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Those questions go, of course, to the heart of just how much Nixon can be hurt by the whole sordid affair. A survey conducted for the Wall Street Journal by a Princeton, N.J., polling firm disclosed last week that Watergate is arousing widespread concern and is seriously damaging the President and his party. Clearly, Nixon and his staff are going to have to face up to the consequences of Watergate and the manner in which the President's re-election campaign was conducted. It is not enough to issue indignant denials and then claim that aides can discuss...
...White House in trying to detect sources of news leaks, apparently got the stiff sentence-and no provision for its review-because he has not shown any sign that he could be persuaded to disclose more about the case. The Watergate crimes, said Sirica in sentencing, were "sordid, despicable and thoroughly reprehensible...
Relflections in a Golden Eye (1967) Marlon Brando and Liz Taylor in Carson McCullers's sordid tale of seething sexuality on an Army base in Italy. CH. 7. 11:30 p.m. Color...
...acted out this nostalgic retreat--a bunch of stags, drinking it up, chumming it up over dirty stories, studding the egos up with dirty displays, and even making a contest out of it, cross-legged in a large circle so that everyone could hear, on and on until the sordid details were stretched way beyond titillating plausibility, yet still on until everyone had got his horny rocks off. And no one seemed much bothered by this exhibition of rooster revelry. In fact, one eyewitness registered relief...
...everyone who did not agree that absolutely nothing could be permitted to disrupt the University during the 1969 Harvard strike. Although analytically unsound (students, he said, held radical beliefs because they were either 'crazy' or bereft of feminine companionship), the book was received with predictable acclaim by a sordid mixture of tired old leftists-turned-cold warriors and outright conservatives...