Word: sordidity
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...extant stills and videos of the actual events at the prison. Finally, there are the ghosts - shadowy evanescent figures that are supposed to represent the unseen forces that ordered up the torments inflicted on the Abu Ghraib prisoners. All of this seems to me at odds with the very sordid story Morris is trying to tell. It distracts from, even vitiates, the moral power inherent in the film...
...upper ranks; they were simply in a bureaucratic frenzy to supply their political masters something that could be made to look like plausible intel. An interrogator insists that nothing useful could be obtained by the often sexually charged ?techniques? employed in a prison that was a sordid, antique, ill-situated (it was almost daily under mortar fire), ill-equipped and ill-supplied. He also - very tellingly - observes that when the truth about Abu-Ghraib came out, no one above the rank of Master Sergeant was ever successfully prosecuted for any of the obviously illegal activities that went...
...independents, new young voters or disaffected Republicans. They don't care about the health of the Democratic Party. All they care about is winning - if not now, eventually. It is time for the Clintons to go, take their baggage and park it at the Clinton library, where all their sordid secrets can remain hidden from our view. Ken Kosier, Verona...
...independents, new young voters or disaffected Republicans. They don't care about the health of the Democratic Party. All they care about is winning - if not now, eventually. It is time for the Clintons to go, take their baggage and park it at the Clinton Library, where all their sordid secrets can remain hidden from our view. Ken Kosier, VERONA...
...homer,” after all, would have a hard time scaring up affection for perennial cellar-dweller Columbia. But just as the extracurricular activities of a certain state official have proven too scintillating for the front pages to ignore, the Times believes it has found a similarly sordid narrative to plant on the back pages. Thus came the paper’s report last Tuesday that the former jewel of Harvard’s “highly regarded recruiting class,” six-foot-ten Nigerian-born center Frank Ben-Eze, has reneged on his commitment...