Word: sordidly
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...four days, the jurors heard sordid and conflicting testimony about a stormy marriage marred by fights, infidelity and abortion. The wife, Greta Rideout, 23, testified that on Oct. 10, her husband John, 21, an unemployed cook, demanded that they have sex. When she refused, she said, he chased her in and outside of their apartment, threw her to the floor, struck her three times and choked her. "I decided to submit to him, to what he wanted." John Rideout admitted that they had been arguing, but he told a different story: "She hit me first. She slapped me. I grabbed...
...Threepenny Opera is long--almost three hours--and demands a versatile cast of singing actors. They don't have to be polished--gravelly, ugly voices suit Weill's music better than smooth ones, anyway. But they have to capture the sordid decadence that fills both text and music--they need a sense of atmosphere. The production fails because director and performers never secure this black mood...
Other performers in the Caravan production are obviously talented but don't even try to be sordid. You would be glad to have Ida Beecher's Mrs. Peachum as your grandmother; she plays the kind old lady to perfection, but brings an element of benevolence onto Brecht's stage that doesn't belong there...
...coeds through a window. In any other college movie, his efforts would not pay off, but here they do in spades. Belushi's wide eyes take in one gorgeous nude body after another as the girls engage in pillow fights and unmentionable other acts. Yet there is nothing sordid about his voyeurism; it seems almost pure. That is because the Lampoon people understand the darkest secret of an American college education: one of the noblest reasons to go is to spend four years studying sex. -Frank Rich
...SMALL BAND of brave whites surrounded by maddened savages on the Dark Continent: it was the sort of story that once gave a romantic veil to the sordid history of Africa's colonization. American newspapers seized on the invasion of Shaba province by Katangan rebels and the subsequent rescue mission by French and Belgian paratroopers, as if they had found a modern version of Stanley and Livingston. The Boston Herald-American screamed out "Whites Massacred in Zaire," while Newsweek, slightly less hysterically racist, went with "Massacre in Zaire." White casualties were carefully tabulated and lamented, but the death toll...