Word: sordidly
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...epoch. Clinton has thrived in a time when Americans are more interested in the color of money than the content of their leaders' character, and so we have allowed Slick Willie's solid economic stewardship to trump his betrayals of trust, the corruption of his cronies and his outrageously sordid personal life...
Today, everything is available, to everyone, at any time. Every deviant desire, dark fantasy and sordid dream can be realized, at a reasonable price. Forget "normalizing homosexuality"--something the Right has been worrying over since the advent of gay liberation. Today, the Internet and DirecTV are normalizing everything, from group sex to bestiality to darker things that decency forbids mentioning. And as for pedophilia--why, any erotic website worth its salt promises links to images of the "barely legal," "young teen sluts," and all the rest. Today, Nabokov's Humbert would need not be a tragic figure; instead, he could...
...Martin: People have compared it to the works on Ann Carlson, whom I?ve never read. And Martin Amis? "The Rachel Papers," which I didn?t read until after writing this, has a more sordid love affair, but there?s still a one-on-one ? how the interest grows and diminishes...
...seems clear that Horton deserved a much harsher sentence, though no one knows what confidential information Lopez considered in her chambers. Regardless, Gov. Cellucci's responses to this sordid affair have done little to help. His proposals would result in more injustice than they would prevent...
...Everyone wants to know if Clinton, who's scheduled to speak Monday night at the Staples Center, will pluck that monkey from Gore's back, accept full blame for the Lewinsky scandal, and raise the vice president above such sordid matters. Clinton did take a step in that direction this week, speaking to a church group; he explained that he was still picking up the pieces after what he'd done to his family, and that no reasonable person could possibly associate Gore with his own misstep...