Word: sordidly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hollywood, that chimerical land of sudden riches and happy endings, is being rocked by protests about sordid abuses in the real world. A number of stars, directors and independent producers, who had kept their mouths shut in the past for fear of jeopardizing their careers, are speaking out against the fast shuffles dealt them over the years by the studios...
...Republican political animal" who took office "with viciousness in his heart and for only one reason-to get Democrats." In response, Delaware G.O.P. Congressman Thomas Evans pointed out that Marston had nailed two Republicans along with several Democrats, and had urged an independent congressional investigation "of this increasingly sordid affair." Republican Senate Judiciary Committee members are planning to keep the controversy boiling at confirmation hearings later this winter for Civiletti as Deputy Attorney General and Baker as U.S. Attorney for Baltimore...
...characters seem sordid, the caliber of acting redeems all. It is ensemble work of the very first order; in this the four men are truly brothers...
...that the other two are there. Then a spotlight, often the most important actor in a Beckett drama, shines on each in turn, leaving the others in darkness. The spotlight is both narrator and inquisitor, forcing each of the three to tell his or her side of the same sordid story of betrayed love and adultery. Released from their urns and the grip of the spotlight, the three faces-of husband, wife and mistress-would be re-enacting a domestic triangle in an old-fashioned drawing room...
While there was plenty of sordid reading matter in the huge archives that were opened to the public, an additional 16,000 pages of COINTELPRO files have been withheld on the ground that their release would jeopardize FBI investigative techniques or informants. That material, too, contains some highly incriminating documents concerning bureau activities...