Word: sordidly
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Bellevue is not only one of the biggest but probably the most notorious municipal hospital in the U. S. It is best known to tabloid readers as the place where many sordid metropolitan melodramas reach their end. It is also a place where poor people can get complete medical service for very little ($1 to $5 a day) or, if they cannot pay, for nothing. Bellevue, though laboriously breezy and cliché-ridden, gives a thoroughgoing picture of the place-a smell of lysol; a babble of dialects and foreign tongues; tin benches (to discourage lice) in the clinic waiting...
...caused in Libya Hill and the anguish this caused George; 4) the real-estate boom and moral deterioration of Libya Hill, and the town's collapse along with the rest of the U. S. in the 1929 crash; 5) George's four years of soul searching in sordid, proletarian South Brooklyn; 6) George's life in England while writing another book; 7) George's two-day adventures with Novelist Lloyd McHarg (in real life Sinclair Lewis, who plugged Thomas Wolfe in his Nobel Prize address); 8) George's return to Germany and dissatisfaction with...
...leave among tousled trollops and floozies. Six years ago, when one of Cadmus' shore-leave frolics was hung in a Public Works of Art Project exhibition in Washington's Corcoran Gallery, the late Admiral Hugh Rodman, U.S.N. got good & mad. Said he: "It represents a most disgraceful, sordid, disreputable drunken brawl wherein apparently a number of enlisted men are consorting with a party of streetwalkers. . . . This is an unwarranted insult. . . ." Painter Cadmus' canvas was promptly taken down...
...character and turning out a turgid Grade B pot-boiler is now on view for the second week at the Keith Memorial in "Primrose Path." Unoriginal in conception, dull--often interminable--in pace and direction, it tells the story of a sweet young thing (Ginger Rogers) caught in the sordid atmosphere created by a prostitute-mother, a constantly drunken father, and an incredibly cruel grandmother. Falling in love with Joel McCrea because he nearly kills her by reckless driving, she conceals her true identity, has the usual misunderstandings, and emerges happy ever after...
...aside from this shift in emphasis, the movie is all that the author himself could want. More restrained in its criticisms and its language, it is nevertheless frank, sordid, and moving. The characters are sharply etched, the dialogue largely Steinbeck and not Zanttek. "The Grapes of Wrath's is the proof of what has long been suspect: Hollywood is capable of escaping from escapism...