated systems, Facebook says.
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In the end, Erdogan's speech was more a reveal of his own strategy than lurid details and evidence of the murder and responsibility itself.
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Trevor is able to turn the stuff of lurid, tabloid headlines into a sad and oddly moving tale of lost opportunities and misplaced hopes.
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But there is a wide, wide gulf between giving Anne's traumatic backstory its due and turning her lurid gothic fantasies into the literal truth.
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She describes what she says happened in lurid detail ... from groping her breasts to rubbing her vagina and then forcing her to masturbate him.
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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.
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The caravan story, a lurid xenophobic fantasia that has now resulted in thousands of troops deployed on US soil, shows that those threads are snapping.
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Riverdale, CW's bold reimagining of the long running Archie comics, brings all the contradictory, lurid aspects of adolescence to the surface with a dark edge.
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A dossier compiled about alleged links between Donald Trump's campaign and Russia, and containing lurid tittle-tattle about the president-elect, was published on BuzzFeed.
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Jeff Bezos has had his own year of drama, including everything from protests outside his $80 million NYC penthouse to phone hacking and lurid photos.
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He's more interested in indulging his nostalgia for the John Carpenter-directed gems of the '80s, complete with all the lurid neons and synth soundtracks.
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That's the document filled with lurid and scandalous allegations about Trump and his advisers' ties to Russia that all involved, including Page, have heatedly denied.
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The Neon Demon is a leering, lurid bite of a movie, as cynical, vicious, and impenetrable as Swiss Army Man is earnest, sweet, and open.
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We laughed about his lurid spandex outfit when he ran laps around a gallery in Amsterdam to mark a 12-hour art conference in #metamarathon.
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The novel's drama unfolds in a series of short vignettes, each of which comes packed with larger-than-life characters, lurid thoughts and graphic deeds.
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The press was filled with lurid accounts of "wilding", described as a Harlem fad in which adolescent boys roamed the park in packs, seeking targets.
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Contrary to the lurid stories most often reported about sexting, most naked selfies and screenshots of dirty talk conversations are shared joyfully between consenting adults.
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It's a literal reimagining of a Western movie on a lurid corporate scale, where grown men—not schoolboys—act out their homicidal and genocidal fantasies.
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He is probably right to insist that, on his watch, corruption was more limited than the lurid misdeeds of which the present leadership stands accused.
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Neumann himself would soon be wrestling with bigger problems, facing a string of lurid stories about his behavior and his firm's governance and business model.
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Sports Direct's Ashley, who also owns Newcastle United soccer club, gave evidence during the case which was littered with lurid tales of boozy business meetings.
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It all felt very Showtime: gimmicky and lurid, but also witty and well paced, and good at making Wall Street transactions comprehensible to English majors.
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Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd has responded to a Forbes report on Bumble's parent company Badoo, which detailed lurid stories from the startup's earlier years.
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Now, more than ever, any chump can fashion themselves as a source of hot political intel, as long as it's sufficiently lurid and highly retweetable.
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In her debut feature, Anita Rocha da Silveira blends lurid horror with high school sex comedy, tapping into the dread, lust and alienation of adolescence.
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"That was the first big exposure people had to furries, and of course they turned it into a bunch of lurid sex references," said Lewis.
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While we've grown accustomed to spreading that lurid green paste across trays of sashimi and tuna, it probably isn't wasabi you've developed a taste for.
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Partying beside a midnight blue sea under open moonlight, drinking lurid neon cocktails, smoking cheap cigarettes and talking and laughing until our throats were sore.
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He got absorbed by the lurid celebrity circuit of London and became, for a short spell, a boxing version of alcoholic soccer player George Best.
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That Times story cast new light on Google's generally permissive culture around relationships, resulting in some lurid accounts of several male executives abusing their power.
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Lights are pinned to the rocks below, and the sea is lit in shafts of lurid green that sparkle with moths and drifting plastic bags.
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But in his final days, he helps unravel his own murder; the solution links his grim fate to a lurid world of violence and corruption.
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I rose now and wandered about the room, watching her possessively as with a tense demure consciousness of my gaze she adjusted the lurid stockings.
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Given all the fiery acting on offer, Mr. Icke's final-act surprise, a lurid pyrotechnic eruption in the courthouse, seemed a cheap and unnecessary stunt.
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Lurid speculation has been made about the "tricks" she used to "get" the King, and all kinds of sexist slurs have been directed her way.
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She is also keen to point out that a bulbous, lurid-pink bronze carving, "Politician" (2015), is not, in fact, a study of Donald Trump.
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In the 1930s he married an Austrian ballerina, but the relationship dissolved into a divorce case that was covered in lurid detail in the press.
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Publishers there have been spooked by the 2015 abduction to China of five Hong Kong booksellers who peddled lurid, poorly sourced potboilers about China's leaders.
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His father, Charles Kushner, is a real estate developer, philanthropist and major Democratic donor whose reputation was left in tatters after a lurid criminal case.
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Like The Nice Guys, it was a buddy cop thriller that relied on the kick of grisly violence and lurid sexuality to sell its thrills.
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Meanwhile, Monfries died, according to one lurid headline, "while trying to get Instagram photos" (authorities have offered no indication that taking pictures led her to fall).
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Its lurid use of sex and violence are not simply gratuitous, however; they're a tool used to demonstrate the overindulgent, sometimes disgusting nature of being human.
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Hogan's legal team is not challenging the text of Gawker's post, which described the full 30-minute video, blow by blow, in lurid and unflattering detail.
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Apparently," the statement continues, Ottinger "prefers to defame companies and individuals with lurid rumor and innuendo in the hope he will be paid to go away.
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As her mother, Ivana Trump, and father fueled the press with comments, their children saw the lurid headlines in newspaper headlines and heard gossip at school.
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He had declined induction several times, dissatisfied with what he called lurid story lines, over-the-top theatrics and drug and steroid abuse by professional wrestlers.
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Melodic, minor-key Vietnamese pop blares from the speakers as smartly turned-out young men and women sip lurid drinks, their faces lit by their phones.
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The lawsuit also described details that were so lurid — "almost cinematic in their depravity," as Jezebel's Anna Merlan put it — that they're almost hard to believe.
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A more plausible analogy is the buffonish former prime minister of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi, who fused lavish corruption, a lurid personal life, and right-wing populism.
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She slinks around the stage, occasionally wafted aloft, lit in lurid green light and holding a beckoning bottle, embodying the almost sexual temptation of the liquor.
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The lurid McCarthyite fantasy that Soros controls American diplomats has been a theme in this scandal from the beginning — Rudy Giuliani has pushed the idea repeatedly.
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OF THE explanations offered for the mysterious disappearance of five Hong Kong booksellers late last year it was both the most lurid and the most plausible.
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Though few people actually buy newspapers, the Post's stories—full of lurid details about vote-rigging and corruption—are repeated on radio stations across the country.
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Speedie's British accent was laughable, JT's biography was so lurid as to verge on the preposterous, and his writing combined pornographic content with greeting-card sentimentality.
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Following "Banshee" (crime in small-town Pennsylvania) and "Outcast" (horror in rural West Virginia), "Quarry" is another exercise in lurid pulp storytelling and sweaty regional flavor.
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At the same time, police investigations into some lurid charges against well-known figures have been closed without prosecution and sometimes with apologies to those named.
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As inscrutable narratives collide, a central thread emerges—the lurid entanglement of government surveillance and reality TV, warping the world on either side of the screen.
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Lurid details of supposed rapes of white women by black men, often entirely fabricated, were recounted in Southern papers to justify, or even to incite, lynchings.
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On their own, the various elements of the scandal, which came to light through an investigation that began in 2015, appear lurid but relatively small-time.
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These were some of the details that emerged during lurid testimony offered recently in Mr. Zhao's trial for murder at the Supreme Court of British Columbia.
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The closest we get to a hero in the sordid report — as opposed to Kenneth Starr's lurid report — is the former White House counsel Don McGahn.
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There is a long tradition of producers building tracks around wet smacks and exaggerated moans, and the lurid results range from the ecstatic to the cringeworthy.
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And Swetnick's allegations — lurid and last minute — would have been treated with well-deserved skepticism by most newsrooms had they been made even a month ago.
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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.
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Anybody raised on the kind of lurid, OTT comic books that were around in the 90s will recognize the spirit of the genre in Day's work.
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In return, we have been spied on and threatened, and have had lurid fabrications about our private lives splashed on the front page of national tabloids.
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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.
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This is not a lurid true-crime tale of jealousy and drug addiction, but a delicate human drama about love, ambition and the glories of music.
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Fast-food staffers also are vulnerable to unwanted physical advances, lurid comments, graphic pictures and gestures as they do everything from flip burgers and brew coffee.
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Lurid pictures found in the financier's home could prompt a reckoning for the Justice Department, which has been accused of mishandling the case a decade ago.
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Lurid pictures found in the financier's home could prompt a reckoning for the Justice Department, which has been accused of mishandling the case a decade ago.
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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.
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The 1993 Waco siege had all the elements of a lurid TV drama; in real life, the confrontation resulted in the deaths of over 70 people.
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Bannon infamously bragged that his website Breitbart was "the platform" for the racist alt-right movement, and regularly featured lurid tales of crimes committed by immigrants.
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The piece summarizes Ensor (1860–1949) as a fantastically idiosyncratic painter defying categorization, imagining masked grotesques in lurid primary colors, all rolling eyes and gaping visages.
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The photographer, who is known for his lurid and sexually explicit work, has faced a stream of allegations regarding sexual misconduct and exploitation since the early 2000s.
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Johnny Ray Huston interviewed him for Issue 4, and for Issue 5, Kuchar designed a selection of lurid temporary tattoos that we have slipped inside each copy.
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" Hothi's lawyers said Tesla "painted a lurid picture" of their client, and argued the company has "a history of using the legal system to silence its critics.
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One of the more lurid files describes "Weeping Angel", a program that can turn Samsung internet-connected televisions into listening devices, sending conversations back to the CIA.
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Scenes get foggier and more lurid; after Mandy's brutal but non-explicit murder, other characters spray gouts of blood as they're slashed, stabbed, or crushed to death.
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Watching a fight scene, I suddenly understood every choice the cinematographers of Daredevil made and I was astounded by the lurid colors and the artistry on display.
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We&aposve seen some shocking things in our time -- lurid misbehavior in government, entertainment, academia -- and we&aposve seen how the world has gotten more off course.
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Soon, the National Enquirer reported that Bezos' divorce was due to his affair with TV personality Lauren Sanchez and that it possessed lurid photos of the CEO.
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Britain's use in World War I of lurid tales of rapist soldiers was part of a campaign to pressure the United States into joining the war effort.
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More than two years of speculative stories and lurid headlines turned out to have no factual basis, and there are no further indictments under seal or recommended.
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Prone to lurid flights of lyricism, but never better than in its awkward silences, the production features an appropriately uncomfortable cast directed by Mr. Rapp (1:30).
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Mr. Hearst, a publisher of lurid tabloid newspapers serving his first term in Congress, was crushed in the balloting as the party leaders of 1904 rejected him.
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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.
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In "Burning Down the House," Ms. Mendelsohn scoops up and embraces every available potboiler cliché and lurid plot development — including incest, rape, arson, murder and human trafficking.
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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.
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Turkish officials have been leaking lurid details for weeks about the assassination and reported dismemberment of the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi in the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul.
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Over the course of the trial in Federal District Court in Brooklyn, six former Nxivm members offered wrenching and sometimes lurid accounts of manipulation and sexual abuse.
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Among the most awkward was surely the one for CBS, which has been embroiled in increasingly lurid sexual harassment revelations involving Leslie Moonves, its ousted chief executive.
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Related: A lurid online campaign that has targeted a Chinese activist now living in Canada appears to have the hallmarks of an attack by the Communist Party.
