Word: sordidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this is so I am not quite sure, but I think the answer lies in the fact that the movie lacks the lyrical streak of the novel. As it stands it is simply a sordid and weighty story of the racial injustice of South Africa. An excellent story, I hasten to add, but one so poignant that it needs relief of some sort. From the very beginning when the old native pastor sets off to seek his lost sister and son in the hellhole of Johannesburg, and through the whole story of his agonies on learning that his sister...
...Judge Bernstein did listen-to stories of whippings, blackjackings and assorted cruelties that were hard to believe. But he decided to do some investigating. By last week, he had learned enough to haul Superintendent George R. Ridgway and five of his employees into court in one of the most sordid scandals Arizona has known in years...
...vulgar, sordid fact is that the Elis, with juniors John Marshall, Wayne Moore, Jim McLane, and Don Sheff, and freshman Kerry Donovan, have already won the E.I.S.L. championship for 1952 and 1953, and probably for '54 and '55. In fact, Harvard has beaten Yale exactly twice in 23 years under Ulen--in 1937 (breaking an Eli dual meet streak of 163) and again in 1938. As of last weekend the Yalies were working on a new streak of 82 wins. And two years ago, in a listing of the beat swimming teams in America, first was the Yale freshman squad...
...first glance, the members of the Los Angeles school board seemed to be eminently respectable citizens. Then the city began to take a closer look. Last week, after a year of public investigation, Los Angeles clearly saw as sordid a scandal as has ever come out of a big city's schools...
...very thing that gives Pal Joey its distinction-its unabashed look at sordid doings-may always disconcert the people for whom musicomedy means moonlight & roses, or at any rate does not mean blackmail and kept men. O'Hara's account of a small-time heel with his naive boasts and shameless buttering-up, and of the rich, man-eating tigress who loves him enough to keep him in style and stake him to a nightclub, but who coolly leaves him before he can leave her, is vividly hardboiled. For once, musicomedy plays with people rather than paper dolls...