Word: guttering
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...Filthy Gutter...
...such terms did the defense attorney for Irvin C. Scarbeck, 41, a former U.S. embassy official in Poland, describe his client last week. Scarbeck's inner softness led him to lift thin, black-haired Urszula Discher, 22, "up from the gutter," take her as his mistress and then protect her from public disclosure by feeding secrets to Communist agents who had photographed them in bed together...
...readers. We aren't going to further this game by giving publicity to such authors and their titles." This week the Trib printed a revised list of bestsellers from which two titles had been scrubbed. The missing works: Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's steamy bedroom-and-gutter account of his expatriate years in France; and The Carpetbaggers, Harold Robbins' blatantly biological study of Hollywood's seams...
...lately presented the incongruous figure of a Milquetoast engaged in a street brawl. Unwilling to dirty its hands, it has allowed itself to be pushed into the gutter by the left and right of Laos and Cuba. Eventually we will be surely beaten if we do not fight back...
...Grau is a master of the Soft-Focus School of fiction. The events of her stories and novels are not so much perceived as vaguely apprehended, looming unexpectedly through an ambiance of feeling. In her oblique vision the disappointments of childhood are glimpsed in a puddle of frozen gutter water, the fears of adulthood suggested by the sharp, metallic smell of a nearly defunct streetcar line. The method can be tedious, but in her second novel, New Orleans-born Author Grau proves again that in the hands of a first-rate storyteller the shortest route between fact and feeling...