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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.
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The waiter passed out the shots, some indeterminate liqueur in a lurid blue, and everyone waited until everyone else had been served, so as to drink together.
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Australians are among the leading visitors to the holiday island of Bali and the country's Daily Telegraph newspaper carried a lurid headline on Friday: "Bali Sex Ban".
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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.
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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.
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Plenty of observers have questioned the dossier's accuracy; its claims are, after all, both remarkably lurid and conveniently topical, and it is notably light on specific sources.
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The moment is slick, lurid pulp, combining sex, violence, and surprise into a big-bang opener that immediately demands your attention and previews the movie to come.
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Nine years of immersive research led to "Thy Neighbour's Wife", in which he wove histories of pornography and obscenity law with lurid tales of sex gurus and swingers.
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This is what it sounds when you describe environmentalists from inside the conservative bubble, based on lurid Fox News stereotypes, having rarely or never actually talked with one.
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For many people, Waco is a lurid story about a cult — a story that has lent itself to decades of sensationalist media coverage (and, recently, a television miniseries).
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Much of this account, like the prince's motives, is questionable, The lurid tone may have been useful: the Yusupovs lost most of their vast fortune in the revolution.
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He has made several lurid, doomy films alleging that working families have been sold out by rootless, corrupt elites, who stood by and profited as immigrants flooded in.
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In the same way, lurid crimes that dominate the news cycle at particular moments in our lives tend to stick with this in an uncomfortable but undeniable way.
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Pulp cover artists recognized the American appetite for lurid and violent imagery, and the Wolfsonian is exploring the social issues embedded in their illustrations in a new exhibition.
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As America's presidential election approached, WikiLeaks disseminated lurid conspiracy theories around the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton, and asked the Russians for stolen emails relating to Mrs Clinton.
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Robert Bentley, who resigned from office last year amid a lurid sex scandal, has not ruled out a run for U.S. Senate in 2020 against incumbent Doug Jones.
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Her photograph of Mr. Gomet, who died in the 24 hours after the attacks, was published in VSD, a glossy weekly magazine known for its lurid celebrity stories.
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It must be said that they and Mr. Rapp (who also directed) appear to be having a high old time in this lurid melodrama with music (1:45).
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It must be said that they and Mr. Rapp (who also directed) appear to be having a high old time in this lurid melodrama with music (246:24111).
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It must be said that they and Mr. Rapp (who also directed) appear to be having a high old time in this lurid melodrama with music (2222:251).
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It must be said that they and Mr. Rapp (who also directed) appear to be having a high old time in this lurid melodrama with music (200:2195).
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It must be said that they and Mr. Rapp (who also directed) appear to be having a high old time in this lurid melodrama with music (21978:21).
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It must be said that they and Mr. Rapp (who also directed) appear to be having a high old time in this lurid melodrama with music (1:23).
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It must be said that they and Mr. Rapp (who also directed) appear to be having a high old time in this lurid melodrama with music (2126:2800).
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It must be said that they and Mr. Rapp (who also directed) appear to be having a high old time in this lurid melodrama with music (200:2530).
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They may not agree with all of his more lurid attacks — although some clearly do — but they see in him the archetype of a successful if boastful businessman.
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Given the lurid, heart-palpitating details of Lister's diaries, one might think that Gentleman Jack would be a steamy show when it comes to women in the bedroom.
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His appointment comes amid a time of intense public scrutiny for WeWork in the wake of its shelved IPO and lurid reports about its company culture under Neumann.
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It was a lurid distraction from a pair of uneven episodes that show our characters increasingly beholden to, and lost in, the violent chaos of the new world.
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Then, when he returned to fashion in 2015, Mr. Galliano also returned to clowns, showcasing lurid, cartoonish makeup in his first ready-to-wear collection for Maison Margiela.
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Thank heavens Jim Hosking's lurid live-action cartoon, "The Greasy Strangler," found financing, because this oddity — borrowing liberally from a precious, vanishing institution, midnight movies — invites strong reactions.
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Lurid controversies, mostly centered on Donald J. Trump, the Republican nominee, have dominated the summer, including topless photos of his wife and accounts of his questionable business dealings.
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The details were lurid: The boy told police officers in Temple Terrace, Florida, that he had sex with Lafave three times in four days, according to court documents.
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It must be said that they and Mr. Rapp (who also directed) appear to be having a high old time in this lurid melodrama with music (2745:223).
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The media has calved in two, with an entire shadow right-wing media capturing the near-exclusive attention of movement conservatives, descending into increasingly baroque and lurid fantasies.
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He cited Carmody's reception of the report, which showed lurid details of Adachi's cocaine-fueled final hours, and his sale of the resulting story to local news outlets.
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Yet now, in the strange, lurid nightmare that is 2016, it's hard to tell if Black Mirror is more necessary than ever, or has been rendered completely redundant.
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Characters like PewDiePie, for all their shouty catchphrases and lurid video titles, have done their part in making one of the weirdest parts of the web seem antiseptic.
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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.
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His second wife recently published a memoir that included allegations of lurid indiscretions in Mr. Khan's private life; he has let that roll off his back as well.
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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.
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This could come across as gratuitously lurid, not least because the narrative is focused on and through Bakhita, whose psychological scarring is outpaced only by her physical scarring.
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Although the details of the childhood trauma that caused her crackup are impossibly lurid, Rose proves far more likable than the stock female victims in this noir series.
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Edward Grazda, working in the 21981s and early '280s, depicts a more chaotic city than Weegee's, and Grazda wasn't even looking for lurid subjects to feed the tabloids.
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The best-selling "Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book" set the tone for food photography back in 1950, with page after page of lurid baked hams and frosted cookies.
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James Woods, exuding smarmy charisma, is Max, an executive at a small cable station broadcasting lurid images pilfered from satellite signals; think public access with kink and ultraviolence.
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What struck Spanberger now in the room, listening to Trump recount plot lines straight out of some lurid action movie, was that he clearly believed all of it.
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And yet, on Wednesday, vandals attacked a memorial to Mohandas K. Gandhi, painted "traitor" in lurid green across his picture, and may have stolen some of his ashes.
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But Bava, best known as a progenitor of giallo — a lurid, colorful, perverse and blood-drenched brand of Italian horror — would probably have been quite cool with that.
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"Practically everything that the world loosely regards as sin is detailed in the vivid, lurid, salacious language of smut, prostitution, and dirt," the judge observed of Miller's novel.
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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.
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Subsequent reports provided lurid details about the company's lewd party culture, including the fact that employees had to be told not to have sex in the office stairwell.
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Propped against a wall was a large wooden panel bearing the image of a lurid Devil with a distended scrotum: "Castrati Satan," a 1995 work by Mike Kelley.
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Most of them borrow from the style of the lurid Italian films called giallos: Cult-picture aficionados will be tipped off by the bright yellow hotel-room phone.
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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.
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The documentary portrayed the prosecutor's lurid description of the rape and murder of Ms. Halbach in front of a bank of news microphones as polluting the potential juror pool.
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Given the lurid allegations against Epstein and the prospect of months of revelations that may look bad for Acosta, the President may just decide he doesn't need the headache.
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A sexy robot, with chrome curves, whose voluptuous metal figure makes the light reflected onto her surface resemble something lurid, like splotches of bodily fluids, on her gold pumps.
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Doe was shocked, she says in the suit, but felt so indebted to him that she did whatever he asked, even as the requests grew increasingly lurid: Belly dance.
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But it takes on a more lurid horror, and a more metaphorical one when it turns out those same white characters are stealing black bodies for a nefarious purpose.
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Some of the details are lurid and personal, and I wonder how the reporters could have known what they published until I learn that 911 calls are public records.
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In it, Daniels — an adult performer who says she slept with Donald Trump and was paid to keep quiet about it — has some lurid details about the president's genitals.
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Governments like Poland's sabotage their own case when they promulgate lurid horror stories about migrants or, worse, undermine the democratic values to which they signed up as EU members.
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"This is yet another lurid production in an outrageous and pathetic attempt to exploit and cash in on Michael Jackson," the Jackson estate said in a statement in January.
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The latter was shot in Technicolor, and Sherman's most recent body of work, with its deeply saturated color, brings to mind Sirk's lurid palette, so well-suited to melodrama.
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While waiting for India's notoriously slow legal system, McKeown has had to field a barrage of lurid accusations about drug use by her daughter and the teen's sex life.
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Nowhere was this more evident than when Cooper dragged out and multiplied the questions about the just-leaked "Access Hollywood" tapes of Donald Trump making lurid comments about women.
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The overriding tone of these discussions is a mixture of lurid interest and small-town hysteria, with users desperate for clues to inspire or reinforce their own unproven theories.
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The suggestion of incestuous love, lurid descriptions of insect-eating and serial murder, a squirmingly-uncomfortable portrayal of a minor sexual assault—British theatre didn't know how to respond.
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Rather, the directors, Brian McGinn and Rod Blackhurst, have produced a tightly edited, coherently structured and ultimately moving reassessment that burrows beneath the lurid in search of the illuminating.
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The tabloid had published lurid texts that proved that the Amazon founder and CEO, whose divorce from his wife of 25 years was already pending, was having an affair.
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Neumann stepped down as WeWork's CEO on September 1663 after a string of lurid stories about the firm's business model, its governance, and his behaviour while running the company.
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"The Slater case, while lurid, is just a symptom of a much larger problem — how to prevent harassment, and effectively deal with it when it occurs," the letter said.
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But for Trump and his campaign, Abedin's background and closeness to Clinton make her an ideal figure to cast in lurid tales about terrorist sleeper cells and lesbian intrigue.
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened Sunday to explode Turkish-Saudi relations by making public lurid details of Jamal Khashoggi's gruesome death at the hands of a Saudi assassination squad.
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"London Fields" by Martin Amis Does Amis have us right where we wants us, clothing his acid, linguistically ingenious postmodern noir in the lurid trappings of ironic genre narrative?
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Star's infamous 1998 Starr Report laid out Clinton's sexual liaisons with a White House intern in lurid, minute detail, and resulted in the first presidential impeachment in 130 years.
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"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.
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Beyond the lurid details of the Nxivm case is a story of a bright, beloved young woman in Hollywood who became enthralled by the teachings of a twisted leader.
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But the pages that immediately follow paint a more lurid picture, giving the distinct impression that college kids are fornicating willy-nilly, like so many bunnies in a hutch.
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In the perverse, lurid video beheadings of American journalist James Foley and other journalists; in the burning, alive in a cage, of Jordanian air force pilot Moath al-Kasasbeh.
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The beats abound with whooshing keyboards, breathy vocoders, slick rhythm guitars, and splashes of electronic color as lurid as the pink clouds and blue sky on the album cover.
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Revelations that the president's office had bought hundreds of doses of Viagra and equivalent drugs have touched off a frenzy of wisecracks, speculation and lurid rumors in South Korea.
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Lurid cases of sexual abuse by the police have been reported in the news media in recent years, but many say that the problem has not received sufficient attention.
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The living room walls were painted a lurid shade of blue, and everything else had been doused in a color that I can only describe as nicotine-tinged ivory.
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Lurid personal attacks, insinuations of vote-rigging, rampant conspiracy theories — I might have been in Pakistan, where I lived for nine years, or at my current base in Egypt.
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Both in last and this season, we don't really return to the scene of the crime, we try not to get graphic in terms of visual presentation of the crime, but really focus on the people, the circumstance, what they're going through, and give the audience a level of emotional connectivity, where it's not just putting harsh photographs and imagery in front of people and being lurid for the sake of being lurid.
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However, Schmid noted that documentaries like "Serial" and "Making a Murderer" are a far cry from the lurid, melodramatic true crime narratives of past decades that seemed to celebrate killers.
