The media frenzy surrounding Cheung and Tse was not without precedent, thanks partly to a spate of lurid ripped-from-the-headlines potboilers that were, in the early 1990s, a staple of pre-handover Hong Kong cinema.
Source: Roger Ebert
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A Culture That Kills Its Children Has No Future by Elizabeth Bruenig (link here)
“Nihilism arrives not as society fading quietly to dust but as fruit flush with lurid color, ripening until it bursts.
Source: Forbes
His divorce from the lawyer and philanthropist Nicole Shanahan became tabloid fodder after lurid (and disputed) allegations surfaced that Shanahan had a secret tryst with Brin's fellow billionaire and one-time confidant Elon Musk.
Source: Business Insider
His music videos were lurid and memorable, set in the familiar worlds of movie dates, photobooths, street parties, basketball courts, clubs – typically adult settings that made preteendom look and feel like an unruly, insular universe of its own.
Source: The Guardian
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In early December 2022, amid an ongoing public furor over lurid ad campaigns for the fashion house Balenciaga that featured child exploitation and BDSM themes, social media users shared what appeared to be a Balenciaga ad promoting a men's jacket made of human skin.
Source: Snopes.com
Helena tasting room was outfitted in shackles and prison cell-like bars, and that the company released wines with lurid names like Derange and Eternally Silenced — all of which seemed to trivialize the harsh realities of mass incarceration in our society.
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
Physical fights have been known to break out over the goods, and everyone loves the lurid spectacle of middle-aged women behaving badly.
Source: The Cut
It hooks us with the lurid promise of a murder mystery, but its objective is something else entirely.
Source: Indie Film Hustle
Despite the lurid title cribbed from the Pearl White serials The Perils of Pauline (as well as the 1947 feature adaptation), the sexual perils that Paulette faces here are relatively mild ones.
Source: The Digital Bits
Though he tried to play the good guy most of the time, Justin also tried to slut-shame Britney by sharing lurid details about their sex life together.
Source: HollywoodLife
“Missing Pieces Justice” features a double-sided puzzle with the Constitution on one side and names of Black victims of police violence on the other side — a hidden but lurid red underbelly.
Source: The Boston Globe
Death-by-kamikaze drone will surpass mass shootings as the best way to enact a lurid revenge.
Source: Daily Nous
Whether lurid books about fiendish murderers and ruthless mercenaries are more fun to read during the daytime or right before bed — well, that’s up to you.
Source: The New York Times
Death by kamikaze drone will surpass mass shootings as the best way to enact a lurid revenge.
Source: The New York Times
"It is welcome that the BBC accepts Lord Dyson’s findings in full — which are extremely concerning — that BBC employees: lied and used fake documents to obtain the interview with my mother; made lurid and false claims about the royal family which played on her fears and fueled paranoia; displayed woeful incompetence when investigating complaints and concerns about the program; and were evasive in their reporting to the media and covered up what they knew from their internal investigation,” he said.
Source: Us Weekly
And in that lurid myth, in those shocking images, that’s where the field of experimentation for future literature lives.
Source: CrimeReads
Later paintings of the Flight into Egypt or the Pietà appear almost amateurish, with unconvincing drapery and lurid color.
Source: The New York Times
Also fun is the lurid lighting design, which looks as if the whole set was illuminated only by various hues of fairy lights.
Source: The Guardian
Freeze changing the weather? Where is the structural damage after Clayface’s escape?
What makes this worse is that Gotham Knights mishandles a group of villains who, throughout their runs in the comics, are compelling, insidious embodiments of the city’s lurid history: the Court of Owls.
Source: Polygon
“SHOCK” also makes lurid use of Fincher’s preferred cold color palette, while a Steadicam rig allows Fincher to chase Martha around the house like a gliding, ominous force.
Source: Indie Film Hustle
‘Semi-Charmed Life’ is their biggest, most enduring hit, a song whose ear-worm bubblegum licks sugarcoat the fact that it’s a lurid tale of druggy malaise.
Source: Time Out
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Granted, this was three decades ago, and before we’d seen it play out multiple times on film, but Batman’s origin story was still quite ubiquitous.
Source: The Indian Express
Having fun; Zoe Kravitz and BFF Chris Pine looked in great spirits as they enjoyed their annual pre-Thanksgiving sushi date on SundayChris had dressed up for the evening, clad in a 90s-inspired tan woolen suit, paired with a crisp white shirt and lurid green, black and yellow tie.
Source: GameRant
Having instructed the hapless Homer to design the car for the “average American”, a star-studded launch reveals an $82,000 monstrosity in lurid lime green, with bubble domes, tail fins and three horns that play ‘La Cucaracha’.
Source: The Spinoff
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