Word: sordidly
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WILL THE TEAMSTERS EVER GO straight? Not with the attitude problem they've got. America's largest and most corrupt labor union remains in love with its sordid past, which is making it nearly impossible for it to forge an honest future. The attitude is reflected vividly in Hoffa, the new $40 million movie starring Jack Nicholson. The film tends to romanticize the life of the union's most infamous leader, Jimmy Hoffa, portraying him as a folk hero, a "friend of labor" who may have done deals with the Mob but only to help his Teamsters brothers and never...
...integrity. And realizing the way political campaigns actually function only serves to further disillusion voters. For the sake of Americans everywhere, I hope the Bush campaign will be more careful with its confidential memos. It is not healthy for Americans to be allowed such clear insight into the sordid nature of political campaigns...
...PEOPLE'S BUSINESS," AS the work of the U.S. Congress is often called, began on a note of high drama back in January 1991, when members of the 102nd class of representatives debated the wisdom of going to war in the Persian Gulf. How quickly they fell. From the sordid hearings concerning the sexual proclivities of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to bounced checks at the House Bank and mismanagement at the House Post Office, this Congress thereafter rarely contrived to escape the mire of its own making. And when on occasion it did, its effectiveness was usually blunted...
...failing the ultimate values test -- the willingness to assume responsibility for one's own shortcomings. "That was some piece of work," says a Bush campaign official, "and I'm sure we'll be hearing more in the same vein. We're trying to remind people of Clinton's sordid past, and he's saying the President lacks the guts to face his own complicity for what's wrong. We look cheap, and Clinton looks presidential...
...narrative reshaped for La Jolla by McAnuff and composer- lyricist Pete Townshend has an essential innocence, maybe even an excess of optimism. The title character, apparently deaf and blind from boyhood, is in fact rendered autistic by seeing his father shoot his mother's lover -- an infidelity made less sordid by the fact that the father, a World War II airman, had been reported dead. Over the years the boy is sexually molested by an uncle, battered by a cousin, tossed like a beanbag by insensitive adolescents. He remains serenely withdrawn. When the spell is broken -- when he re-enters...