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Amidst Sausage Party's whirlpool of lurid sex jokes and on-those-nose gags — like a character who is a lesbian, Latina taco shell — is a story about religion and empathy.
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Recalling a lurid past full of sex and murder, her memories are compressed into numbers that have refrains and lyrical flights but not quite the firm structure of traditional arias.
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The lurid greenish-yellow of its outer surface (inside, the gaping orifices are white) makes you realize that, by comparison, a relatively restrained palette is the rule for Guillot's work.
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Even the most important event of the racing year, the Melbourne Cup, isn't without its lurid outfits amongst the sea pastel polyester shirts, white loafers, bodycon dresses and nude heels.
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The broader world can lean ever more aggressively into a progressively more lurid and self-consuming madness while, at the same time, flattening all strangeness out of the cultural landscape.
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Given his long record of conspiracy-mongering, it's unquestionable that he'll deploy the many lurid stories that have long circled around the Clintons, and no doubt cook up new ones.
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" Michael's estate has also repeatedly denied the allegations in the film, calling it "another lurid production in an outrageous and pathetic attempt to exploit and cash in on Michael Jackson.
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The Kardashian family is famous for broadcasting their private lives in lurid detail — but one advocacy group says they don't share enough when it comes to paid social media gigs.
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While many liberals may long for politics to go "back to normal," the fact remains that "normal"—while less constantly and ostentatiously lurid than the Trump era—was also horrific.
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The panic included lurid coverage of "white slavery" and stoked fear that Chinese men were using opium to seduce white women and girls into a life of degradation and crime.
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He allegedly carried around a notebook with multiple entries that the court filings says "repeatedly describe lurid and sexual acts including multiple entries detailing his intention to sexually assault" Bullock.
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Beyond this lurid history, the China-Pakistan axis today contributes to a balance of power both in South Asia and across the Asia-Pacific that is unfavorable to American interests.
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But the trespasses involved in the Vegas massacre have far less to do with the lurid imagery of the Book of Revelation than with the workaday modern face of evil.
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In the original 1990–91 ABC series, Lynch and Frost borrowed elements from serialized TV, like daytime soaps and police procedurals, and classic Hollywood, like film noir and lurid melodramas.
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Perhaps the most lurid example is whom the government chose to prosecute: Rather than go after the police who committed the sexual torture, the state initially prosecuted the women instead.
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He has adopted a ready-made: the sinless version of Shostakovich peddled by "Testimony," supplemented by the most lurid tales from Ms. Wilson's argosy and a published letter or two.
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If they were interested in the narrative problems of the crime, the listener was no longer obsessing over lurid violence; they were considering the relation between truth, language, and reality.
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His subject is Shinjuku, the neighborhood around Tokyo's major train station, historically not unlike Times Square: filled with bars and love hotels, rife with low-level crime and lurid advertising.
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Its trailer has an over-the-top, apocalyptic feel: lurid footage of bombs dropping on cities alternating with grainy clips of Reagan speeches, as a choir provides a soaring soundtrack.
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And again, while Singer has always denied these allegations, today's Twitter flare-up is far from the first time his name's been mentioned in the same breath as lurid misconduct.
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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.
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Damien had no real problems with his penis to begin with, so for him there was not one single benefit of having this lurid turtle neck dangling off his bits.
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Near a lurid oil painting illustrating her demise, a glass display case held a few artifacts: an embroidered purse; her chikhti-kopi , broken down into lace veil and black arc.
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On another level, it sets the stage for a retelling of Shakespeare's play as a lurid melodrama about a German industrialist family during the early years of the Third Reich.
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They're asking why fast-firing, modified battlefield weapons with large ammunition clips should ever be legally marketed to disturbed and in many cases unhinged civilians via lurid, macho-steeped advertising.
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If nothing else, the lurid tale has shined a sustained spotlight on a corner of the city that often makes headlines for gun violence but rarely grips the public imagination.
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The fate of the vessel, and of Europe, in the not-too-distant future is gradually and deliberately revealed over the course of this lurid, sometimes spooky, often hilarious show.
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His lurid 1864 painting "Man Proposes, God Disposes" featured two jubilantly ravenous polar bears gnawing on human bones amid the ruins of a ship and objects like a broken telescope.
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"It's not a cradle-to-grave biopic," Mr. Hudlin said of the film, which is about a lurid rape trial the lawyer handled in 1941, when he was just 32.
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Another start-up, Upload, was able to quietly settle a lurid lawsuit (a "kink room" encouraged employees to have sex in the office), and go on with business as usual.
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He chronicles her relatively short career, including the lurid gossip — incest, sexual escapades, mental illness — that swirled around her, while giving her own voice a prominent role in the biography.
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The UK's response will certainly be tougher than in 2012, when Russia was found to have fatally poisoned another former spy on British soil, Alexander Litvinenko, using similarly lurid means.
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But while the attention is welcome, it seems to be largely hot air — and Trump's lurid descriptions of trafficking seem mostly to be a misleading rationale for his border wall.
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In perhaps the most lurid episode, Mr. López was caught in June at a convent outside Buenos Aires with a semiautomatic rifle, expensive watches and nearly $9 million in cash.
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"Corp + Anam," from the Irish-language channel TG4, is a bare-bones, lurid drama about a ruthless TV reporter whose Gaelic dialogue has to be subtitled in its own country.
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Lurid rumors have since spread about what she was doing during those hours; one such story says she was having a romantic liaison, another that she was undergoing plastic surgery.
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"'Split' is lurid and ludicrous, and sometimes more than a little icky in its prurient, maudlin interest in the abuse of children," A. O. Scott wrote in his Times review.
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In Brooklyn Heights, a lurid red-and-gold chamber described by the building manager as "a little bordelloesque inside" comes complete with black leather divan suitable for a reclining odalisque.
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Beyond the lurid celebrity connection, however, lies the wretched story of women who the police believe were brought from China under false promises of new lives and legitimate spa jobs.
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Edo State, Nigeria (CNN)In a lurid pink hotel room in Edo State, southern Nigeria, a trafficker is arranging to smuggle us across the continent to Libya -- and ultimately Europe.
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But removed from misplaced seasonal expectations, Crimson Peak is a visually rich director's showcase that calls to mind lurid reference points like the works of Roger Corman and Mario Bava.
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By the year 2000, more and more top players wore lurid colours promoting Nike and Adidas, which in previous decades would have led to derogatory (and sometimes even homophobic) terrace chants.
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Mr Dreher's zeal and sincerity are attractive, but not all readers, even devout ones, will be drawn to his divisive purism or convinced by his lurid picture of "hostile secular nihilism".
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Its most lurid tale described a Russian peasant fleeing wolves on a sled, who—unable to outpace the slavering pack—escaped by hurling her children, one by one, to their deaths.
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His favored platform is in the courts, where he has filed and been the subject of numerous lawsuits, and television, where he makes forceful if often lurid pronouncements against his rivals.
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Jeffrey Epstein's Upper East Side mansion has become notorious for its reportedly macabre interior decor, immense size and monetary value, and as the site of some of his lurid alleged crimes.
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Baghdadi himself is thought to have authorized the gruesome execution of American journalist James Foley, whose lurid video provoked the Obama White House to take firmer military action against the group.
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Whatever was left of Trump's personal character in the minds of most voters died with the media's continued attention to the leaked "Access Hollywood" tape of his lurid comments about women.
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It clearly didn't count when the bulk of American voters elected Bill Clinton president even when his lurid sexual past was widely reported and discussed during both of his presidential campaigns.
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The file, which was published by BuzzFeed in January, contained unverified and lurid allegations about dirt the Russians had on then-candidate Donald Trump and his campaign's possible connections to Moscow.
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While the lurid details of Trump's past dominated news cycles, we missed what our intelligence agencies were trying to tell us — that the Russians were, in fact, meddling in the election.
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Not only did they envisage Mercury's death as the midpoint in Queen's story, he said, but they also wanted to leave out the more lurid details of his notoriously hedonistic life.
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If this is not sufficiently lurid, Azzam accompanies these works with boulders and debris strewn throughout the gallery, leading to an installation of rubble that filters down a large industrial stairway.
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Published on Thursday, the Amazon CEO's Medium post contained plenty of lurid detail about the intimate photos the newspaper was threatening to release if he did not comply with their demands.
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In Giuliani&aposs zeal to represent his client, he has unleashed vitriolic verbal attacks on the credibility, morality and ethics of Cohen, using words and innuendo too lurid to recount here.
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The downside is that they do not see the benefits of espionage, and have a lurid fear (mixed perhaps with envy) of what spy services, particularly American ones, get up to.
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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".
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"The arms race of ever-more-lurid claims and counter-claims made by both the Leave and Remain sides is not just confusing the public," the committee's chairman Andrew Tyrie, said.
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In Red Mafiya, his book about the rise of the Russian mob in America, investigative reporter Robert I. Friedman documented how Ivankov organized a lurid and violent underworld of tattooed gangsters.
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They started the campaign after seeing national coverage that focused on gunman James Holmes—his sinister visage, how he killed twelve people so quickly, and other lurid aspects of his story.
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No one has painted a more vivid or lurid portrait of a purported alliance between Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russia than a quiet, nondescript former British spy named Christopher Steele.
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But his cartoons were always so lurid, so gaudy, tactless, and fundamentally stupid that they were effectively defanged; all his poisonous ideology was neutered by the sheer silliness of its presentation.
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The lurid rantings of such people regularly make it into parliamentary mail bags, as I have witnessed both working in one MP's office and visiting dozens of others as a journalist.
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"From its air of decadence to its prowling camera movements, this is a Claude Chabrol film from lurid start to surrealistic finish," Manohla Dargis wrote in her review for The Times.
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The Grand Guignol — whose dark and lurid stage shows (with fake blood spurting) were designed to frighten its audiences — neatly matched Professor Gordon's interests in theatrical history and grotesque cultural phenomena.
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DWIGHT GARNER One is Deborah Eisenberg's book of stories, "Your Duck Is My Duck"; another is Christopher Bonanos's "Flash," his biography of the tabloid photographer Weegee, which cast a lurid glow.
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So when, on Saturday, he told a particularly lurid lie about infanticide at a political rally in Wisconsin, it was, like so much in this administration, at once shocking and unsurprising.
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In 1998, Ken Starr gave lawmakers a long report that contained detailed narrative description of the evidence, including lurid sexual details and extensive legal analysis of potential crimes by the president.
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A young woman who attends Ms. Wolff's vocational school, but asked to not be named so she could speak more freely, described lurid stories of refugee wrongdoing she'd read on Facebook.
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One is pale and serene, and dotted with slithery brown trees and storybook animals and birds; the other pairs lurid purples and pinks with clunky white waves curling along the bottom.
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Around the state on Friday, lawmakers from both parties urged Mr. Greitens to quit and lamented what they said was a lurid, time-consuming distraction from the business of governing Missouri.
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The details released from that investigation in the past three years painted a lurid picture of a Malaysian leader and his family members and friends living high on diverted public money.
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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.
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His material is a combination of blistering topical musings on religion and politics and often lurid and crude tales of his own life, now mostly focused on the world of fatherhood.
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Although the Egyptian news media and some officials have for weeks floated lurid theories about how Mr. Regeni died, many Egyptians are becoming increasingly vocal about their alarm over the case.
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She also winds up in what sounds like an extremely lurid situation: bound and gagged, naked and helpless, about to be tortured by a man she knows is a sadistic killer.
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Two years later, allegations about Mr. O'Reilly entered the public arena in lurid fashion when a producer on his show, Andrea Mackris, then 22013, filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against him.
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A reader can't help noting that anti-liberal polemics, today as in the lurid polemical pasts that Mishra revisits, always have more force and gusto than liberalism's defenses have ever had.
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A young woman who attends Ms. Wolff's vocational school, but asked to not be named so she could speak more freely, described lurid stories of refugee wrongdoing she'd read on Facebook.
