Word: sordidly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...TALK-SHOW HOST RICKI Lake and the rise of trash TV was very timely [Television, Jan. 30]. Lane's show in particular was the reason I recently had my cable service canceled. I find it very disturbing that trashy people are allowed to go on national TV with the sordid facts, real or fabricated, about their pathetic lives. These are people I would never associate with or ever want to meet. It's maddening to have them on network TV, screaming out from channel to channel. There are viewers watching these shows who feel if it's on TV, this...
...took to a life of electronic snooping on his neighbors. Into this lair of auditory voyeurism comes Valentine (Irene Jacob), a student and fashion model. Her passionate good nature stirs memories of that other young woman in the judge's life. He is touched, perhaps enough to end his sordid pastime...
Sadly, such actions seem a distant possibility. The American surrender only caps what has become one of the most sordid tales in recent history. With the polarizing effect of the Cold War diminished and the world's strongest military alliance standing right next door, the Western powers had all the right conditions to make a stand for international civility when the carnage began in Yugoslavia. Instead, they have allowed crimes unseen in Europe since the Nazis...
...playwright. His latest play, Dancing at Lughnasa, presents as different a perspective on the world from that of his first play, Faith Healer, as The Tempest does from Hamlet. The themes--of the ambiguity, uncertainty and misunderstanding that wrack our lives--endure. But in Dancing at Lughnasa, through the sordid banality and chaos, Friel strikes an indulgent, optimistic note...
Harvard professor Stephen Jay Gould painstakingly critiques this sordid history in his oft-praised book "The Mismeasure of Man." As Gould notes, American scientist H. H. Goddard wrote in 1919 that superior intelligence ensures social dominance: "Democracy is a method for arriving at a truly benevolent aristocracy." While America has changed significantly through the century, Murray's argument is eerily reminiscent of earlier dubious claims...