Word: sordidity
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...Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht don't fit the sitcom plot. The play's as far from Brecht & Weill's Three penny Opera as a Keystone Kops film is from Little Caesar. Both plays recount the daring misdeeds and romantic entanglements of a gangster, but Threepenny Opera's sordid outlaws become Happy End's petty, bumbling bullies. Despite a denunciation of capitalism tacked on at the end, Happy End is insubstantial fluff, a romantic comedy expertly staged and acted by the American Repertory Theatre Company...
Meyer's son-in-law Philip Graham took over the paper in 1945 and then slowly went mad. Where Halberstam wallows in the sordid story of Graham's madness, Bray plays the schoolmarm and drops clipped phrases here and there about Graham's "worsening condition" and his trips to institutions. We learn only that Graham killed himself in 1963. If a desire not to dredge up unpleasant memories for the participants in Bray's excuse (and not a very good one) for his truncated discussion of Graham, it still doesn't explain his scanty attention to the players...
...from the outset. As the drama unfolds, a child emerges from the London blitz, scarred by the violent flames. The child, named Matty in a hospital, is Hell personified, soon to become Golding's "man in black." The author unravels Matty's story slowly, with detours to introduce other sordid children and wicked adults. Fires predominate in Darkness Visible, as a great bomb blast at the end complements Matty's fiery furnace. All of Golding's characters in one way or another are ravaged by these unyielding flames, which serve as bookends for this allegorical tale...
...photo opportunity" with the chairperson of the National Alliance for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse-none other than Sophia Loren, in oversize sunglasses and simple red dress. Said she: "We need help, a lot of help, to awaken the world's consciousness to this sordid and persistent crime." Responded Jimmy Carter, as all those against child abuse crowded around: "One of the most beautiful chairpersons that I have ever had in the White House...
...accused the U.N. of doing nothing about atrocities during the Shah's rule and of involving itself with Iran only after it was prodded by Washington over the hostages. According to a Foreign Ministry statement, Ghotbzadeh told Waldheim: "The superpowers and their satellites continue their sordid maneuvers to manipulate the U.N. machinery for their own ends...