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Defendants can't wipe the often lurid ads off televisions and the Internet because the U.S. Supreme Court confirmed lawyers' First Amendment right to advertise for clients in 1972's Bates v.
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Gretchen Carlson's brave decision to sue Ailes and testify to his lurid, exploitative behavior—and the testimony from other women which followed—made it impossible for Murdoch to keep him around.
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In the course of those interrogations, the boy, who earlier claimed to have no knowledge of Halbach, gradually describes an increasingly lurid torture scene that culminates in her murder by gunshot.
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On Riccardo Hernandez's set, adorned with a lurid mural of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Mr. Alfaro riffs on his Greek source, but this play is a negative of the Sophocles original.
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I was the only other person on the lurid sex tape — the one involving a 14-year-old girl — that landed the self-proclaimed Pied Piper of R&B in court.
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The killing of the cub happened beyond view of the bear cams situated near the river's waterfall, where salmon collect and bears congregate, so streamed footage of the lurid event wasn't captured.
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Other works are more wedded to reality, such as "Roof with Snow" (1916), despite its lurid patches of red snow clinging to a dramatically pitched green-black roof and turquoise-gray dormer.
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That helps explain the lurid headlines in recent days describing how Facebook AI researchers in a "panic" were "forced" to "kill" their "creepy" bots that had started speaking in their own language.
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Here was a man who was supposed to protect me trying to force himself upon me, a narrative I had seen in so many lurid cases of police officers abusing their authority.
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Last year the 43-year-old got a suspended 24-day ban and $22016,219 fine after making lurid remarks about Swiss Wawrinka's girlfriend during their match at the Rogers Cup in Montreal.
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The Chinese authorities are also waging a bitter campaign against another billionaire, Guo Wengui, who, from self-imposed exile, has been making lurid accusations of corruption at the top of the party.
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The Department of Justice had just released a detailed description of how AMI executives coordinated with Cohen to kill lurid stories of extramarital affairs in order to benefit then-candidate Trump's campaign.
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Federal investigators claim the lurid texts were exchanged between Kellar, a divorced father of two, and Burnworth as the former was traveling to San Jose as well as in the days prior.
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The opinions expressed here are their own.) By By Chris Jackson and Alanna Spurlock Nov 3 (Reuters) - It looks like this absurd and lurid presidential election will remain unpredictable until the end.
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China's regulators, however, have been driving a fierce crackdown against online content deemed to be in violation of "socialist core values", or that contains elements that are violent, lurid, or politically sensitive.
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Mr. Cruz "often dwelled on the lurid details of murders that other clerks tended to summarize before quickly moving to the legal merits of the case," The Times reported earlier this year.
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The Starr report "was a perversion of what a prosecutor should do, and it went for the lurid details instead of staying within its scope, and it was blatantly partisan," Cotter said.
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Instead, the lurid and emotional language he used to describe the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border could be used to lay the groundwork for an eventual declaration, if it is made.
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There had never been anything quite like it in painting, and it stood far apart from the formally conservative, lurid fantasizing of Salvador Dali , Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy, and other Surrealist painters.
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They go to the movies; we see them watching a trailer for a lurid horror film; then they stand up with the rest of the audience and stay still for a while.
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He went so over the top in his painting of lurid conspiracy theories about bankers that the main question we discussed in the media was about Trump's trafficking in anti-Semitic stereotypes.
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But oh, that music is achingly lovely, and so is Jack O'Brien's somber direction, with the lurid lights of the carousel gleaming relentlessly out from between choreographer Justin Peck's ever-moving dancers.
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The California-based auction house Julien's traffics primarily in celebrity memorabilia, from the lurid (like property from Sharon Tate's estate) to the recognizably iconic (like Marilyn Monroe's "Happy Birthday Mr. President" dress).
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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.
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But for most South Koreans, the real drama is that Ms. Choi is the daughter of a religious figure whose relationship with Ms. Park had long been the subject of lurid rumors.
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This month a Lebanese woman, Mona el-Mazbouh, was arrested after releasing a 10-minute video in which she complained, in lurid terms, about being sexually harassed on the streets of Cairo.
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Trump and many of his allies have alleged that it was the now-infamous Steele dossier, a document filled with lurid allegations about Trump's links to Russia, that drew the FBI's interest.
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"Tristan" (which had its premiere in 1865), with its intense chromaticism and eroticism, begot a series of even more lurid operas, including "Salome" (1905), which Hans Neuenfels has directed for the Staatsoper.
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The lurid saga of Rurik Jutting came to an end in Hong Kong early this month when the former British banker was convicted of murdering two Indonesian women at his luxury apartment.
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Nevertheless, they soon co-opted them to represent chastity: Only a virgin could wear a bridal wreath, which might be burned on her wedding night, a lurid metaphor for loss of innocence.
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The wispy ball gown Ms. Paltrow wore to the Met Gala this year was inspired, she told onlookers, by a similar dress from "Valley of the Dolls," the shamelessly lurid 1967 melodrama.
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To further its goal of "neutralizing King as an effective Negro leader" (as a 20173 F.B.I. memo put it), the bureau peddled lurid details of his sex life to journalists and politicians.
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"This is yet another lurid production in an outrageous and pathetic attempt to exploit and cash in on Michael Jackson," the Jackson estate said about Leaving Neverland in a statement in January.
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The media also shouldn't be providing lurid, step-by-step details on how these crimes happen, according to author Loren Coleman, nor write articles that contribute to the criminal's need for attention.
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He refuses to have Richard Hess (Paul Niebanck) questioned because they were both heading to the same lurid party in Arlington Heights; doing so would ruin Sweeney's chances of becoming an ambassador.
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Lurid rumors about Ms. Park's connection to the Choi family have dogged her for years, and many have come to believe that Ms. Choi wields a sinister, cultlike influence over the president.
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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.
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The clothing in his spring/summer 2011 collection was techno-couture, crafted from airy synthetic fabrics specially chosen to take a lurid selection of fluorescent dyes, like hazmat orange and highlighter pink.
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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.
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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.
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Airing commercial-free on Investigation Discovery, a basic-cable network usually devoted to lurid true crime, the special focuses on a trio of mass shootings in three geographically diverse locales: Parkland, Fla.
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Comprised of lurid listings for imaginary TV shows, TVGoHome (the name was inspired by a piece of xenophobic graffiti) gave Brooker a format in which to hone his gift for brutal extrapolation.
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In 2011, he released "The Skin I Live In," a lurid thriller in which a plastic surgeon operates on the man who raped his daughter, transforming him into his own female lover.
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Another, more lurid, example came from Austria, where the conservative Chancellor, Sebastian Kurz, had bought the support of the extremist Freedom Party by making its leader, Heinz-Christian Strache, his Vice-Chancellor.
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On the day of the first Presidential debate, on Long Island, another lurid political spectacle was under way thirty miles due west: the Bridgegate trial, in the Newark, New Jersey, federal courthouse.
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But, while I found "Vinyl" to be a slog, I can't stop watching "Billions," which, under its lurid surface, is smartly paced and frank—even thoughtful—about the disconcerting fantasies it provokes.
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In The Silkworm Rowling is largely concerned with literary losers: the victim is a pretentious author of awful literary fiction, Owen Quine, and he's killed in a particularly lurid and horrific fashion.
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Now entering his ninth month in office, Duterte is known for a surprising combination of violence and compassion, tied together by lurid invectives that dot his often rambling and profane public comments.
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In 27, R. Kelly was indicted after a video surfaced showing a man engaged in lurid sex acts with a woman who some witnesses testified was 21 at the time of the recording.
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Though she was crushed not to earn another nod for Baby Jane, the film gave her career a lucrative third act with a series of similarly lurid thrillers like Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte.
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Exposing his lurid and allegedly criminal behavior proved a tough assignment, not just because of the courage required for victims to go on the record but because of legal agreements that muzzle them.
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Honor has traditionally chosen bright, lurid colors for the designs of its devices, but the Honor 503 Pro's design tones this down a little in the two colors that are available at launch.
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That&aposs when Fusion hired Christopher Steel, the former British intel officer who wrote the now infamous Steele dossier, a document filled with lurid allegations about Donald Trump that had been widely discredited.
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But despite her acquittal, Borden continued to suffer in the court of public opinion, as newspaper readers across the country greedily consumed the salacious story, told with exaggerations, half-truths and lurid headlines.
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Maureen Dowd HOLLYWOOD — THEY were dramas that drilled into the most sensitive parts of the national psyche, searing and dividing us with lurid sexual images and racial grievances as old as the nation.
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Among the more lurid predictions are those by Marc Roche, Le Monde's correspondent in London, who imagines Britain ending up as a "tax haven at Europe's gates" and "China's Trojan horse in Europe".
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Then, a secret dossier, compiled by a former British spy and filled with lurid, unsubstantiated reports, went public, alleging that Trump had been compromised by Russian intelligence — and was largely under their control.
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To give this van its lurid lemon lumps, Wurm packed different types of styrofoam and putty on top of an ordinary VW T2, and sprayed it with a glossy coat of car paint.
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Dopamine appears to be one of the firm's last deals before both Sacca and Mazzeo became embroiled in the sexual misconduct scandals that swept the venture industry during 2017's long, lurid summer.
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Brands courting customers with sporting wares play a similar game: Nike's media men wax lyrical about the firm's lurid yellow shoes, boasting that its patented shade is "the most visible version of yellow".
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His top selection, dubbed "Tech Cannibalism," depicts a member of Papua New Guinea's Huli tribe mid-selfie—with a lurid red phone case that matches the traditional body paint on his bare chest.
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Almost immediately, she was lost in the labyrinth of works for sale: Takashi Murakami's lurid blond plastic milkmaids with long legs and erect nipples; the words "any messages?" spelled out in neon tubing.
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The vivid and lurid ads brilliantly evoked the fear and anxiety then felt by middle-class, middle-aged white voters in Middle America, a constituency Trump views as his own path to power.
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Despite its owner being a man who made his fortune trading in seductive women, this museum was hardly a man's lurid collection of ancient erotica à la The Handmaiden that one might expect.
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Of course, that's not to say that cocktails can't also mean a lurid pink hen weekend on Blackpool promenade in February, nor that trainers can't be something high-end and desirable—collectable, even.
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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.
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Beyond the lurid details of the case is a story of a bright, beloved young woman in Hollywood who longed for enlightenment, but instead became enthralled by the teachings of a twisted leader.
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This dopey action thriller harks back to grindhouse pictures of the '70s and '80s, although it's too tasteful, if that's the word, to consistently exploit the more lurid implications of its sensationalist scenario.
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But later, as plots and characters turned increasingly lurid (especially at EC, a Marvel competitor that published titles like Tales From the Crypt and The Vault of Horror), many adults clamored for censorship.
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She added that the revolt against the lurid stripes was the work of "pompous idiots" who resented her wealth and who wrongly feared that the audaciously painted house would bring down property prices.
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Fact check: This statement is intriguing coming from Starr, given that his leadership of the Whitewater investigation quickly ballooned into a sprawling probe that included lurid details of President Bill Clinton's sex life.
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Set in an invented colonial country on the verge of native rebellion, it's explicitly allegorical, a fable of societal upheaval lighted with flashes of gorgeous, lurid imagery, like something out of Henri Rousseau.
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Tip Top's drinks are simple and generous—a beer-and-shot special is five dollars—and a good deal for anyone who's not a lurid teetotaler with billions of dollars of shady debt.
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Fact check: This statement is intriguing coming from Starr, given that his leadership of the Whitewater investigation quickly ballooned into a sprawling probe that included lurid details of President Bill Clinton's sex life.
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Then-CEO and cofounder Adam Neumann was pushed out after a string of lurid stories about his conduct and personality, and WeWork is now run by co-CEOs Artie Minson and Sebastian Gunningham.
