Word: sordidly
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...best actors in the film are Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan (also known as the Phosphorescent Leech and Eddie), who used to sing lead for the Turtles. They helped write the film and do almost all the vocals. It's weird to see them in this sordid film and realize that they are the same people who used to sing "Happy Together" and "I Know She'd Rather Be With...
...over the past several months, stories of police corruption in New York City have leaked out to the public. Last week the most sordid story to date was told by the first witness at hearings held by the blue-ribbon Knapp Commission, which is investigating crime in the department. William Phillips, on the force for 14 years, explained how he and innumerable other cops had taken graft as casually as they had handed out parking tickets. Payoffs for criminal protection came as regularly as paychecks-and often amounted to a lot more. Far from working to cut down the city...
...book, which comes from the Buddha, courtesy of T.S. Eliot. The original Fire Sermon, preached 2,500 years ago, consigned all the physical nature of man-birth and passion and death-to flames. The one that forms the central panel of The Waste Land tries to burn away the sordid sterility of casual modern sex. Wright Morris' bonfire is more modest. What goes up in flames is the treasure and junk that three or four generations of stiff-backed people have squirreled away in an empty homestead-including various machines supplied with cranks that "would all do something...
...approached in the sordid lounge of the famed Alcron Hotel by a portly, fortyish fellow who sported a handsome toothbrush mustache and a button-down Oxford-cloth shirt. He plumped himself down in an overstuffed armchair next to me. After ordering scotch with water "but no ice," he introduced himself as "Roger Smith, a professor of social sciences." He noted that he was an American scholar studying the aftereffects of the "Prague Spring" and the Soviet invasion. With a heavy Slavic accent, he lapsed for several minutes into part sociological jargon, part hilariously outdated American slang, last heard...
...York women demonstrate the changing-but not completely changed-attitudes. Sarah, the 47-year-old wife of a policeman and mother of four, underwent four illegal abortions years ago in order to space out the arrival of her children. She remembers the operations as sordid and painful, still has difficulty discussing them and regrets that she had to "play God with my children." Her eldest daughter, Jane, 25, an attractive college graduate married to a systems engineer, has had two abortions. Jane had an illegal out-of-state operation 16 months ago because she wanted to finish her studies...