1.   Mixed in with familiar hopes of marriage and military service were dreams of lurid crimes and drugs and, a romantic enchantment with the sheer act of killing.

2.   Over the last few years, Long Island has been rocked by one lurid crime after another, almost to the point of caricature.

3.   So the title character, a pretty young officer who the film thinks has no place in the military, is the victim of a lurid crime.

4.   So the title character, a pretty young officer whom the film thinks has no place in the military, is the victim of a lurid crime.

5.   Writer-director Quentin Tarantino grinds a century of lurid melodramatic crime fiction into an entirely new blend.

6.   Lurid crimes of superstition have cropped up in the state media.