Word: sordidly
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...Levensons not only survived; they managed to do very well indeed. Despite the sordid tenements, putrid poolrooms, stenchy saloons, dirty streets and flying garbage, they provided their children with emotional security and imbued them with dignity. This sometimes rollicking, often tender account of how they did so much with so little is told by their youngest son, Sam, now 54. who became a Brooklyn high school teacher and then a folksy matzo-barrel humorist on TV and the lecture circuit...
...There is no question in my mind that the Viet Nam war is unpopular largely because of television. People see the horrors and the misery of this war-burning villages, weeping mothers, maimed children. They see South Vietnamese troops manhandling Viet Cong suspects, and they see the more sordid aspects of Saigon night life." Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak put it more succinctly. "The U.S.," he said, "has completely lost the information war in Viet...
...procession. Rosi's camera, plays upon the decorations of the altar and the placid smile on a statue of the Virgin Mary and then tilts downward to the miserable peasant boys who must carry the altar on their shoulders. Throughout the film, trappings constantly give way to sordid details in this...
...much on the content of his publications as on the way he peddled them. Speaking for the court in all three cases, Justice William J. Brennan said that Ginzburg's "titillating" advertising was so permeated with "the leer of the sensualist" that he was guilty of "the sordid business of pandering." Brennan took dead aim at "those who would make a business of pandering to the widespread weakness for titillation by pornography." The result: a stiff new rule for obscenity cases that may make a peddler's conduct more important than his product. "Where the purveyor...
...Desert's heavenly heroes are sordid, then its earthly characters are their embodiment in life. The Old Cowboy now wants his home on the range (but he keeps close guard on the stolen bank money), The Gunny nervously keeps his hand on the trigger, his mind on his belly, and his sanity with injections of the needle. The red-blooded Young Cowboy gets the banker's daughter in trouble, and reveals the scene of his home-leaving when his father caught him with his sister: "I was but twelve, but I faced him down even then. I had my colt...