Nicole Kidman Pees on Zac Efron, Divides Cannes Audiences - Miami New Times Blogs
25 May 2012, 1:34 pm
Which is understandable, since urophilia isn't for everyone: The line on this movie in Cannes is the same one that a lot of critics, including me, took on Daniels' Shadowboxer: that it's so luridly overripe it's nuts -- or, at the very least, high camp.

David Cameron picks another silly fight with Europe - Economist.com
24 May 2012, 8:52 pm
He thus ingratiated himself with both Tory backbenchers and the tabloid press, much of which was luridly livid about the court’s stance: “Contempt for Our Democracy” screamed the front page of the Daily Mail. In fairness to Mr Cameron, he has taken a ...

The Debate at Cannes Rages (as Always): What to Boo? - New York Times
24 May 2012, 6:57 pm
A couple of hours after “The Paperboy” had its press premiere, Ms. Kidman and Mr. Daniels sat in a rooftop wine bar at the festival headquarters and talked briefly about how they traveled together into the movie’s luridly pulp, incessantly ...

Cannes 2012: Is 'The Paperboy' a Camp Classic, or an Appalling Mess? - TheWrap
23 May 2012, 6:58 pm
Entertainment Weekly's Owen Gleiberman went out of the way in his review to say nice things about Daniels' talent, but his kinder impulses kept running into his opinion of the movie: "it’s so luridly overripe it’s nuts — or, at the very ...

Four Loko Maker, Still Under Fire, Launches New Malt Beverage Brand - brandchannel.com
22 May 2012, 1:59 pm
The pitch for the less luridly packaged brand: "Moskato Life Brings Attainable Luxury to Today's Emerging Moscato Drinker." "Attainable" as in beats being targeted in boycotts of cheap "alcopop" brands at 7-Eleven, though Phusion's still in that ...

The war on drugs we keep losing - The Age
18 May 2012, 8:27 am
Not so for the luridly lucrative world of children's television (imagine the Twilight Zone with bright pulsating green, scarlet and blue stripes and spots) where the news of generational change in The Wiggles has been eclipsed by the announcement that one ...

CPP Is a Dead Horse, Period! - GhanaHomePage
17 May 2012, 11:16 pm
The pity, however, is for most of its key operatives to continue luridly flirting with that which was never even a quarter as golden and/or meaningful as they would have their handful of captive followers and sympathizers believe. *Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe ...

Devoured by an evil love - The Australian
17 May 2012, 9:26 am
composer Gordon Kerry and librettist Louis Nowra have created an exceptional opera inspired by the effects of a luridly publicised local love triangle that in the end saw two of its protagonists dead. Seven years ago, Maria Korp was discovered, barely ...

LA Story Part One: Chivas USA - The Guardian
16 May 2012, 6:59 pm
As he talks, numerous kids are swarming off to the side of us in a tactic-free pursuit of a luridly colored ball. It ricochets dangerously close to the Ultras beer cooler and Misterio glances up sharply. The kids look wholly unperturbed – the ...

Boozing at the Ballpark - East Bay Express
15 May 2012, 8:05 pm
The Field is one of those luridly wonderful places that only exist in airports and amusement parks and sports arenas and other places that are removed from the outside world in some way, and thus deserves its own paragraph, or possibly, fan club.