Word: sordidity
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Getting a headache from all this convoluted pardon talk? Tired of squinting at news reports, trying to decipher the meaning of the latest sordid developments? Never fear: TIME.com is here with a handy Pardongate timeline. Check back often for the latest news...
...there's one thing this sordid episode proves, it's that Jackson believes black folks will tolerate almost any behavior from their leaders. But this time he's gone too far. Impregnating Karin Stanford--a former political-science professor who at the time of the affair was head of the Washington office of Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition--wasn't a minor ethical lapse. It's hard to think of any act more certain to knock Jackson, who was a 56-year-old father of five when the baby was conceived, off the moral high horse from which he has preached...
...epoch. Clinton has thrived in a time when Americans are more interested in the color of money than the content of their leaders' character, and so we have allowed Slick Willie's solid economic stewardship to trump his betrayals of trust, the corruption of his cronies and his outrageously sordid personal life...
Today, everything is available, to everyone, at any time. Every deviant desire, dark fantasy and sordid dream can be realized, at a reasonable price. Forget "normalizing homosexuality"--something the Right has been worrying over since the advent of gay liberation. Today, the Internet and DirecTV are normalizing everything, from group sex to bestiality to darker things that decency forbids mentioning. And as for pedophilia--why, any erotic website worth its salt promises links to images of the "barely legal," "young teen sluts," and all the rest. Today, Nabokov's Humbert would need not be a tragic figure; instead, he could...
...Martin: People have compared it to the works on Ann Carlson, whom I?ve never read. And Martin Amis? "The Rachel Papers," which I didn?t read until after writing this, has a more sordid love affair, but there?s still a one-on-one ? how the interest grows and diminishes...