Word: seedier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bursts of static. The work responds to an edgy sensibility: Europe of the '20s and '30s, and Northern Europe at that, the dictators' playground. When the Mediterranean world appears, it is not the, sumptuous place imagined by Matisse or Picasso, but either Catalonia or the seedier Levantine environment of Cavafy's Alexandria. Its heroes, whose ghostly presences are often quoted in Kitaj's paintings, are the shipless helmsmen of modernism, the rootless cosmopolitans like the couple in Where the Railroad Leaves the Sea (1964). Kitaj paints wandering Jews and victims of the power game: Walter...
...Puritan Ethic might have built this place, but it's the old play-now, pay-whenever attitude that keeps everything running. It's all very pleasant. New cars wall-to-wall, French-blended food, and Mork and Mindy whenever you want them--but there is a seedier side to all of this . . . just wait until...
...That seedier side is the subject of Skip Tracer, a new Canadian film from the nether reaches of British Columbia. A skip tracer is a fellow who tracks down anyone who has skipped out on a debt. He's the smiling guy in the three-piece suit nailing a For Sale sign on your house, repossessing your car, walking out with all your living room furniture. It's all legal--after all these things are no longer yours--but it's a nasty business, and the people who do it for a living are nastier still--picture...
This time, both the guests and their setting (a tavern) are seedier. So are the cards, the so-called Marseille tarots first printed in the 18th century. More mythic figures appear among the guests, but the stories also take on sooty overtones of industrialism and hints of the modern totalitarian state. The author seeks his own story in the pack. "Perhaps," he ventures, "the moment has come to admit that only tarot number one honestly depicts what I have succeeded in being: a juggler, or conjurer, who arranges on a stand at a fair a certain number of objects...
...recent months, however, the Chelsea has also become an occasional hangout for a seedier brand of clientele -prostitutes, pimps and gamblers-and last week their high jinks snared some surprised Chelsea guests in an ugly rape-and-robbery incident. A third-floor room was serving as an all-night gambling den, with sex available as an added lure. At least 13 men and women, some of them registered guests, made their way to room 330 for the night's gambol. Around 7 a.m. Sunday, two men crashed the party at gunpoint. The pair made the partygoers strip and stole...