Word: sordidly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perfect example of the genre. Written by Raymond Chandler, it stars Barbara Stanwyck as the sexy but neglected housewife who seduces an insurance salesman into helping her murder her husband to collect the settlement. The languorous turns of the plot combine with the shadowy camera work to create a sordid, shabby world of moral decay...
...member of the Austrian Nazi party and of the S.S., to withdraw as a candidate for the presidency of the Rotary International. But it speaks ill of that organization, and specifically of its central nominating committee, that Wick's candidacy was not terminated immediately after authoritative information about his sordid and criminal past became known. And it is to the discredit of the Boston Rotary chapter that they made no formal protest of the Wick nomination and instead professed a desire to wait until the Rotary International responded to the evidence produced by war crimes investigator Simon Wiesenthal and corroborated...
...thrillers a "craft" or a pulp writer a "masterful technician," generally revealing that the formulas don't hold up for long and that while reading them is somewhat understandable in this cruel world, the activity is about as respectable as doing crossword puzzles or eating Darvon. Life's little sordid pleasures...
...spring of 1974, Institute administrators made plans to bring another controversial Nixon aide, "communications chief" Clay T. Whitehead, to Cambridge, and the Institute's student advisory board made a huge fuss. But two years ago students were still morally outraged about the sordid revelations that a summer of Senate Watergate hearings had produced. This year, two weeks ago, when Malek arrived to conduct a study group called "Politics and Public Management," no one seemed overly anxious about, or even particularly aware of, Malek's past...
...Timothy Leary type), one whore and one dwarf have gathered for a weekend of debauchery. Given the strange passions of some, sexual ambivalence of others, and a wide range of futuristic drugs, it is not surprising that Amis is able to generate more than two hundred pages of sordid situations...