Word: sordidity
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...then of course, there are the artists. One can hardly imagine that Ralph Waldo Emerson, Class of 1821, T.S. Eliot ’10 and e.e. cummings ’15 got through their time here without at least a few drug indulgences themselves. Theatricals, too, have their own sordid history—especially the Hasty Pudding kind. Most will remember that a couple of years ago, two Pudding producers were charged with embezzlement of over $200,000 (they learned it from Enron, not Harvard, we swear), a large portion of which apparently went to support a producer?...
...presidents—Democrats and Republicans—have played the same game. Harold Ickes, the deputy White House chief of staff under President Clinton, famously helped manage Clinton’s re-election campaign from inside the West Wing. But a squalid past is no excuse for a sordid future...
Bryant now bounces from the criminal-justice system into the civil arena. His attorneys may have to assign a price to keep him from giving what will be a very sordid deposition. Atlanta attorney L. Lin Wood, who represents the plaintiff, told TIME, "There have been no settlement discussions with respect to the civil case," adding that Bryant's apology was independent of the civil matter...
...DIED. RICK JAMES, 56, early '80s funk icon known for his outrageous fashion sense and a sordid personal life that included a five-year prison sentence for assault; of undetermined causes; in Los Angeles. His infectious 1981 single Super Freak launched him to superstardom, but his career was soon derailed by a decade-long cocaine addiction. Comeback efforts in the '90s were sidelined by a stroke and hip-replacement surgery...
...often overlooked side of fame. Neither dominating pop culture for any substantial amount of time nor laboring away without any success, Semisonic and Slichter have walked a much more subtle path. The stories he has to tell of the music business’ endless convolutions are not quite sordid, but neither are they ever boring—Slichter’s voice is vicariously thrilling at the highs even as it chronicles the maddeningly banal roadblocks to chart domination...