Sordid, which I think is ... Sordid, yeah, that would have been great.
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You know this by now — all the sordid details.
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Nick Viall has a sordid history with The Bachelor franchise.
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It's a sordid story with plenty of blame all around.
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For the 67m who fought, it was a sordid hellscape.
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It's the latest episode in a long and sordid saga.
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Getting in through the side door was a sordid undertaking.
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I have a long and sordid history of attention whoring.
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It was a really sordid scenario, from our side certainly.
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"Race" confounds everyone and defines nothing but a sordid history.
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"I later learned about his more sordid history," Lander added.
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Given this sordid history, should MoMA not display this painting?
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But sordid details, undermined by snickers, aren't in themselves illuminating.
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The Starr report was almost pornographic in its sordid detail.
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At 9, the previously rejected bachelorettes reveal the sordid details.
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Much of their work is sordid; some is simply gross.
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Egerton's other Kingsman costar Pedro Pascal corroborates the sordid, silly tale.
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And Manuel's statement on police brutality carries on this sordid legacy.
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Later, in my own head, it's a tribute to sordid women.
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This is someone who had a long history of sordid misconduct.
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To be sure, Trump has a sordid history in this area.
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It didn't take long for all the sordid details to emerge.
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But, like everything else in this sordid telenovela, there's a twist.
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A brief recap of WWE's sordid part in all of this.
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FOCUSThe Secret, Sexy, Sometimes Sordid World of Fashion PhotographersBy Michael GrossIllustrated.
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor also brought America's sordid history with interracial marriage.
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You can judge this president by the sordid company he keeps.
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The backstage maneuvering of this confirmation was sordid — raw political skulduggery.
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What lessons for American democracy does Sri Lanka's sordid experience hold?
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A sordid underside of what the magazine calls The New Detroit.
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Just don't expect any sordid tales of ex-Disney star debauchery.
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Instead, it looks like a sordid bargain to let the president survive.
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Which brings us to the sordid, yet easily avoidable, Ivanka-Nordstrom incident.
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Ms. Croft's evolving appearance comes with a sordid and highly political history.
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The IBM petition, oddly enough, makes no mention of this sordid history.
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Earlier this year, the sordid chronology of Rock Springs received an update.
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The whole thing is a sordid stew of elite coddling and cowardice.
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Ali understood the sport's sordid history, particularly as it relates to race.
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"Thus it is, when rich people are sordid," Charlotte reflects, in silence.
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In "BOSS," Jay Z reminds us of his long, sordid history with Drake.
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Dr. Drew's not buying the sordid allegations related to the "Free Britney" movement.
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In Strange, five people share their own experiences with the sordid and mysterious.
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In Strange, five people share their own experiences with the sordid and mysterious.
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When the offers dwindle down to the cheap and/or sordid, say no.
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The claims are numerous and pretty sordid -- Leandro ran through them with TooFab.
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There's also a sordid history surrounding cannabis, sex, and misinformation in this country.
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"It's a sordid tale," says a source close to Arnold about the split.
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Native American representation in film and media has a sordid and ugly past.
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But your tax dollars are underwriting similar sordid abuses in Kandahar and Kabul.
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Once more, the director Oliver Stone turns to the sordid underbelly of governance.
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That sordid time is past, Albany's insiders could argue, and we've moved on.
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Trump era—another sordid, sensationalist body of lies sold to people on the
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But none of that excuses adding another sordid pardon to this checkered history.
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Diplomats, spies and reporters were occasionally compelled to leave over some sordid revelations.
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At odds with the painting's noisy, often sordid subject this mood was attained.
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This 'sordid' business of divvying us up by wealth Some background might help.
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The story is reminiscent of United Fruit's famously sordid past in Central America.
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What I have done is exposed the sordid racist history of the Democratic Party.
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Iraq has a long, sordid history of people using the environment as a weapon.
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On the other, he may be a sexual predator with a very sordid past.
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They also had proof of the sordid text messages clients exchanged with the girls.
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"I have a very, sordid past when it comes to online dating," she says.
