Word: sordidly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There's endless talk of the trial of the century here in this tiny city, but none of it has to do with that impeachment thing going on 100 miles to the south. No, what has folks here riveted is the really sordid trial. That would be the murder trial of Thomas Capano, a former state prosecutor and high-profile attorney, which comes complete not just with O.J. Simpsonesque details of sex, class, betrayal and death but also with a surprise nearly every...
...some. For example, they did beautiful things to Sanders Theater (that's what happens when you have more than a $ 500 grant from the OFA), so that one entered and felt like one really was by a warm hearth in a land of ale and pudding just before the sordid ugliness of the Industrial Revolution sank in (oh, the theme for this year's Revels was a Dickensian journey through Victorian England). There was holly and gold and props like an affection-starved distant female relative gone too lonely. And enough opulent poofy costumes to cover the sky. On-stage...
...secrets in the law firm's bathroom, we still forgive it, for sake of unfolding the plot. Heck, it is TV, and she has to find out somehow--why not in the bathroom? At this moment, the public is more disgusted by the media's insistence on publishing every sordid detail and the viciousness with which they pounced on this story than by the President's sexual acts...
Depending on how the midterm elections go, several things could happen after Nov. 3, and almost all of them are bad. The Judiciary Committee could proceed with hearings, put Monica under lights, and go through the sordid evidence all over again. Hyde seemed to be edging away from the Broadway show version of this last week. But the Democrats may force his hand in the hope of making the G.O.P. spectacle even more revolting, and sooner or later he is going to have to decide whether there are grounds for impeachment. Then House Speaker Gingrich will have to decide whether...
...sinful sensuality. The Wyoming attack occurred days shy of National Coming Out Day, which was heralded not only by gay organizations but also by the Center for Reclaiming America as it launched a new series of TV ads avowing that conversion to Christianity can reverse even the most sordid of homosexual life-styles. In one ad, the mother of a now nonpracticing homosexual declares, "Just because you love your children, it doesn't mean you approve of everything they do. Sometimes they make bad choices...