Word: tawdriest
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...cats at least brought a little glamour to their garbage pile. The America on display in the Jerry Springer opera is a place where white-trash yahoos willingly air their tawdriest laundry in public for a few minutes of TV fame. The show is just one example of a wave of new stage works overseas that put the U.S. in a distinctly unflattering light. In Paris a "savagely satirical impromptu" called George W. Bush or God's Sad Cowboy has been drawing crowds since reopening in late Mayafter closing for two weeks when its writer-director, Attilio Maggiulli, was beaten...
...example: a moist-eyed Clinton hails the Travelgate-embattled Hillary in his 1996 State of the Union Address as a "wonderful wife [and] magnificent mother"--and then autographs a copy of the speech as a gift for Monica Lewinsky. Toobin doesn't shy away from the story's tawdriest moments--like the Jones camp's suggestion that Clinton may have undergone surgery to remove the "distinguishing characteristics" on his penis that Jones claims to have seen...
...just said, 'Basta!' " explains the host, whose mix of tabloid breathiness and self-aggrandizement discerning readers will have already identified as belonging to Geraldo Rivera. Last week Rivera publicly vowed to clean up his eight-year-old daytime show, long criticized--or celebrated--as one of TV's tawdriest. How would this work in practice? "We're not going to go into the cycle where if you do hookers on your show, we'll do hookers and their daughter hookers. You can't win that way. You can't win by constantly trying to lowball...
...Turner and I come from different worlds," Schorr said. Comparing Turner with CBS president William S. Paley, he said Turner built his communications empire on the "cheapest and tawdriest kinds of entertainment," noting that Paley had begun with shows carrying Jack Benny and Bing Crosby...
...glowingly reported plans for the second annual Christmas parade, featuring "seven bands, 18 floats, clowns, entertainers, riders on horseback"; and the sounds and sights of building were everywhere. And all this good clean fun, all this civic enterprise, was taking place in what was. not too long ago, the tawdriest sin city left...