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This summer, we were collectively swept away with sordid and entrancing stories about scammers.
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Yet next to none of this sordid history made it into CNN's puff piece.
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I'll spare you all the sordid details, but eventually, he became dependent on opiates.
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This shifted her practice from unraveling a sordid history, to weaving an auspicious future.
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And while she is an addict, she doesn't have much of a sordid past.
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The resurgence of support for conversion therapy is alarming, especially considering its sordid past.
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In the old days – circa 2000 – building your own business was considered somehow sordid.
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These are new pieces of a longer, sordid history of voter suppression in America.
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Of course, this being the internet, a troll was involved in this sordid mess.
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He has the feeling that he has walked in on something sordid or abnormal.
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So a reminder of its more sordid past is certainly not burnishing its reputation.
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DOJ's Office of Inspector General is currently tasked to sort this sordid mess out.
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The truth about power is often far more stupid and sordid than the fiction.
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And yet despite these sordid details, Eileen looks utterly enchanted by the movie business.
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Her story exposes the sordid mechanics of control and the individual cost of rebellion.
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Skinwalker Ranch has a long and sordid history well catalogued by researcher Ryan Skinner.
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But ugly wives, rumors, the whole sordid business—it's not about winning a bloc.
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I finally found a few vulgar things in the suburb, but nothing sordid yet.
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That detail is just a twist in the sordid saga of Kavanaugh's confirmation process.
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It was no longer just a slightly sordid cash-in, but something to be embraced.
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Though the story behind it is complex and sordid, the bill itself is pretty simple.
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"The media focuses on the sordid aspects of sex workers' lives," she told VICE Impact.
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Earlier this month, a Vanity Fair report revealed sordid tales of Silicon Valley sex parties.
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It's a sordid state of affairs, but one that Duca said absolutely won't stop her.
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If you didn't know it before, it's now clear: The Kelly tale is uniquely sordid.
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Let's take a peak into the sordid web of the KarJenner relationship histories to explain.
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Prosecutors say Harris sought sexual fulfillment outside his marriage and had a sordid online presence.
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And for the church, paying money is much preferred to revealing the whole sordid truth.
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It's a thrill seeing HBO tackle pop music's sordid underbelly with an unheard-of seriousness.
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Never quite a key figure, he popped up repeatedly, often in the most sordid circumstances.
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Her couchmates kept pushing for details — pretty sordid details, at that — but Richards wouldn't budge.
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One player in these sordid efforts at disinformation is former Obama Pentagon official Evelyn Farkas.
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The sordid saga was covered in length by Wired, New York Magazine, and other outlets.
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What I won't accept is any sordid little fix which is alien to our traditions.
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It was a sad and sordid and at times distracting business, but the system worked.
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" Supposedly, he had died "under sordid circumstances in 2010, buried in debt, detested, insulted, alone.
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That larger existential question is supposed to elevate the sordid details of what comes next.
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"This is not some sordid sex story; this a story of being trafficked," she said.
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Unless winter comes up with some sordid revelation about spring, we are in the clear.
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He relates the often sordid tales of addiction and neglect with radical love and honesty.
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While the case has not received a lot of mainstream media attention, the details are sordid .
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Maybe Pai will be implicated in a sordid scheme to flood the zone with fake comments.
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Some of the tales are sordid, while others are clearly the result of inexperience and hubris.
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On Thursday, she said voters "occasionally" ask her about the more sordid aspects of the campaign.
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A well-known but sordid tech company paints a picture of revolutionizing a city's economic base.
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The artist's collection of sordid figures is a valediction on the sputtering wheels of American democracy.
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There is also a long and sordid history of companies resisting this level of public transparency.
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There are indications this Chinese institution has been engaging in this sordid activity in other locations.
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The treatment of female athletes, and intersex women in particular, has a long and sordid history.
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Pussygate Just when Americans thought that the campaign season could not get more sordid, it did.
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That sordid tale, whose protagonist lived new adventures every day, was my only source of entertainment.
