Word: sordidly
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...Baker was a jazz Adonis, with an air of mystery and rebellion not unlike James Dean. These images are hypnotic enough that as Weber cuts to footage of a considerably older man, the viewer can hardly believe that it is Baker himself, making the transition into the sordid tale of his undoing all the more chilling.The intervening years weren’t kind to Baker. The film juxtaposes those early photographs against a man whose charisma and talent concealed a monster that, by 1987, had all but swallowed him whole.As Baker dubiously recounts a 1966 encounter that resulted...
...logo on their ubiquitous fleeces at the mere mention of the word “camping,” I suffered from intense flashbacks of living in a teepee in the middle of the New Mexican desert with my bizarre family every summer of my childhood. But that particular sordid fact from my past, as well as pretty much everything else about me, I firmly intended to shove into the background so that my new persona as a normal, Gore-Tex-loving co-ed could take center stage. All it was going to take, I decided, was a little imagination...
...that could corrupt the nation's youth. Uganda is still a deeply conservative nation, with laws banning homosexuality and abortion. Yet Ugandans are fascinated despite themselves by a Western-style show that showcases Africans engaged in commonly frowned-upon vices. Editorials appear weekly in local newspapers analyzing the latest sordid development...
...What's more, with George Mitchell's report on baseball's sordid steroid history due out by the end of the year, the owners wouldn't be dumb enough to toss another scandal into the off-season mix, right? "Hopefully, baseball has learned its lesson from the past," says Karcher. "From a business perspective, they're doing so well from so many different standpoints, I'd just be surprised if collusion would take place." But remember, we're talking about baseball here, where there's always room for another botched play...
...students while minimizing the potential for corruption.Corporate scandal has been the sustenance of the New York Attorney General’s office for almost a decade. Federal regulations are an effective way of eliminating such scandal in the future, if they are tough and appropriately directed. To prevent further sordid deals between student lenders and universities, we hope that regulators will enact stricter laws and that universities will reform their lending procedures to foster impartiality. Addressing the problem from the perspective of both a lender and a university in this way will create a safer lending environment for college students...