Word: sordid
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...GAME LAD, SO WHEN ELTON John was asked to write songs for The Lion King, he said why not. In a career that began 30 years ago with the band Bluesology and thus spans most of the rock era, John had worked and lived in the grand and sordid rock-star tradition: written hundreds of songs, sold albums in the hundred millions, cavorted onstage in tuxes and plumes, dared to announce his bisexuality, endured rehab for alcoholism, cocaine addiction, bulimia. Nothing human was alien to him. But as he began the task of composing melodies to Tim Rice's words...
...Candide is likeable yet not wishy-washy; no mean feat for the only incessantly "serious" character. As Cunegonde, Lisa Saffer simpers about and exploits her body with ease. Her rendition of "Glitter and be gay," sung in various states of undress, is as strewn with jewels as Cunegonde's sordid path through life...
...SORDID TRUTH hidden by the Committee on House Life is the following: sometimes people hate where they live. Sometimes they only mildly dislike it. Sometimes they don't care. Some shameless individuals actually love their houses. Interestingly enough, many find domestic bliss by moving away from the river--where they thought they'd never miss a moment of the Harvard experience--to the Radcliffe Quad...
...TALK-SHOW HOST RICKI Lake and the rise of trash TV was very timely [Television, Jan. 30]. Lane's show in particular was the reason I recently had my cable service canceled. I find it very disturbing that trashy people are allowed to go on national TV with the sordid facts, real or fabricated, about their pathetic lives. These are people I would never associate with or ever want to meet. It's maddening to have them on network TV, screaming out from channel to channel. There are viewers watching these shows who feel if it's on TV, this...
...took to a life of electronic snooping on his neighbors. Into this lair of auditory voyeurism comes Valentine (Irene Jacob), a student and fashion model. Her passionate good nature stirs memories of that other young woman in the judge's life. He is touched, perhaps enough to end his sordid pastime...