Word: sordidness
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...Given how quickly he has re-written track history, and the sport's varied sordid scandals with performance-enhancing drugs, questions about his diet were quickly followed by those about what else he might be taking in. That's the tragedy of track: it always pays to be skeptical. Bolt's fellow sprinters rushed to his defense. "I have no doubt [he's clean]" says Christian Malcolm of Great Britain, who finished fifth. "He enjoys the moment. That inspired Michael Johnson to run fast. Why can't that inspire Usain Bolt?" Crawford ignites. "People always assume you're cheating...
Quite often, though strangely not in Kerry's case, the referendum gambit is a rationale for mudslinging. This year we have John McCain's attempt to paint Obama as aloof, messianic ... a celebrity, like Paris or Britney. The McCain ads have the slightly sordid quality of an inside joke: Oprah Winfrey called Obama "the One," and McCain's dyspeptic staffers latched on to that moniker, and now there's a sardonic ad using the messianic nickname, filled with celestial images of Obama smiling and orating grandiloquently, followed by Charlton Heston parting the Red Sea. When Obama--correctly--said that keeping...
Bristling with code names like "Clipper" and "Rheingold," Germany's latest corporate scandal seems like the stuff of a Cold War espionage novel. But as merely the latest in a series of corporate shenanigans, it may actually reflect the newly sordid style of business at Germany...
...That this sordid spectacle burst like an errant firework in front of his impressive array of guests will certainly have embarrassed the Israeli Prime Minister. A Monday poll showed that 59% of Israelis now believe that Olmert should resign...
...dogfaces. It was, and it should remain, a central symbol of what is surely the most immoral and misguided military adventure in American history. All I am arguing here is that Morris?s manner of relating this story is very often quite inappropriate to its substance. It is a sordid and appalling tale and what it demands is almost an anti-style - rough, crude, grim, technically poor imagery unrelieved by sleek, slick fancy work. If you are going to rub our noses in this ugliness, you must not let up until, perhaps, we have learned our lesson...