Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shame Without Blame. Nevertheless, the carpeting appropriation still stood, and the doors will come off for a refit. Last week, as Senators and their staffs moved from their cramped quarters in the old Senate Office Building over to the White Goof (only 42 out of 98 are making the switch), Washingtonians were still casting around for somebody to blame...
Gaudy old Galveston (pop. 75,000) has been a wide-open sin city and the gaudy shame of Texas since the days when Pirate Jean Lafitte made it his island playground. Prostitution flourishes in the houses of Post Office Street, one of the last unabashed red-light districts in the nation. After-hours gin mills and gambling joints thrive in defiance of Texas laws, under the tacit protection of kickback-hungry city officials. From time to time, ambitious reformers have made feeble efforts to clean up Galveston, but the town has always quickly returned to its wicked ways, partly because...
...tell your friends in Russia about Willy, and be sure to add that his opinion is restricted to only a few. Millions of our Negoes are unwilling to endure the shame of segregation," Jack Bowles told...
Featured along with Street of Shame are a conventionally violent cartoon and a Henry Fonda-narrated short about Grant Wood...
...stark and tortured portrait of Tokyo's historical red-light district after the occupation, the Japanese film Street of Shame, reaches toward the superb level of its predecessor Rashomon. Dealing with the highly controversial issue of legalized prostitution, it does not bypass cliches ("Does an unnecessary business last so long?"), nor does it resist the opportunity to moralize. Nevertheless cliches and moralizing inherently attach themselves to the problem, which Street of Shame approaches warily and with artistic detachment...