Word: sleaziest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When a single day's batch of mail includes a letter from one reader who tells us how much she "adores Joel Stein's celebrity interviews" and another from a reader who thinks Stein is "the nastiest, bitchiest, sleaziest little rat ever to scoot around the halls of TIME," you know you've got one provocative writer on your hands...
...Amsterdam--and more to the point, Disney's corporate presence and the vote of confidence it represents--is the anchor for an ambitious city and state plan to make over 42nd Street, long the area's most notorious thoroughfare. As the sleaziest strip in the sleaziest part of town, the stretch of 42nd Street between Seventh and Eighth avenues was from the late '60s until just a few years ago the ninth circle of Times Square. "You could buy anything you wanted, whether it was drugs or girls or boys or green cards or telephone cards. You really felt like...
This could be a tiresome jape. Making fun of show-biz effluvia has become the easiest, sleaziest way to get a laugh and feel superior. Even cut-rate exploitation movies can possess a delirious visionary gran-deur that makes any sarcasm directed their way seem small-minded. But the MST3K gang have gone far beyond Golden Turkey Awards. For this clever crowd, inept movies are mere cues to asides on politics and society, which they attack with scimitar wit. The show can even be seen as a branch of semiological (and semi-illogical) studies. "I've always been interested...
...criticism of Japanese and American cultures defies value judgments. The most unrepentant in the fast L.A. world of high stakes capitalism is Eddie Sakamura, fantastically played by Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa. Eddie combines the sleaziest of instincts from both sides of the Pacific with a playful indifference...
Perot has hired handlers--Ed Rollins and Hamilton Jordan--who are veterans of the sleaziest campaigns of year past. Perhaps they are partly responsible for Perot's refusal to get specific when it comes to policy questions or proposals...