Watson's luminescence is so redeeming that she gives Bess the capacity to overcome the luridness of sexual degradation with a radiance and conviction that makes us believe, as one character says, " That Bess suffers from being good ."
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With " The Portrait of a Lady, " she has managed to inject a fetid luridness into decaying, old-world Europe and a pallid glimmer of hope into Isabel Archer, the prototype for James'idealization of the New World.
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That premise, which turns the theater ( first Henry Miller's, then Studio 54 ) into the Kit Kat Club and, by extension, aims to make its audience feel like Berlin revelers while raising the luridness quotient to the highest levels allowed by law.
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Yet in their gimmickiness and occasional luridness, their jokiness, their quickness of pace, their way of developing a single clever idea, there's something old-fashioned about them too-- a trace of the pulp magazines, say, or of some of H . G . Wells'tales.
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That the WWE can be lurid in various ways is not irrelevant to her life and her position in it; the luridness of the organization has been a factor in her entire political career ( as the sourced comments about those who considered her for her position on the education board attest . )-- talk ) 18 : 17, 3 September 2010 ( UTC)
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The plot owes something to the ballad form and to the words of blues songs and African-American " toasts, " while the poem's tone veers between stark tabloid luridness and street-talk patter : " ` Listen to me, kid !'Kate admonished : / ` Keep away from that blond-headed vamp : / She was wise to herself / When your ears were damp ! "'
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It was kind of Paramount Home Entertainment to release one of Philip Kaufman's best films, " The White Dawn " from 1974, on the same day it is issuing his absolute worst, this year's embarrassing erotic thriller " Twisted . " Anyone who wants to chart the devolution of the American cinema need only compare the ethical seriousness and stylistic restraint of " The White Dawn "-- a story of three sailors ( Warren Oates, Timothy Bottoms, Louis Gossett Jr . ) lost in the Arctic-- with the luridness and irresponsibility of " Twisted, " which stars Ashley Judd as a San Francisco homicide inspector and part-time nymphomaniac who comes to believe that she is responsible for a series of murders.