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The politics of immigration, now at a fever pitch in Washington, has a long sordid history.
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Kavanaugh says he's appalled that sordid details of one's past are being used to destroy reputation.
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It's a sordid life Lucy pursues in Los Angeles, but she is the one pursuing it.
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There are vivid descriptions of the sordid divorce mills, and other institutions which exploit broken lives.
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BRIAN TYREE HENRY When you put it that way… STERLING K. BROWN It sounds really sordid.
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In an Instagram post, the SpaceX chief described the "sordid history" of orbital rocket Falcon 9.
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And who can forget the Starr report that seemed to delight in detailing the sordid affair.
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The deeper he digs into the sordid tale, the more it threatens his mental well-being.
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There is a newspaper, soda, and a dark, sordid history associated with this new-ish world.
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I'll let my colleague David Roberts tell the sordid tale: Patriot Coal filed for bankruptcy in 2012.
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On its face, it also jibes with the rest of the sordid Russian interference in the election.
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Uber is expecting to submit its official side of the sordid sage in court later next month.
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"La Tête d'Un Homme" is a superbly sordid psychological thriller with intimations of Dostoyevsky and Fritz Lang.
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Whoever they are, the most sordid, unasked-for crushes involve someone you can't imagine avoiding or dating.
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Seeking the American presidency can be an inspiring, sordid and tedious business, all in the same day.
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The Inventor serves primarily as an origin story for Holmes, but this sordid tale is still developing.
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Despite being one of the longest running businesses in Vancouver, it remains a hidden, albeit sordid, gem.
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He seemed to delight in excoriating those in attendance, bringing up their sordid pasts and personal travails.
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The ensuing investigation plunges a curmudgeonly detective and a young semiologist into the French intelligentsia's sordid affairs.
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Eventually, the whole sordid truth of what was really happening during filming of Pretty Wild came out.
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What is described is so painful, sordid, and hopeless that it is hard to read at times.
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The Najib administration is desperate to control what is said about these sordid scandals and suspected wrongdoings.
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The scandal that engulfed the Department of Veterans Affairs these past few weeks was sordid and sad.
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On the other side was a Democrat whose family had spawned a cottage industry of sordid tales.
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The Weeknd is well aware of the contrast between his sordid subject matter and his mainstream popularity.
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Katie Arrington ran ads attacking Sanford as a "Washington insider" and heavily hinted at Sanford's sordid history.
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The result is as straightforward an account of the sordid tedium of gang life as exists anywhere.
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Once Rossman's piece went public, the entire Gabler enterprise was cast into the sordid shadow of greed.
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The real question now is how this whole sordid affair will play out in the midterm elections.
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But the Chinese Communist Party is not alone in having discovered a sordid side to Bytedance's platforms.
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Congo has a sordid history of government-led atrocities, including gang rapes and the slaughtering of civilians.
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Their own governor was enveloped in a crisis that seemed to grow more sordid by the week.
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Dimitrov, like Marty, was no sordid careerist, scrambling to power over the dead bodies of innocent people.
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Chicken, specifically the fried variety, has always had a bit of a sordid history in American culture.
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The whole affair is tawdry and sordid, in so many ways below the dignity of the presidency.
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Soon all manner of sordid news was pouring out: bribes, kickbacks, drinking on the bench, love affairs.
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There's even a long, sordid examination of the sex lives of seemingly everybody involved in the story.
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Mel B just filed legal docs, obtained by TMZ, in which she lays out the sordid scenario.
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But the piece isn't sordid or gratuitous; instead, it boldly proclaims and subverts taboo with punk flair.
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The internal machinations that resulted in Truman's selection are a sordid tale with which few Americans are familiar.
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Music executive Benny Medina has been accused of attempting to rape Sordid Lives: The Series actor Jason Dottley.
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Soon they'd see that someone else had committed the litany of sordid sex crimes she'd been accused of.
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What Is "The Satisfaction Factor" & Why Does It Matter So MuchThe Secret, Sordid History Of The Graham Cracker
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As a newspaper editor in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, he once denounced "homosexuals and their sordid behaviour".