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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.
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The confessions he recounted were lurid and dramatic, strewn with provocative details that prosecutors used not just to show the guilt of the defendants but also to establish that they were diabolically evil.
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A few years later, Basic Instinct — the story of a homicide detective who begins a lurid affair with a homicide suspect — pulled in more than $213 million, as well as two Oscar nominations.
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In 2002, R. Kelly was indicted after a video surfaced showing a man engaged in lurid sex acts with a woman who some witnesses testified was 14 at the time of the recording.
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And we shouldn't be surprised at all that Mr. Trump's lurid personal failings haven't caused a break with the leaders of his party's establishment: They decided long ago that only Democrats have scandals.
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House leaders have said nothing since it was revealed Friday that Representative Blake Farenthold of Texas used $84,000 from a secret taxpayer fund to settle a lurid sexual harassment case filed against him.
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Instead of the lurid human carnival she knew from other photographs of Coney Island, Ms. Welles, 49, who gave up a law career to pursue photography, saw a quieter tableau of collective escape.
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She stopped and smiled at a lurid ceramic sculpture, a miniature with a cartoon quality called "The Mad Doctor's Operation" by Clayton Bailey and Peter Saul from the 1970s Bay Area Funk movement.
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Lurid reports of misconduct followed, many of them in The Chicago Sun-Times, including accounts from women who said that Mr. Kelly had sex with them when they were as young as 15.
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Not so long ago, it was the bastard stepchild of storytelling, a way for people to gawk openly at the lurid entrails of murder and violence, especially when the victims were young and hot.
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To make matters worse, once the prosecution was armed with Brendan Dassey's confession, the district attorney Kenneth Kratz held a press conference, at which he described a possible version of events in lurid detail.
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Consider 2016's The Neon Demon, a lurid high-fashion fantasia from Nicolas Winding Refn in which the dog-eat-dog competition of the modeling world is more literally a girl-eat-girl world.
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He has managed to look regal at a series of processions and ceremonies (unlike in July, when paparazzi spotted him at a German airport sporting a too-small vest that revealed lurid temporary tattoos).
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The last time senators put a president on trial — Bill Clinton in 1999 — lawmakers extracted a detailed, even lurid, account of his sexual relationship with a White House intern and the coverup that followed.
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So it is not surprising that their absence from the public eye, especially in a Western country with an abundant supply of good hospitals, tends to spark lurid rumours of illness and even death.
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In July a German tabloid published startling photos of the prince about to board a plane there, wearing a too-small vest which exposed his back, which sported what looked like lurid temporary tattoos.
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On your first look, you might not even recognize this as an OLED display: it exhibits none of the telltale signs like lurid over-saturation or color-shifting (at anything but extreme viewing angles).
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Over months of lurid televised court testimony — now being dramatized in a series that started this week on FX — Mr. Simpson became a symbol, to many blacks, of endemic racism in the justice system.
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To get over them, we must first acknowledge what is real: In the past five years, we have seen the undercurrents of African-Americans' decades-old fear of cops come revealed in lurid color.
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He winds through the primitively dark streets of New York City, 1973, trembling in the rain-speckled windows, the lurid lights of downtown nightclubs and the seedy arcades of Times Square blinking and blurry.
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A decision to dismiss would put an end to a bitter, monthslong legal battle that has included thousands of pages of documents and exposed lurid details that industry observers say have tarnished both sides.
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This can result in confusion, as on a recent visit when a waitress described the barbecue spare ribs as Latin American; they arrived with the lurid crimson stain and sugary pique of char siu.
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Often as we read it seems that all the energy and creativity of the writer has been channeled into conjuring up those piquant, lurid or simply shocking details that will unleash the reader's emotions.
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You and I paid for this fund with our not-so voluntary taxes, but none of the pervs, creeps or predators have been named, nor have the details of their lurid actions been revealed.
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But it still painted a lurid picture of a United States president pressuring the FBI director to declare his loyalty, and to prove it by dropping the FBI's investigation into the president's former aide.
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It's been a very weird, and very long journey even going back to 2009, when we all learned about his lurid sexcapades, and fans had been dying to see the Old Tiger come back.
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And in novels like "Dreams to Shatter" (pottery) or "A Measure of Love" (department-store modeling) the careers are mere backdrops to lurid and implausible romances, skeletons in closets and Nancy Drew-style investigations.
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As the nation at large deals with lurid stories of sexual harassment, Congress is only beginning to grapple with tales of sexual aggression that have long been fixtures of work life on Capitol Hill.
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Neil Cross, who created the show and still writes it, has a gift for packaging the lurid and the preposterous into hypnotizing psychodrama that moves fast enough to keep you from thinking too hard.
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"I tried to realize with the elf this meta-gender, gender-fluid erotic creature that witnesses this lurid tragedy with a detached voyeurism and is kind of transformed by it," Mr. Hertzberg, 28, said.
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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.
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But this Batman cartoon villain with an uncanny gift for cliffhangers and lurid story lines is buoying journalism, giving us a reprieve while we figure out how to save ourselves in the digital age.
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Thus it should not surprise that the new documentary Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez, which seeks to explain why this wildly successful athlete would kill a man in cold blood, is lurid.
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As it inevitably must, the film eventually works its way back to the confirmation hearings, during which sometimes-lurid allegations of sexual harassment were made by attorney Anita Hill, who once worked with Thomas.
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For his critics, the dossier has also proved a frustration: As its more lurid claims proved false or unprovable, they have tended to tar criticisms of the president that were based on solid facts.
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Ivanka Trump met with Christopher Steele, the former spy behind a now-famous 2016 dossier containing lurid allegations against President Donald Trump, at an exclusive London nightclub in 2007, The Times of London reported.
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Packed with skimpily-clothed women and on-the-nose musical choices, this lurid melodrama adds to Wednesday's burdens with a junkie mother (an occasionally touching Aunjanue Ellis) and a murderous rival, Kenny (Edi Gathegi).
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"The lurid mass movements of the 20th century—communist, fascist, and other—have bequeathed to our imaginations an outdated image of what 21st-century authoritarianism might look like," wrote David Frum recently for the Atlantic.
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His focus was different as well: while Obama talked primarily about those involved in the operation, Trump spoke much more about Baghdadi himself: about his crimes, his notoriety, and — in lurid detail — his final moments.
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News of lurid behavior in the national USA Gymnastics team community surfaced in February, after more than 40 plaintiffs, ages 9 to 18, stepped forward and accused a team doctor Larry Nassar of sexual abuse.
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Where soft millennial pinks and playful electric blues once were, this season brings replacements of a more lurid palette, and brands are encouraging us to reach for pieces that should, in theory, turn us off.
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" But don't discount the movie, Yang wrote: It could "end up being a surprise hit, fueled in part by the lurid fascination that the trailer has incited among viewers who might have otherwise ignored it.
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It could well be that the movie "Cats" will end up being a surprise hit, fueled in part by the lurid fascination that the trailer has incited among viewers who might have otherwise ignored it.
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But as the 1990s ramped up, his view of what the internet would do to us darkened, and he spent his fortune on a series of lurid social experiments aiming to demonstrate what he saw.
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With this latest effort, Refn paints a lurid, confused portrait of girlhood and the fashion industry that is flashy, loud, and gory but unfortunately fails at all turns to touch on anything close to truth.
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Further, while Kavanaugh might have wanted to keep salacious parts of the Starr report private, he himself fully participated in the independent counsel's push to uncover the most lurid details of Bill Clinton's sexual activities.
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Polls showed movement away from the GOP voters after the release of the Starr report, which laid out the case for impeachment in precise and lurid detail only two months before the 1998 midterm elections.
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But, as a counsellor, he clearly is powerful enough to whisper in his father-in-law's ear and diminish the prospects of rival counsellors, including those of the Administration's most lurid white nationalist, Steve Bannon.
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Last Friday, Representative Blake Farenthold, another Republican, was unmasked as the lawmaker who used $84,843 in taxpayer funds to secretly settle a lurid sexual harassment case, but Mr. Ryan has been silent on his future.
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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.
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The produce the semi-lurid sets of headlines ("Easy Trick 'Removes' Your Eyebags and Wrinkles", "A Cheater Will Always Cheat – Enter Your Spouse's Name") that that once only lured us at the grocery checkout lanes.
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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.
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Lurid details are beginning to emerge in the case of Ed Buck, a Democratic donor and activist who was arrested after a man suffered an overdose of methamphetamine in his West Hollywood home last week.
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Lurid and titillating, the film is full of perverse details of heinous crimes and marked by a seductively ambiguous bond that forms between the young agent-to-be, Clarice Starling, and the brilliant monster Lecter.
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What became an expansive investigation into decades of child rape began last year when a man moving into a Pennsylvania mobile home found lurid descriptions of sexual abuse scrawled on a piece of forgotten plywood.
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Memoirs of jungle adventures too often devolve into lurid catalogs of hardships, as their authors take undue glee in detailing every bug bite, malarial fever and bad cup of instant coffee they've had to endure.
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The topics taken up by the papers weren't all too different from the papers of the day, but they were more lurid, more naked, and with a different perspective on what was crime or gossip.
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Her case is striking not only for the lurid nature of her murder but for the fact that at trial, defendants tried to invoke a trans panic defense, a rare but indisputably toxic legal strategy.
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Fond of juxtaposing the concrete with the airy, he assembles a sonic kaleidoscope of varied keyboards: whooshing gusts, plonking shudders, blips and dings and clicks, lushly watery oscillations — echoing, lurid, glowing, pinging with assured solidity.
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For Bannon, this realization came through running the conservative media outlet Breitbart News and noticing which issues resonated most with readers: The site spotlighted tales of lurid crimes committed by unauthorized immigrants, Muslims, and African Americans.
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At one point, Buck suggested the boat trip would have been unthinkable during Aikman's playing days, somehow forgetting the array of lurid exploits of the '90s Cowboys that you can read about in Jeff Pearlman's book.
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Domestic media outlets are routinely filled with lurid tales of financial scams and the discovery of billions of shillings in counterfeit notes in private residences and even in the safe deposit boxes of leading commercial banks.
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In 1998, Starr published his official report on former President Bill Clinton's extramarital affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky — chockfull of lurid detail about the couple's sexual relationship, including oral sex in the Oval Office.
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While there are plenty of lurid headlines out there on Tinder Social that mention orgies and "enabling group sex," it's a stronger likelihood that you'll be listening to an offbeat tambourine playing in an empty pub.
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Nothing his brother did—not consorting with gangsters, not smoking crack, not repeatedly drinking and driving, not making countless lurid racist and sexist comments—shook the loyalty of the Ford base, roughly one third of Toronto.
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Whatever the case, this approach also offers possible advantages, with the lurid horror elements making their own indelible impression, and also contrasting with the mundane horror humans can inflict on one another without any supernatural help.
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Under the Constitution's Speech and Debate clause, they have a complete legal shield to go to the House floor and disclose, in lurid detail, exactly how Putin and his minions tried to subvert our democratic process.
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At a games division annual party three years ago, there was another lurid game where colleagues had to kiss each other through a piece of tissue; a female colleague refused, but was pressured into doing it.
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All of this is coming from a band that rose to prominence in their native UK on the back of a sharp, specific sound, one captured in singles like "Chocolate" and "Sex": lurid, histrionic guitar-pop.
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But the first day's harsh testimony and the lurid details in pretrial filings had already subjected the Redstone family to acute embarrassment, and raised substantial questions about Mr. Redstone's continued role in his publicly held companies.
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White supremacists justified lynching in the Jim Crow era by depicting black men as predators targeting white women, for example, and British propaganda during World War I featured lurid tales of German soldiers raping Belgian women.
