Word: seamier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the rash of Kefauver-inspired moving pictures, it is a distinct pleasure to welcome a film which deals with some of the seamier sides of misdirected reform movements...
...Decline" is a series of historical sketches, in which the author produces at least hints at, a fabulous number of facts about the seamier side of the lives of the great. In the interests of humor, he limits his discussion to the homicidal, sexual, alcoholic, criminal, and bestial aspects...
...wrong. In this happily Buddless parody of Richardson's famous classic written in 18th Century idiom, Sinclair shows that though he may no longer be capable of striking Oil! he still has craft and subtlety enough to rig a strong derrick and drill some telling holes in the seamier sides of U.S. life. Not that his plumbings achieve any new level, for in Another Pamela, as "in almost everything he has written, Sinclair sticks close to his favorite theme: the way of life of the wealthy and the power that money...