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The passenger who was savagely removed from United flight 3411 is a medical doctor with a sordid history.
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Clinton will reach the White House only if she survives one more crucible of sordid and scandalous accusations.
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They gambled that, by weaponizing sordid gossip, they could simply bully their way past the presumption of innocence.
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He also may have used the power of his PUBLIC office to cover up the whole sordid matter.
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His report was released without any advance briefings for Clinton's lawyers, and it left no sordid detail out.
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But time was a-wasting, so Mummy Pelham, after blanching a little at Edith's "sordid revelations," quickly rallied.
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If there is one thing to take away from this election, it's that democracy is a sordid affair.
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So what must the FBI do to move on from the sordid era of Comey-McCabe-Strzok-Page?
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"He has consistently advanced his own sordid desires and fixations at the expense of others," the letter read.
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But he is not honoring Sergeant Johnson's sacrifice by insisting on falsehoods and stretching out this sordid spectacle.
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In an Instagram post Thursday, the SpaceX chief executive described the "sordid history" of orbital rocket Falcon 9.
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The Bitcoin Cash power struggle (read the sordid details here) and the uncertainty it brings, was a factor.
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On the Greek islands, where refugees continue to arrive from Turkey, the camps are sordid and dangerously overcrowded.
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But instead of a gregarious celebration or some sordid, passionate sexual chemistry, things got off to a choppy start.
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So that's sort of the Reader's Digest version of a pretty sordid and terrible last year of our lives.
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She later files a complaint, exposing Dr. Mott's sordid history of sexually abusing the women under his medical care.
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The sales pitch said art has a wonderful, intangible value — that it is above the whole sordid commercial world.
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It's an even more sordid story that Épinal-based attorney Pierre-André Babel was confronted with, back in 2009.
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With the fall of the Berlin Wall, that sordid bubble burst and much of the countercultural spirit drained away.
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And the Trump campaign has a long, sordid history of stiffing cities that have tried to recoup security costs.
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Two Guns, which is in Coconino County, is a ghost town with a long and sordid history including murder.
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Avnet never makes their flirtation and obvious lust for each other sordid or designed to titillate male audience members.
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Already, Twitch has come in for a fair share of criticism for its handling of the whole sordid business.
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In the affidavit, Nunberg said the argument was part of a "sordid and apparently illicit affair" between the two.
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Game of Thrones is pulpy and sordid, a story of increasingly absurd events happening to larger-than-life characters.
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How could they not, what with the whirlwind and weirdly sordid history they've had in their short, spinny lives?
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It's as sordid as it is classy; part art gallery, part museum, part seedy backwater nightclub, part fandom city.
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Despite the sordid legacy of the Aum Shinrikyo, the group continues to exist, albeit in a nominally different form.
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That's how to help bring this sordid chapter in our nation's history to a swift and just close. Rep.
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For now, these issues remain obscured by Trump's fondness for sideshows and his sordid promotion of the family business.
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The future was, for better or worse, shameless geekdom, endless comic book reboots, and tasteful-to-sordid cosplay conventions.
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As this drama unfolds, it's becoming clear that, for all its sordid details, it isn't really a sex scandal.
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Knife crime on the rise in Britain, a new strategy at Facebook and the sordid market for Hitler paintings.
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On opening night of the 2009-10 season, the Met introduced a grim, sordid new production by Luc Bondy.
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Those deals largely went away after Woods's sordid 2009, but if the halo effect returns, so will the sponsorships.
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Their coach, Bill O'Brien, has a sordid history of changing quarterbacks — Brian Hoyer, Ryan Mallett, Brock Osweiler, et al.
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For all their distasteful ways, though, the tanker men say they're not the biggest villains in this sordid saga.
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There is nothing to justify removing Trump from office even in the probably sordid Mueller process that is underway.
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The narrative then turns to the accusations of sexual abuse that unmasked the sordid man behind the wellness phenomenon.
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James Joseph Bulger Jr.'s killing brought to an end one of the more sordid chapters in his city's history.