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In making her lurid claims, she ignores contrary information provided by members of Mr. Versace's family, who lived and worked closely with him and were in the best position to know the facts of his life.
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The most colorful parts described in lurid detail the supposed horrors of illegal immigration and late-term abortion, both highly charged issues Trump's diminishing base and the rest of America do not tend to agree about.
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Qatar has struck back since the disappearance of Mr. Khashoggi, giving free rein to its media, such as the satellite channel Al Jazeera, to broadcast the most lurid details of the case across the Arab world.
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The "Steele dossier," a document put together by former British spy Christopher Steele that contains some of the most lurid allegations about Trump's links to Russia, claims that the Russians have dumped money into Trump's businesses.
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After starting out as a printer's assistant, he lucked into an emergency assignment covering a lurid local murder, and he did such a bang-up job that his story was republished in papers across the country.
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Twenty-nine men and women, including Chow, were named in the initial charging documents—a lurid 137-page affidavit that included the now-convicted former State Senator Leland Yee's apparent aspirations as an international arms trafficker.
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And though one can hardly call Seuss' work equivalently lurid, it is vulgar in the best, positive sense: bracingly direct and unafraid of silliness, obviously easy to enjoy and always unabashedly fun in the first instance.
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" 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.
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At the same time, we debate whether the show treats its colorful subjects ethically, and whether anything was lost as the focus shifted from a "Blackfish"-style exposé of large cat owners into something more lurid.
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The uniquely American cocktail of racism, misogyny, and lies at the center of The Hateful Eight now plays like a lurid coming attraction for the presidential election that happened less than a year after its release.
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Militarized borders, deportation squads, an archipelago of internment facilities, hypertrophied executive power, a lurid body of national security and anti-trafficking law sprung from the rich manure of panic — none of this is Mr. Trump's handiwork.
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An artist manager and former SVP Creative at Jive Records named Jimmy Maynes revealed that company executives pressured him to fly to Chicago to buy up as many copies of the lurid tape as he could.
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A former official in a previous Republican administration told The Hill that the Trump White House was not in a unique situation with Jackson, despite the lurid allegations that are now threatening to sink his nomination.
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Since 2005, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., once a well-respected environmental activist, has become better known as a vaccine "skeptic," making a series of increasingly lurid and unfounded claims about the supposed health risks of vaccines.
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More than two million of them were reportedly sold after the 20073 debut of a lurid advertisement—in which women demonstrated how to use the device (again, by giving it a vigorous handjob)—that went viral.
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More than two million of them were reportedly sold after the 2010 debut of a lurid advertisement—in which women demonstrated how to use the device (again, by giving it a vigorous handjob)—that went viral.
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The docudrama I, Tonya revisited the case of Tonya Harding from Harding's angle, while Casting JonBenet explored how the lurid murder case and ensuing media circus encapsulated anxieties about an increasingly sexualized culture in the 1990s.
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More than two million of them were reportedly sold after the 22 debut of a lurid advertisement—in which women demonstrated how to use the device (again, by giving it a vigorous handjob)—that went viral.
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Lady Lucan, who was 28, appeared to have died of natural causes, a rather quotidian finale to a lurid mystery that had mesmerized Britons for decades: Is Lord Lucan, who would be 21975, dead or alive?
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She fretted that the cardigan—a gray—might seem a little nunly, but if nunly, she reasoned, perhaps an intriguing counterpoint to the somewhat lurid cover of the Bolaño novel, which showed a Mexican death's head.
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READ: A "body double" left the Saudi consulate wearing Khashoggi's clothes With these lurid new details, Qahtani may end up being the fall guy in all of this, but his previous statements may haunt the kingdom.
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In the present of the novels, Anne will never be so alone and without resources that she would have to sleep in a cherry tree, because Montgomery would never allow her world to become so lurid.
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The multitude of films and shows that focus on that narrow band of experience can feel lurid, like the interest of cis audiences hitches solely on the fascination of watching "boy" become "girl" or vice versa.
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Lifetime's And Then There Were None, a TV adaptation of the famous Agatha Christie novel airing in two parts on March 13 and 14, is enormous fun: a lush, lurid, gothic fantasy of a murder mystery.
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Mike fills them in on all the recent murders in lurid detail, and they have to decide whether they're going to "stay and fight" It again or leave quickly before It picks them off one by one.
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His romantic relationship with boyfriend John Reid — who also acted as his manager — disintegrated, and ultimately even his mother moved to Spain in an effort to separate herself from the increasingly lurid tabloid headlines about her boy.
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According to the former FBI director, the president on multiple occasions brought up a lurid accusation from a controversial dossier about him — that Trump had witnessed prostitutes urinating on a bed in a Moscow hotel in 2013.
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" Holland's filing said that "as a result of this lawsuit" against her and Herzer, "the lurid nature of these relationships and the significant amounts of money that Redstone paid to these [other] women are directly at issue.
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Intelligence agencies have also begun to confirm the credibility, CNN and BuzzFeed News reported Friday, of some elements of a dossier assembled by a former top British spy — though not the most lurid allegations of Russian blackmail.
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No functioning adult could be as bored as they are, and so no functioning adult would do what they do; we have no choice but to take their lurid teenliness as a sort of wild art performance.
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If you were haunted by the nightmarish spiral of Requiem for a Dream, or unnerved by the lurid fever dream of Black Swan, you know director Darren Aronofsky can be damn creepy when he wants to be.
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While other French clubs frequently change colors — with Racing's Paris rival, Stade Français, setting its own standards for the eye-catchingly lurid — Racing has never changed the colors it adopted in imitation of Cambridge University in 1882.
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And Alex, still lurid pink from not wearing sunscreen for six straight weeks (my guy, you are a doctor, know the risks), glowing nuclear beneath the studio lights, tilts his little head and acknowledges the applause. #8.
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It was lurid and creepy then in a way that only an accumulation of massive neon clowns can be when they're glaring at you, two stories high, to a soundtrack of chiming slot machines and carnival calliope.
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In a 1999 article, The New York Times noted the noticeable decline of TV tabloid programs, for the precise reason that Swenson observed: Lurid, sensational stories once considered fit only for tabloids had migrated to traditional news.
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" In her new book, Daniels also describes in lurid detail an alleged sexual encounter with Trump, saying, in part, "It may have been the least impressive sex I'd ever had, but clearly, he didn't share that opinion.
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Once a viewer accepted that a homicidal hottie was not outside of the realm of possibility, however, the folks at home were richly rewarded with lurid fun that could also terrify without a protective shell of irony.
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In Comey's memos, Trump continually returned to the most lurid of all the allegations in the now-infamous Steele dossier: that he had paid prostitutes to urinate on a mattress in a Moscow hotel room in 2013.
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Into this space, vloggers like DJ Akademiks made their careers, serving a large audience for these stars with little regard for media industry norms—and a larger appetite for the more lurid aspects of Chicago street culture.
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This may come as something of a surprise to Americans who remember independent counsel Ken Starr's lurid report on President Bill Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky, which Congress used as the basis for Clinton's impeachment in 1998.
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The early morning attack escalated the war between the Republican presidential nominee and those party establishment figures who have abandoned him since the emergence of a 2005 video that showed Mr. Trump demeaning women in lurid terms.
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Like many other right-wing nationalists, Orban has concocted lurid anti-Semitic fantasies featuring Soros as the head of the globalist conspiracy bent on promoting mass migration as a way of undermining the sovereignty of traditional nations.
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The film series, called "Tim Burton and the Lurid Beauty of Monsters," included a wide-ranging list, from the works of B-movie scion Roger Corman to horror films by James Whale, Tobe Hooper, and many others.
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But international outrage mounted as Turkish officials leaked lurid details from their own investigation suggesting that he was murdered inside the consulate and dismembered by a team of Saudi agents who flew in specifically to kill him.
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Hill's aloof, dispassionate description of Thomas's harassment, and her preternaturally cool reaction to all the lurid slanders hurled at her, left the senators skeptical that she was telling the truth; shouldn't a wronged woman show more emotion?
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Filled with unasked questions and unverified assertions, "Voyeur" is a sad, strange tale of two men whose similarities of taste and temperament — including extreme ego, unbridled nosiness and a penchant for the lurid — are its real subject.
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The scene makes for a gruesome tableau, especially because of its intimacy (death often comes in close-up here), and because of the blood that splatters across Dominika, an augury of the lurid, messy violence to come.
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No wonder, then, that to the teenagers pouring through the stone corridors in Chase Twichell's poem, the medieval architecture of the Met Cloisters seems like a walk-through peep show, each ornamentation more lurid than the next.
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A playwright with a deep devotion to gore, he churned out some of the 17th-century's most lurid tragedies and there was nothing — books, a helmet, a tennis racket, a fart — that he didn't long to empoison.
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So, as we reported earlier this week, the coronavirus crisis has shone a lurid spotlight on 'sharing economy' business models that offer little or no safety net for platform workers who fall ill or otherwise cannot work.
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When Giuffre sued over the legality of that plea deal and again brought up claims against Prince Andrew, a federal judge struck it from the court record and argued the "lurid details" were unnecessary to the lawsuit.
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"The change in guidelines was announced in a Facebook post by Carnival brand ambassador John Heald who explained that a passenger had complained about a fellow traveler "threatening to wear disgusting and lurid shirts on her cruise.
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The libretto of Bach's St. John, by an unidentified author, is based in part on a text devised by the Hamburg poet Barthold Heinrich Brockes—a lurid treatment that was set by Handel and Telemann, among others.
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Democrat Ralph Northam and Republican Ed Gillespie have dropped all pretense of civility and are trading increasingly lurid attacks, looking for any advantage in the closely watched contest with nine days until voters head to the polls.
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Directed by Fleur & Manu (Drake, A$AP Rocky, M220), and shot on location in the everglades of the US south, the video features a strong reggae beat and what looks like an even stronger lurid colored drink.
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In her new book, Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South, out October 9 from the University of North Carolina Press, historian Karen L. Cox recounts this strange tale in lurid detail.
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Before landing his role in "Mannix," the actor appeared under the stage name of Touch Connors in some outrageous B movies, such as legendary Hollywood schlockmeister Roger Corman's "Swamp Women" (1956) and the similarly lurid "Voodoo Woman" (1957).
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But because they lack the lurid storyline of a twisted sicko with compelling quirks and graphic rituals, this in many ways more horrific and commonplace form of mass brutality flies under the radar for most of the public.
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Allegations that Trump was somehow compromised by Russia were first broached by the controversial Steele dossier, a raw intelligence document assembled by a former British spy that was interspersed with lurid and largely uncorroborated accusations against the president.
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One week later — and after In Touch released the transcript of a 2011 interview in which Daniels described her relations with Trump in lurid detail — the porn star launched a "Make America Horny Again" tour of strip clubs.
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His lurid tragicomedies — like his futurist shocker "Mercury Fur," staged by the New Group last year — typically begin in shadow and progress steadily into a starless midnight, where any available light is often reflected in pools of blood.
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The survey's newest work pulls back further: "Landscape Painting" (2019) depicts the interior of a room where a small framed pastoral scene hangs behind a busty woman, her nakedness amplified by her dangling necklace and lurid tan lines.
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In Nunberg's affidavit obtained by CNN, Nunberg says he did not provide the New York Post with any information concerning "that embarrassing and lurid event" between Trump's then-campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, and its current spokeswoman, Hope Hicks.
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To begin with, everyone concerned is a conservative Republican—further evidence, perhaps, of the risks of single-party rule, a danger amply documented in Alabama's lurid political history (the lack of impeachments is not for want of cause).
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Mr. Trump also pointed to the various means at his disposal to try to lure delegates, with rides on his plane and trips to his high-end clubs, but he insisted he thinks that is a lurid game.
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Holzer invokes in these works the lurid madness of biblical prophets from Isaiah to John the Evangelist, pouring out her own incantations, not via divine inspiration, but through a ruthless criticism of everything existing (to invoke Karl Marx).
