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...like, an odd characteristic given Brady's argument that London played a significant role in determining Boswell's mood. And the little bit of London that we do see finds Brady slipping into the same trap that misleads all too many 18th century scholars. London may have had many sordid aspects, the extensive prostitution as an example, but there was also much beauty to the city, a beauty to which Boswell certainly was exposed and which helped to shape his character...
...years ago a movie version of Pennies from Heaven was released, starring Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters. It sank like a stone at the box office, but it succeeded where this Shrew failed. In Pennies, the brilliant images of the 30$ musicals are shown as the only release of sordid Depression reality. In Taming, the sordid realities of the burlesque theater are stretched to-carry an anachronistic theme of female subjugation. Pennies, for all of its jarring idiosyncacies, was a thoughtful reinterpretation of the American myth of the big musicals; Taming is equally thoughtful, but the theme and the setting...
...previous day on Christine's desk. The man, it turns out, is her long-distance lover Reve is elated: megalomania becomes monomania, as he schemes and manipulates Christine into inviting the lad for a visit to the beach house. The three-some's little idyll goes from sordid to ugly, however, as Reve begins to experience a series of fantasies that turn out to be real-life omens and supernatural warnings of all sorts...
...abuse and fiendish behavior long past the moment when the reader wants to hurl the book at the wall, she gradually becomes aware that in their 22 years of marriage, she has never known what exactly he does, besides lawyering. Turns out he's involved in all sorts of sordid and shady dealings--with two of her brothers involved, no less...
SOME FEMINISTS would describe the trial as a direct reflection of the double standard within our society. Whereas a male plaintiff remains relatively unimpugnable no matter how sordid his personal history, a woman who displays less than pristine behavior in one set of circumstances is assumed to automatically "invite" attack in all others...