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Andrea runs a sordid gantlet of sexual violations before taking desperate charge of her life, yet she remains ferociously innocent.
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One such designer with a more sordid history is Ludwig Hohlwein, who created early poster work for Audi and Mercedes.
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Since then, Petraeus resigned from the CIA in a sordid controversy that centered on an extramarital affair with his biographer.
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Why he decided to weave this sordid tale instead of just keeping the whole thing to himself, we'll never know.
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Check out the clip ... Mally simply doesn't buy the argument XXXTentacion's musical legacy should suffer because of his sordid past.
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For anyone to suggest that it is out of sordid motives of statistics or financial gain is outrageous and insulting.
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Suddenly, the people mistreating them were the bad guys, even if the androids could be rebooted after each sordid encounter.
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David Brooks I'm beginning to think this whole sordid campaign is being blown along by an acrid gust of distrust.
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The investigation of Whitewater devolved into a sordid, messy fight over Clinton's inability to come clean on his sex life.
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Many are living in a distressing limbo in sordid refugee camps on the mainland and on Greek islands near Turkey.
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If Obama refused to release his tax returns, Republican Party leadership would have accused him of hiding sordid business dealings.
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Should it renumber the rooms, or even the floor, to disguise the place's sordid history and deter the morbidly curious?
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The tale — from charged studio visits to nasty exchanges at the Cedar Bar — has its own sad, sordid, unsurprising truth.
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Stripping citizenship from dissenters and other purported enemies of the state has a long and sordid history around the world.
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We have traded heaven, Albright seems to say, for a sordid gaudiness that is nothing but a handful of dust.
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"He has consistently advanced his own sordid desires and fixations over the well-being of others," prosecutors wrote of Weinstein.
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In 2017, Business Insider visited the island, learned about its sordid history, and photographed the dilapidated state of its buildings.
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" Ms. Ross responded with a long letter to the magazine calling Mr. Howe's remarks "irresponsible, rather sordid and absolutely wrong.
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In fact, New York state has a long and sordid history of choosing their investment managers based solely on politics.
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Page has a rather sordid and suspicious history in dealings with the Russians that is entirely separate from this dossier.
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Bezos wrote in the essay that he refused this extortion attempt -- and went public with the whole sordid tale instead.
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The sordid details of his crimes revealed during the trial damaged his image as a charitable folk hero even more.
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The Trump administration's actions — and its personnel — recall the long and sordid history of United States intervention in Latin America.
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Yet city streets are still dirty, she points out, while subways are rat-infested and prisoners live in sordid conditions.
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There are far more interesting paths a vibrant movement could have charted through this sordid election than they have chosen.
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Let&aposs take a moment to recall the sordid 15-year history of Democratic miscalculations that brought them to this point.
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Facebook's culpability in the sordid affair was painstakingly brought to light in story after story published over the last 12 months.
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While Blippi's sordid past as the "Harlem Shake Poop" guy might be eyebrow-raising, parents said it's not a deal breaker.
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Some other intimidating, sordid fuckfest that's probably best left to more extroverted, hyper-qualified sex-havers than the likes of you?
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Exquisitely strange and profoundly commonplace, his intense, hermetic works come down to us like fragments of heaven in a sordid world.
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And when they're done watching your date flame out, some log onto Reddit and write every sordid and hilarious detail down.
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A particularly sordid example is the slew of fake accounts which promise free Ethereum while impersonating Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin.
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Another study that came out last year confirms men and women have different attitudes when confronted with a partner's sordid past.
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But Ares implies something a bit more sordid: that Zeus had a relationship with her mother, Hippolyta, and created a child.
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All the hand-wringing over lofty matters of conscience and free speech and faith paper over something simpler and more sordid.
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" An earlier version of this article misstated the publication date of "Focus: The Secret, Sexy, Sometimes Sordid World of Fashion Photographers.
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Uber has a sordid history around the issue when it comes to both its corporate employees and its drivers and riders.
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But despite the sordid history, both YouTubers have furthered the sentiment that this time the boxing bout is a professional match.