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In recent months, as lurid stories of human trafficking have become public, M.L.B. has considered issuing a moratorium on signing Cuban defectors, but it is concerned that that would cut off an outlet for Cubans seeking professional careers.
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While much of Toronto cringed at the often lurid revelations about Mr. Ford's private life, his supporters rallied to him, appearing in greater numbers than ever at the free barbecues the two brothers had long organized for them.
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Projects are kept firmly under lock and key from virtually all outsiders – as well as many within the walls itself (which, like those owned by Roald Dahl's flamboyant fictional chocolate factory owner, are often painted a lurid purple).
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An untitled painting on a photocopy of a man with a red face in a chartreuse suit recalls the lurid colors and faux-naivete of these artists' paintings, as does Meese's send-up of decorum and good taste.
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"The abuses described in the report are criminal and morally reprehensible," the Vatican statement said of the report, which was released on Tuesday, shocking Catholics with lurid tales of abusive priests and superiors who turned a blind eye.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Days before Kathy Griffin's infamous photo shoot, audiences at the first preview of the Public Theater's Trumped-up production of Julius Caesar witnessed an even more lurid attack on the presidential body.
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The lurid accusations of child molestation that had dogged him for years fell to the background as fans around the world celebrated the entertainer who had gone from pop prodigy to global superstar over a four-decade career.
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Al Jazeera gives free rein to Saudi dissidents, while Sheikha Mozah is the object of lurid, often misogynistic insults in the Saudi, Emirati and Egyptian media, where she is portrayed as a power-hungry manipulator of weak men.
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Lurid cases have come to light over the years of children locked in closets and basements, held captive by parents who have crumbled under the weight of drugs, extreme religious conviction, personality disorders or their own abusive backgrounds.
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We got the "Today" host Tuesday in NYC, and asked if she thought there was any way for Kelly to redeem himself after the lurid allegations involving the 2 new sex tapes Michael Avenatti turned over to prosecutors.
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Mr. Trump — with his fragile ego and his particularly obsessive concern with his reputation for manliness — may have brought these dynamics to the surface, but they have been there all along, if in less crude and lurid ways.
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One can understand why: it is the largest, and the lurid greens, yellows, reds, and blues that accent Albright's usual grays and browns make it stand out, as does the ornate wooden frame the artist made for it.
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The post spun a tale about a prankster who had gotten Mr. Avenatti to pay $75,000 by offering him made-up claims of sexual assault, complete with lurid details meant to convince him that the allegations were real.
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The L.A.-based Owens transforms elements that could be too swiftly called ''zany'' or ''lurid'' — rainbow sprinkles as a psychedelic garland on wallpaper; stoned, Crayola-like squiggles; swirls of oil paint thick as cake frosting — into something ravishing.
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The lawmakers leveled a litany of lurid and largely unsubstantiated charges against the F.B.I. and the Justice Department, arguing that officials had wrongly exonerated Hillary Clinton and then cooked up an investigation of Mr. Trump for political reasons.
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Fortunately, districts in scores of states — including Dallas, a segregated city with a lurid history of fighting desegregation — have recognized the dangers of racial and socioeconomic isolation and are taking steps to bring together children of different backgrounds.
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The lurid court testimony riveted Canada: A Chinese immigrant shot dead his brash, womanizing, millionaire relative at his $8 million hillside mansion in Vancouver, and then chopped up the body into 108 pieces before taking a long nap.
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Pulsing LED installations, streaming with texts by the poet Anna Swir about her experiences as a resistance fighter in the 1939 Siege of Warsaw, cast a lurid purplish-blue glow on the paintings, lit just so they're legible.
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Lorraine gets plenty of opportunities to mix it up in Berlin, where the story soon turns into spy versus spy with washes of lurid color, topsy-turvy camerawork, loads of crashing cars and wall-to-wall pounding tunes.
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The clash also took place against a backdrop of a Trump campaign in dire straits, as the reverberations from a 2005 video in which the nominee spoke in lurid and aggressive terms about women continue to be felt.
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All the above and the lurid drama about to unfold are recounted by Sorel in much livelier fashion than my own little sketch-in of events, and his drawings beef up the flavor of the environment he depicts.
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From the ebullient rollerdisco surge of "Run Away With Me" to the lurid wobble of "Warm Blood," Emotion soars speedily, with an almost embarrassing confidence, through a set of breathlessly sequenced, brightly melodic syntheses of yearning and excitement.
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Implausible schemes to put Mike Pence, rather than Donald Trump, on the top of the ballot have been flying since a once-secret recording of Trump's lurid boasting about sexual assault leaked to the public on Friday evening.
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The target audience for these books was usually young, white men, and the lurid covers that featured male heroes and helpless or femme fatale women can be seen as a precedent to the character patterns of American comic books.
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And although Munson is definitely overlooked in art history as a muse to some of the great works of Beaux Arts, the more lurid details of her life have popped up in sensational, weird history articles in recent years.
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In the felicitously timed "Uri", a lurid recreation of an actual Indian retaliatory raid in 2016 that is believed to have left some three dozen Pakistan-based guerrillas dead, he is portrayed as a wise, stern commander-in-chief.
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I won't go into the particulars of their comeuppance, which has been told in lurid detail elsewhere, but ultimately it turned out that the company took too many shortcuts in a highly regulated industry, displeasing regulators and disappointing customers.
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It's the first feature from Polish director Agnieszka Smoczyńska, and the fact that it exists at all is inspiring — the fact that it's gorgeous, rendered in lurid neon and dingy Miami Vice pastels, makes it go down even easier.
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The lurid image of the Junkie Whore — made up of media representations, misogyny, the blemish of criminalization, the defensive derision of other sex workers, and the exclusion of the straight world — looms over drug-using sex workers, obscuring us.
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Hersey is at his best in extremity, as in his war writing and in Hiroshima, where his restrained, sober voice is able to describe violence and horror that in the hands of a more lively writer might seem lurid.
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She left New York after being falsely accused of molesting the son of a landlord in 1948; the trial attracted more attention than her acquittal, and those lurid headlines were among the last that she made in her lifetime.
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"I'm rather sick of snobs who tell us they're bad papers, snobs who only read papers that no-one else wants," he said when confronted about his tendency to publish lurid news in his papers, according to the BBC.
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Bloomingdale, who was accustomed to seeing her name only in society columns, was drawn into a lurid tabloid scandal when his longtime mistress, Vicki Morgan, sued the Bloomingdale estate and his widow for $10 million for breach of promise.
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In one episode, Nathan's attempt to increase sales at an antique shop—by encouraging drunks to pay for broken ceramics—involves a sumo-wrestling costume and a sexual confession lurid enough that the proceedings nearly grind to a halt.
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It's long been known that research that went into the "Steele dossier" — an infamous document filled with lurid allegations about Donald Trump's links to Russia that eventually drew FBI interest — was funded by Trump's political enemies, including some Democrats.
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She then went to rehab for her eating disorder and cutting and cocaine addictions — and it all made for the sort of lurid headlines that the worst part of our human nature gobbles up on Twitter and tabloid sites.
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While there is still some residual nostalgia, the popular appeal of wrestling on this side of the pond took a steep plunge in the mid noughties, with the garish, lurid entertainment on offer increasingly unfashionable and devoid of charm.
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Juxtaposing the match against another Ken Shamrock vs Royce Gracie brilliantly heightened this anxiety, forcing us to reconcile the mix of genuine martial arts appreciation and lurid voyeurism in which UFC 1, where the pair first met, was forged.
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For months, the singer R. Kelly has faced federal charges that he sexually exploited underage girls and young women, but on Friday prosecutors added a lurid wrinkle: They accused him of knowingly exposing two people to a venereal disease.
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What's shocking is not just the lurid details and human devastation of his alleged crimes, but the way he was able to use his money to escape serious consequences, thanks in part to Acosta, then Miami's top federal prosecutor.
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"Kyl's report begins with a lurid fiction perpetuated within right-wing circles, that conservatives experience algorithmic bias on Facebook, without citing a single example or any evidence," said Henry Fernandez, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.
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Started in 2420 by Tom Forcade, an underground journalist, drug smuggler and Yippie, the magazine was originally conceived as a parody of Playboy, but with lurid centerfolds of cannabis buds the size of bonsai trees instead of nude women.
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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (CNN)With every claim from Turkey detailing more lurid details in the alleged murder of Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Arabia's media bends further forward -- risking a face plant in its efforts to kowtow to a different reality.
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But, despite its lurid details about what position he liked, whether they used protection, and how well-endowed he is — "I can definitely describe his junk perfectly, if I ever have to" — the story never got much pick-up.
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The shades of lurid red that saturate the sets and costumes for this production, which opened on Tuesday night with Gillian Anderson as its enervated star, suggest nothing so much as the fast-drying lifeblood of an exsanguinated masterpiece.
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It's hard to answer this question without spoiling Better Watch Out's crucial twist, but it's mostly a black comedy with a few jump-scares and one or two moments of lurid gore that a pre-teen boy might find funny.
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The idea that a video showing Trump in a compromising position involving two urinating Russian sex workers seems as outlandish as anything Trump has thrown out to the masses and is one of the most lurid theories in presidential history.
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Two canvases in lurid yellow sit side by side, crowned by a constellation of ceramic discs, while specially commissioned wooden chairs in exquisite pastels — available to buy from the gallery in editions — invite you to immerse yourself fully in her aesthetic.
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The 18th-century comedies and tragedies which audiences now flock to see at the Kabuki-za theatre in Tokyo represent a brilliantly choreographed and intensely physical art, whose lurid tales of love and death resonate powerfully for a 21st-century audience.
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In Christophe Honoré's lurid 2004 Ma Mère, she's a libertine whose sexual adventures have her circling closer and closer to her own son, bringing them to a sex-and-death climax that could make even the hardiest of moviegoers wince.
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Then, everything changes when Paul's terrible friend Marcello (Luca Tanganelli) invites Berto to a party thrown by Roman Polanski, who was better known at the time for directing hits like Rosemary's Baby than a lurid history of pedophilia and sexual assault.
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The lawsuit, filed in a court in Manhattan, argues that some lurid and inaccurate allegations about the first lady, which were reported by the Daily Mail last August and later retracted, had cost her $150m in lost money-making opportunities.
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Mr Trump's wife, Melania, has sued a newspaper for reporting lurid untruths about her on the basis that this cost her the "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" of making millions as "one of the most photographed women in the world".
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Rather, Sunday's story was about a return to grace after a fall documented everywhere from the lurid tabloid headlines chronicling his marital infidelity and divorce to the medical journals outlining the odyssey of his multiple injuries and ongoing back pain.
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Was the jury pool hopelessly tainted from the very beginning by more than two months of sensational and sexist news coverage that included pictures of Pamela posing in a bikini, and focused on lurid details of her affair with Flynn?
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As the flow of coffins into their village quickens and the supposedly heroic nature of the deaths becomes increasingly doubtful, the goats become (deceptively adorable) weapons in a propaganda war, part of a campaign of lurid distraction from daily atrocity.
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These violent histories are presented as dreamy, amnesiac memories, lurid visuals that imagine the encounter between Europeans and Africans in the 16th century without revealing the details in full (like a dream, we are left to interpret the half-told stories).
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A few hours later, after it was revealed she had come down with pneumonia -- a common illness now being treated with antibiotics and a few days' rest -- they got back to work, retrofitting baseless and lurid suggestions about her health.
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In 2008, lurid reports emerged about the "SNEEP" sex trafficking case, which involved a small group of Turkish men who had been forcing women into prostitution, battering, and raping them, as well as making them have breast enlargement surgery and abortions.
