1.   The scientists involved blame the press and its lurid headlines for giving people the wrong impression about Zeta.

2.   In a country that is uniting politically but is still hugely divided culturally, she is nearly unknown to whites except for the lurid headlines.

3.   Tabloids produced lurid headlines about a mysterious pirate vessel manned by naked savages.

4.   The agency gets looked at with each periodic burst of lurid headlines, but nothing gets done.

5.   The public, however, usually hears about schizophrenia only in the context of lurid headlines.

6.   The tabloids followed him around and ran lurid alliterative headlines about his alleged youthful excesses, but they were kind toward him.