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He lays out the sordid details of the Heth affair, then maintains that he was shocked to learn her true age.
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The documentary series "Tiger King" gets into the whole sordid affair, which gets stranger and more twisted the deeper it goes.
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And now, many Britons see in Mr. Trump a reflection of the Brexit phenomenon, albeit a more orange and sordid one.
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Chairman Lee has his own sordid history of convictions and pardons (yes, plural) as head of South Korea's most famous chaebol.
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Opinion Columnist In "The Handmaid's Tale," Margaret Atwood's ever-resonant tale of misogynist dystopia, Christian fascism has a sordid, perverse underbelly.
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But the Xbox hacking scene had turned sordid over time, its ethical norms corroded by the allure of money, thrills, and status.
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But the higher-ups allegedly dragged their feet, and the supposed cover-up has only widened the sordid scandal has since expanded.
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San Francisco, California (CNN)There's more fallout from a sordid sex scandal that has ensnared several police departments in California's Bay Area.
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They say their faith is renewed in mankind -- that it's a nice break from sordid headlines and the hotly contested political season.
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Lee Israel's wit is barbed and disarming, designed to keep her isolated in that sordid one-bedroom Manhattan apartment she calls home.
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Also not contested by the West Hollywood City Council is Charlie Sheen, who has a long, sordid history of violence against women .
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The panels have heard gripping witness accounts of all things from death squads and sordid affairs to corruption, murder and sex tapes.
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"These killings in Orlando were motivated by the most sordid homophobia," said Jean Wyllys, an openly gay congressman from Rio de Janeiro.
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Thus, in the president's words, Mueller confirmed Trump's view that the whole sordid mess was little more than a hunt for witches.
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Robert Carsen's version of "Der Rosenkavalier," both grand and sordid in its vision of fin-de-siècle society, proved popular last season.
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The setting may be East Texas but we're essentially in Elmore Leonard country, where sordid crime, snappy dialogue and regional atmosphere meet.
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She's forced to reveal the sordid details of Frank Gather's demise, and furthermore, why Jamal needs to stay away from Frank's spawn.
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To me, Clinton's serenity in the face of some pretty sordid claims about her husband was impressive, but not all that surprising.
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"Last time I talked to you ended in a sordid fashion," he wrote in the message, which was reviewed by The Times.
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The movie reduces queer identity to a series of promiscuous sexual encounters, which it consistently frames as sordid, shameful, illicit, and corrupting.
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In one sordid chain of events, Mr. Gantz's top strategist unburdened himself to a rabbi and, in the process, denigrated his client.
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The actual deed is reported with such lightly amused aplomb that what could come over as sordid seems like a harmless diversion.
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He's ashamed that he doesn't have the guts to call out Trump for the sordid squeeze the president is putting on him.
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Far from becoming Mr. Trump's warriors, staff members like Colonel Vindman became witnesses against the president, exposing the sordid breakdown to Congress.
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But "Trump and His Generals" raises, even if it does not address deeply, some important questions about the outlandish and sordid tale.
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But your editorial fails to make any reference to who may be the primary actor in this sordid little episode — President Trump.
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A Florida federal judge has deemed the failure to tell Epstein's victims anything about the whole sordid deal a violation of federal law.
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But one of its models, the FN Five-seven, a semi-automatic pistol utilizing a 5.7-mm round, has a particularly sordid history.
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Outside of the news of our decision to part ways, there is nothing provocative, alluring, or sordid about the dissolution of our marriage.
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The show also gives updates on the lives of the three people involved in one of the most sordid scandals of the '90s.
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To the folks back home, and pretty much everywhere else, Thailand is beaches, bars and sordid bunk-ups with underage bargirls and ladyboys.
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Bruce Ohr&aposs new connection to this whole sordid affair is only made worse when you consider the connection of his wife Nellie.
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In a neighbor's latrine across the street, the sordid grey goo almost reaches the pit's surface, a clear menace come the next storm.