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In person, though, it's hard to associate any of this lurid wink-wink stuff with Hiddleston, who comes across as smart, careful, and deeply thoughtful about the work he had to put into making his version of Hank Williams convincing.
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Whether Mr Goldsmith's dog-whistling would have failed elsewhere in the country is debatable; provocative dividing lines akin to (albeit less lurid than) those he attempted to draw in London worked well for the Conservatives in last year's general election.
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Op-Ed Contributor ANOTHER lurid case of insider trading has been uncovered: The former chairman of Dean Foods has admitted giving insider information to a well-known professional sports bettor in Las Vegas because he was mired in gambling debts.
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But Ryan Lochte, a 12-time medal winner, left the hospitality house and walked across the street to Ipanema Beach, where he gave a lurid interview to NBC, describing a gun-to-head holdup by men identifying themselves as police officers.
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But while Mr. Trump earned headlines at that stage mainly for his romantic escapades and business failures — a lurid divorce from his first wife, Ivana, and a series of corporate bankruptcies — even then he gave hints of loftier political goals.
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Since Tuesday, when the water in the diving pool abruptly changed from a pellucid azure to a lurid green, officials have provided an array of different diagnoses, from too many people in the water to not enough wind in the air.
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Unlike Chang's famously lurid story of spies and seductresses, "Lust, Caution" — the basis for the Ang Lee movie — this novel is set among ordinary residents of the city whose lives are hemmed in by rigid social constraints and Confucian reserve.
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Television and pro wrestling arguably helped create one another; the latter needed exposure to go from carnivals and bingo halls to stadiums, while the former needed cheap, abundant, and lurid (but not too much so) programming to fill the early airwaves.
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In Heiner Müller's celebrated 1995 production at the Berliner Ensemble, for instance, Martin Wuttke, as Ui, entered as a dog, bare-chested and slavering on all fours, his tongue painted a lurid red, his black hair slicked into Hitler's side part.
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When Ms. Severin began at EC, the company was known for lurid horror, science fiction and crime comics, which helped inspire a congressional inquiry in the 1950s into the supposedly corrupting influence of comic books on boys and young men.
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As a ghostly icon, preserved in old clips and memories, she appears only in prerecorded cinematic pastiches: a black-and-white drama; a horror flick drenched in lurid Dario Argento red; a vehicle for a breathy, Marilyn Monroe-like star.
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It is painted an extra lurid shade of pink and covered in dozens of photographs of little girls with Monika Maddux's face pasted into all of them, a testament to the fact that grief and pain make people remarkably self-centered.
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The series of attacks in Brussels on the March 22—two bombs at an airport, one in a train station, 32 victims dead, scores injured, that lurid and panicked nightmare we've all been dreading—are also notable for what didn't happen.
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There was a menagerie of genetically modified leopard prints, including a group of beaded leopard pantsuits in lurid shades of lipstick red and lime (the mythic cats presumably roam the streets of Los Angeles late at night, stalking their prey).
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But as the race formally got underway on Monday, no fewer than 10 candidates secured enough support from Conservative lawmakers to enter the contest, a battle already marked by fierce infighting and lurid headlines over the candidates' past drug use.
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Two years later, Woods won the United States Open victory on a left leg in need of surgery, but a year after that, a marital dispute about his philandering led to a car accident and a succession of lurid headlines.
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Shadowed, as all Icelandic series are, by the fallout from the 2008 financial crisis, "Cover Story" is distinguishable from the Swedish series by its cynicism and a lurid spark that reflects the spirit of the tabloids where its characters toil.
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Tabloids and late-night TV hosts seized on the lurid details, which included telling her to buy a vibrator, calling her while apparently masturbating and engaging in one-sided phone sex entailing loofas — some of which Ms. Mackris said she recorded.
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Whit has recently reunited with his former brain-damaged, sexually uninhibited girlfriend, and Stella has found lurid images on his phone involving spatulas, dildos and "unforeseen uses for socks" — one of many instances where this highbrow novel dips hilariously low.
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" The commission's report marks the end of a bitter chapter for Greitens, who stepped down in 2018 facing legal jeopardy and threat of impeachment, stemming from lurid revelations of his 2015 affair with a woman known in court documents as "K.
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Weiner's behavior in all its lurid detail — including his online alias "Carlos Danger" and a selfie of his bulging underwear — turned him and his last name into an irresistible punchline for late-night comics and mortified his wife again and again.
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I recognize that look from being a 12-year-old getting leered at by grown men, and I'm familiar with it from being given the cold shoulder by other women, deemed a lurid distraction to their boyfriends or their sons.
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Lurid audio recordings became public, and on Friday, a special counsel concluded that the governor had committed an array of misdeeds to try to cover up the "inappropriate relationship" that had led to Mr. Bentley and Ms. Mason leaving their congregation.
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This is part of why we are working to create media guidelines, as far too often we have seen media outlets seek to exploit an experience of horror and trauma to try and turn it into titillating clickbait and lurid headlines.
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A Twitter post on Sunday night showed Mr. Trump — in the middle of the longest federal government shutdown in American history — reveling in the lurid revelations surrounding the impending divorce of Jeff Bezos and his wife of 25 years, MacKenzie Bezos.
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But that's the way it goes with Lars Kepler, a pseudonym for the husband and wife team of Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril and Alexander Ahndoril, who have a taste for the macabre and a surefire recipe for the lurid serial-killer thriller.
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" Many prominent figures in British journalism and politics have been TERFs; British TV has made a sport of endlessly hosting their lurid rudeness and styling it as courage; British newspapers seemingly never tire of broadsides against the menace of "gender ideology.
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We learn that McVeigh read and drew from "The Turner Diaries" — a lurid fantasy of apocalyptic "race war" by the neo-Nazi author William Pierce — but we're left in the dark about his ties to larger networks of white power activists.
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We tend to hear a lot of lurid stories about what happens when you plough through four grams a day—you get coke-bloat; your septum disintegrates; your heart explodes—but that's not how most people actually use the drug.
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Which creates the unfortunate implication that the kind of sweet domestic fiction that Montgomery wrote so well is not worthy of the prestige TV treatment, and that psychological depth can only be found in worlds of exaggerated and lurid cruelty.
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In a series of lithographs inspired by the Bryce Report, Bellows portrays in lurid detail the war crimes committed by the German army as they marched through neutral Belgium in 1914: woman are raped, families are murdered, and babies are skewered on bayonets.
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Elie Honig, a former prosecutor, argued in a column on CNN that the actions alleged by Bezos amounted to extortion because the act of stopping Bezos' investigation was of value to AMI and AMI's threat of exposing lurid photos met the "wrongful" test.
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The tabloid headlines were painful for Trump's family, but he believed that all publicity was good publicity, and so he helped concoct the most lurid headline of them all -- "Best Sex I Ever Had" -- and put it in his paramour Marla Maples' mouth.
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In a 1980 essay on homosexuality in films for Forum magazine, particularly those that spoke almost exclusively to a heterosexual audience, writer John Rechy spoke of the perils of downplaying the more lurid details of gay life in the service of acceptance.
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His daring escape from prison last July, in view of the video camera in his cell, cast a lurid spotlight on the incompetence and corruption that has long dogged the Mexican state, driving many to view the government on a par with criminals.
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" He suspects, however, that witnessing a suicide on social media can be as bad or even worse for our emotional health as encountering graphic details in the media: "There’s nothing more lurid than seeing something like this in real time.
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She had returned to the paintings, she went on, to their strange, slightly lurid colors and mounded shapes, to their interiority and yet the simple childlike honesty of their forms, while she tried to process this sense of combined familiarity and dissonance.
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Groaning tanpura, plucked bass, radiant keyboard chords, and a fabulously bright, chiming, distorted electric guitar hook interlock to produce shiny musical fireworks with lurid color patterns while Lennon, sprawled out in a boat, drifts lazily down a river, describing the surreal scenery.
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Monroe grew up in the underbelly of society—she spent most of her youth in foster homes and died unaware of her father's name—and even during her mostly comedic acting career, stories of her depression and lurid affairs filled the tabloid Confidential.
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But things took a dark turn — the pharmaceutical enterprise failed, and reports emerged of McAfee steeping himself in lurid activities: fostering a harem of teenage girlfriends, associating with armed criminals, and establishing an armed force to protect himself and harass a nearby village.
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As the Leave and Remain campaigns have traded lurid claims—comparing the EU to Hitler, claiming that a vote for Brexit would embolden Islamic State—the practical implications for the hundreds of thousands of expats in other EU states have been largely ignored.
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A blockbuster investigation by The New Yorker, published online, paints a lurid, shocking portrait of New York's top law enforcement officer as an alleged serial abuser of women, someone who slapped and spat on them, heaping insults and other verbal abuse as well.
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The former British ambassador to Russia, Sir Andrew Wood, discovered the existence of a "dossier," prepared by a former MI6 British intelligence officer, said to contain lurid accounts of Trump's sexual activity caught on tape that could be used to blackmail him.
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In a thoughtful, admiring essay about the author, from 2012, the Argentine writer Alan Pauls suggests that perhaps this was inevitable: the novel is a "tragic object," he writes, its literary appreciation always overburdened with the lurid nature of its source material.
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On Sunday, Axios published an article titled "Inside Omarosa's Reign of Terror" which quoted lurid statements by Trump officials about how scary Manigault-Newman was: The notion that Trump has a particular reaction to women of color has been around for sometime.
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In a sense, it was Las Vegas's proud reputation for lurid excess, for being a place where almost anything goes, that seemed to make it the perfect backdrop for the third and final American presidential debate, which took place here on Wednesday night.
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The pictures, dyed lurid oranges, greens and violets, encompass shots of a statue of Ronald Reagan in the United States Capitol Rotunda in Washington, the reception desk at Twitter headquarters in San Francisco and the exterior of a Park Avenue high rise.
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But for over six years, she has been the victim of a broad campaign to discredit her reputation — including fake photos of her online and lurid stories about her sex life — that experts suspect is being orchestrated by the Chinese Communist Party.
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By Tuesday he'd moved in with me, the lunch date smearing into a lurid lost weekend that involved a chipped Noguchi table, swimming topless in a public pool in the middle of the day and lighting a small fire on his balcony.
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At some point we'll all have to grapple with the idea that the warped compassion of the modern true-crime boom implicates its audience and that viewers are greedily lining up to be part of a lurid long tail of suffering and despair.
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The level of craft in "Let the Corpses Tan" is certainly adequate to the task: The images are sharp, and the colors are deep and often lurid, although also periodically so intentionally dark it can be hard to make out any detail.
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The bishop of Berlin-Brandenburg, Otto Dibelius, who was otherwise critical of the Nazis, was outraged at what he considered foreign atrocity propaganda, seeing a baseless rerun of the lurid stories printed during World War I. He little suspected what he was defending.
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A barrage of lurid accounts of hard drinking and partying lobbed against the Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh this week has reminded Americans of the aggressive, hypersexualized "bro culture" that has stubbornly persisted on high school and college campuses across America.
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Editorial Bill O'Reilly's ouster from Fox News Wednesday — nine months after similarly lurid charges of sexual harassment forced the resignation of Roger Ailes, the Fox chief executive — has opened another window into sexual abuse of women at Fox and in the workplace generally.
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These stories, which were packaged as "very special episodes," were regularly treated as big cultural events—maybe because they stood in striking contrast to the way sexual violence was portrayed on crime shows and soaps, which tended to be hardboiled or lurid.
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Few papers in the run-up to the Brexit referendum weaponized the tabloid tools of rumor, innuendo and invective like The Mail, whose lurid, factually murky warnings of immigrant violence and European Union evils helped tip the Leave campaign over the finish line.
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Some new arrivals have no idea what's going on at the border, but all are primed at the academy for narco warfare, with lurid PowerPoints of people killed by Mexican cartels: heads in an ice chest, bodies stacked in a cattle truck.
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