Word: seamier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Celine dove into politics after years of traveling and observing the seamier side of life, which alternately fascinated, disturbed and delighted him, and from which he gleaned material for his novels. Dance and dancers represented Celine's ideal of beauty, and McCarthy notes that this was, "ironically, fostered by the popular variety shows of wartime London." But his wandering in such milieus provided him with an even broader spectrum of sordid images: a savvy pimp initiated him into Soho's brothels; he was struck by the loneliness and humiliation of urban life in New York; the inhumanity of Detroit...
...does it have any desire to be critical about America's press, advertising or television. What it does want to do, however, is jam the issue so full with big names as to appeal to anyone interested in the latest gossip in all three areas. Those curious about the seamier side of the press will enjoy reading about "Ben and Sally." T.V. viewers will no doubt want to read about Walter and Walters. Advertising moguls can learn what Ted Bates is up to. And those ubiquitous Times watchers should get out their scorecards: there must be more than 25 familiar...
Schlesinger's first mistake was to attempt to induce a plot line into a novel which has no story. West's book is less a novel than a series of sketches of the seamier side of life in Hollywood which he combines into a collage of circus-like characters, aggressively pursuing empty dreams, turning vicious at the earliest opportunity to express their frustration and disillusionment...
...dispute involved several high-ranking Conservative politicians, including former M.P. and Defense Minister Duncan Sandys. It featured ingenious tax dodges such as paying huge executive emoluments into bank accounts in the tax haven of the Cayman Islands and rent-free accommodations for directors. More revelations touching on the seamier side of relations between business and government were being predicted in London. They could cause considerably more long-range difficulties for Heath than the coltish antics of a brace of aging aristocrats...
...from doing tough exposes and offbeat features and waging anti-Establishment crusades. Eight years ago, Cleveland Plain Dealer Publisher Thomas Vail decided that his paper needed revitalizing. Over several years, he recruited nearly a score of new staffers who were nicknamed "the young tigers." He loosed them on the seamier side of Ohio's largest city, and the paper's investigative reporting blossomed. Beamed Vail: "Terrific, just terrific...