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But time travel is a slippery and often problematic storytelling device, with a sordid history of irreparably destabilizing otherwise great movies and series.
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The sordid details he provided only further confirm a history of pervasive cheating among Russian teams, involving athletes, coaches, doctors and government officials.
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And after the sordid Helsinki spectacle and the attacks against NATO allies, Republican leaders have decided now to criticize the President -- a bit.
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The evidence clearly demonstrates that Cohen used shell corporations and the Trump Organization to hide the president's role in the whole sordid matter.
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None of this means that Mueller wants to steer his investigation into the sordid affairs of a porn star or a Playboy bunny.
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But Catherine's story, even with its Freudian ticks and ultimately normative views of relationships, succeeded as the sordid telenovela it aimed to be.
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Of course Maier was wary about sharing her personal details, Bannos reasons: Who would hire a nanny with such a sordid family life?
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If it wasn't already clear, the general tone of this Snow White is seedy and sordid — a far cry from cheery animated dwarves.
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By 2000, Detective Paz was on the Brooklyn Vice Squad, where he learned the inner workings of street crime at its most sordid.
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Certainly you've been hearing about "The Deuce," David Simon's new HBO drama about the Times Square sex-work industry during the sordid 1970s.
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But the sordid details of the Louisville scandal apparently made an impression on the N.C.A.A.'s infractions committee, which handed down Thursday's sanctions.
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The book deftly reflects this sense of depletion and stasis; it is forthright about its own clichés, leaning hard into their sordid edges.
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"This sordid little episode badly exposes Russia conspiracy nutters and chancer hacks, who have been taken seriously for too long," the editorial says.
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The locations became characters in "Twin Peaks," harboring sordid secrets of drugs, prostitution and dark supernatural forces in the wake of Laura Palmer's murder.
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This lengthy, sordid affair not only tainted the Maori team, but also underlined the second-class status of Maori in New Zealand's rugby hierarchy.
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"This last-ditch move of desperation is going to expose all of the sordid dealings of the California Planned Parenthood affiliates," the group said.
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The MTV operator warned weary investors on Friday that revenue and profit will fall short of expectations as a sordid boardroom battle plays out.
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Why would I want to tell the world my most sordid thoughts: that sometimes I obsess over everything from shitting myself to poisoning toddlers?
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In the monograph, Martin tells the writer Tom Patterson the sordid details of his life story and how he came to be St. EOM.
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Usually, as in the case of Delvey and Bannigan, we rely on intrepid reporters and police work to piece together the story's sordid details.
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The whole exchange is painful, from the bemused looks of those on-stage, to the audience rumbling as this whole sordid affair plays out.
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Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's court filing tells a sordid tale of influence-peddling on behalf of Yanukovych, Vladimir Putin's man in Kiev.
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I go through popular kid tryouts and fail, but I hear a lot of sordid stuff in my weeks hanging with the mean girls.
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He was also working on a comeback concert series, This Is It. As the news cycles churned, the sordid details of Jackson's death emerged.
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Though the analogy to Blackwater is hardly perfect, we do have a recent and sordid history of private security contractors advancing sensitive government responsibilities.
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By the way ... Farrow's name might sound familiar -- his reporting of Harvey Weinstein's alleged sordid history of sexual assault won him a Pulitzer Prize.
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The businessman also accused Machado of starring in a "sex tape," urging voters to "check out" the footage as proof of her sordid background.
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To back up, Manafort has long been well-known as perhaps the most shameless player of the sordid international lobbying game that powers Washington.
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In his travel memoir "The Gentleman in the Parlor," he reviled the city's "dense traffic," its "ceaseless din," its "insipid" cuisine and "sordid" houses.
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Let not that sordid spectacle dissuade you of his talents and collection of big time wins against Anderson Silva, Alistair Overeem and Badr Hari.
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The question raised by Taylor's book is this: Can a revolution conceived mainly as sordid, racist and divisive be the inspiration for a nation?
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This sordid episode is only outdone by Holbrooke's seduction of the wife of his best friend, Anthony Lake, which Packer relates in unstinting detail.
