Word: sordidly
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...misdirection of the public by a few Colorado kooks looking for their fifteen minutes. The hoax’s exposure brings with it another one of much greater significance. Obsessive television coverage of “Balloon Boy” is indicative of the media’s own sordid state. This episode brings to light a news environment in which sensationalism trumps responsible reporting and where the quick sell far outweighs any shade of journalistic integrity...
...Thanks to the FBI's wiretap, the complaints - filed by the U.S. Attorney's Office (criminal) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (civil) - contain some amazingly sordid snippets. In one, Rajaratnam and Danielle Chiesi, a portfolio manager at another hedge fund, apparently discuss how to avoid attracting the attention of regulators. In another, the two contemplate whether the senior vice president at IBM would be more valuable to them at a different firm. In a third, Chiesi, upon sharing non-public details about an upcoming reorganization of the microchip maker AMD, tells an alleged co-conspirator...
...book. "Say something nice about it or I'll hunt you down and kill you," he said, and then giggled nervously. The 51-year-old rock musician and frontman for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds was referring to his second novel, The Death of Bunny Munro, a sordid tale about a sex-crazed, drug-addled, adulterous traveling salesman and the 9-year-old son with whose care he suddenly finds himself charged. Cave discussed his music, the gold statue he wanted to erect in his hometown and, of course, his new novel - which is very interesting but kind...
...whacked" and asked him to do the job. (Gonzalez claims he refused - although he boasted to police, without offering details, that he's taken part in other murders for hire.) Morgan tells TIME he expects to make more arrests soon in a homicide case that's become shocking and sordid enough to recall Truman Capote's In Cold Blood - and one that has orphaned the Billings' 17 children, 13 of them adopted and most with disabilities like Down Syndrome. "We'd all prefer it if this were a group of losers visiting a random act of violence on this family...
...that have invited much criticism. Silvio Berlusconi—the Italian prime minister—seems to have gambled with the choice of L’Aquila for the July G8 summit in order to draw attention away from recent accusations that his social life resembles that of a sordid playboy’s. Since people use symbols to convey something beyond the obvious, Berlusconi’s political symbolism at the G8 summit might be cynically viewed as having a particularly hollow and manipulative motive...