Word: sordidness
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...Clinton ordered stricter regulation of nursing homes, and this week the Senate will hold hearings on the matter. Thompson says the hearings are an important chance for Americans to become more aware of the awful conditions in some of the nation's nursing homes. His second installment of this sordid tale appears this week. And if nursing-home operators fail to meet the stricter regulations, you can bet there will be a third...
...state of affairs in Connecticut that has hemmed Hex and Billie and Billie's husband Lou Sloane into standard suburban lives; instead, he analyzes and describes and unravels character and action and landscape in scintillating prose. He is a young author who chooses to write about rather sordid, dull aspects of modern life, to be sure, but he follows an old, old tradition of writing wellcrafted, intelligent novels with Purple America...
...week, you can enjoy their marital spats from the comfort of your own home. If you're lucky, and you will be, the Mrs. will choose to demonstrate her independence by removing her clothing. At this point, Jerry will likely turn his head away in shame, astonished by the sordid exhibition he has inadvertently unleashed. After all, Jerry's just trying to save a marriage...
...might be just the tonic humanity needs to knock out some of its arrogance and softness and regain that good old spiritual edge we used to have back when we were all sacrificing goats to the rain deity and receiving stone tablets on mountaintops. We didn't worry about sordid political scandals in those days...
Kennedy, Eisenhower and Roosevelt all had affairs; all were considered competent Presidents; all fulfilled their obligation to the country. Why don't we let President Clinton do his job and not allow this sordid affair to divert America from its real concerns? LILYAN P. ATKINS Wilmington...