Word: sordidness
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Even by Pakistan's cynical political standards, last week's selection of a new Prime Minister seemed a sordid affair. This was an arrangement rigged outside Parliament. It was struck in a jail cell, in lengthy telephone calls to exiled politicians wanting a comeback, and with the usual allegations of bribes and threats directed at legislators. None of this offers much hope for the start of President Pervez Musharraf's new brand of what he calls "guided democracy...
Closer is not about closeness, and it does not foster intimacy. Patrick Marber’s 1999 play revolves around Alice (Michelle A. Chaney ’05), a stripper with a sordid past; her boyfriend Dan (Charles E. Worthington ’06), a charming idealist; Anna (Jordan R. Berkow ’03), a hardened introvert, and her husband Larry (George F. Broadwater ’04), a self-defeating altruist. The four Londoners throughout the play attempt to unravel the mess resulting from their complicated partner swapping...
...corporate America falling apart? Each day brings sordid details of dirty dealings at the highest levels of what were once our most respected companies. The sleaze at Enron and Arthur Andersen shocked us. Now it's Tyco's turn, and it won't be the last...
When West became involved in a very public spat with University President Lawrence H. Summers, race became the sordid subtext to the whole disgraceful affair. West was upset at Summers’ alleged accusations that West needed to spend more time on serious scholarship. Shortly after West announced he was leaving for Princeton, he infamously called Summers “in one sense…the Ariel Sharon of American higher education,” specifically claiming that Summers “acts like a bull in a china shop.” But in retrospect, it appears that...
...condemnations of the priesthood, predictions of the end of a 2,000-year-old religion. Many Americans watched, sighed and waited for it to pass. But then came the story of the Rev. Paul Shanley. Last week, after all the adjectives had already been used, the details of his sordid career became public--and suddenly there truly were no words too strong...