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Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd has responded to an explosive Forbes report detailing a sexist, sordid culture at the dating app's parent company Badoo.
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It's because Manafort is such a gilded, sordid reminder of the company that Trump keeps and of how he sees and navigates the world.
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One of those is Akira Kurosawa's grim and deceptive classic, which tells the sordid story of a rape and murder from four contradictory perspectives.
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It probably shouldn't be as fun to watch as it is, but Big Little Lies has always been pretty gleeful about its sordid affairs.
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The series embraces every sordid, horny detail of Chris's desire, staring viewers directly (and often literally) in the face and daring us to blink.
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Twilight has fallen on the venerable American trickster, who in our Trumpian afterworld of alternative facts has come to seem more sordid than subversive.
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She was apparently removed because she was somehow resisting Giuliani's efforts to enlist the Ukraine government in Trump's sordid effort to take down Biden.
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These involve financial ties with Moscow, since Trump refuses to release his tax statements, or the kind of sordid blackmail alleged in the dossier.
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And the website regularly brings up more sordid allegations from Clinton's past, including former President Bill Clinton's affair and the rape allegations against him.
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"I don't know how I will be able to make amends to the young person who I dragged into my sordid mess," he said.
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She soon realizes that things aren't quite as they seem when another apartment sitter disappears and she begins to investigate the building's sordid history.
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America, of course, has a long, sordid history of downzoning to keep poor and racially diverse populations out of more prosperous, predominantly white neighborhoods.
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Sanders pointed to the risks associated with the radioactive waste nuclear energy leaves behind, which has a particularly sordid history contaminating Native American lands.
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Hustlers isn't a fatuous tale of empowerment; it's also not ignorant of the sisterhood its characters find in the midst of their sordid deeds.
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In what is essentially the tale of a sordid road trip, Nabokov has Humbert traveling the country in possession of his illicit love interest.
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Some moved away because of the sordid sights, said Syderia Asberry-Chresfield, a longtime resident and advocate in the gentrifying neighborhood around the park.
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In a past life it was a reading library created to improve the Blackscroft district of the city, which was considered by some as 'sordid'.
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Viewers of After Fire may feel they want to know this information, partially because the media has primed us to expect to hear sordid details.
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Not that he's a bigot, not that he's using the politics of hate, not that he's falling in line with a sordid history of racism.
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Simply install the Renter Be Aware app and your Chrome browser becomes a window into the sordid past of that suspiciously affordable two-bedroom walkup.
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Now, it's little more than one of thousands of sordid flash games you'd likely stumble upon with a quick Google search (I wouldn't suggest it).
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I return from his verité to tell you this truth: Lemoin turns out to be a vapid, hollow, despicable, sordid, corrupt, monumentally boneheaded self-admirer.
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He had a particular affinity with Greece, another country where the landscape contains both traces of ancient mysteries and the detritus of sordid modern arguments.
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Soon enough, Archie has to listen to Cheryl discuss his sordid past with Ms. Grundy thanks to the ever-annoying Dilton revealing some key information.
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Ostensibly, it tells the story of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, but even if you know that sordid tale already, the film is worth a look.
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There is a sordid history in the U.S. of false accusations and criminal convictions in sexual abuse cases based on "implanted" memories in vulnerable individuals.
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From the Vault The history of the Morris-Jumel Mansion is as complicated and sordid as you would expect of the oldest home in Manhattan.
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All civil libertarians should want the truth about this sordid episode — and Mueller's possible role — regardless of its impact, if any, on the Trump investigation.
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The spotlight on these allegations has been deeply worrisome to parents, who describe struggling to keep their young children from listening to the sordid details.
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"Jane Eyre" was an "immoral," even a "dangerous" book, and whoever was behind the authorial pseudonym "Currer Bell" was in possession of a sordid mind.
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His wife Narcy Novack, a former stripper, becomes the key to a sordid case of not one, but two gruesome murders in the Novack family.
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Some of us are apparently even, like Mr. Stein, canny enough to see the shadow of the death camps falling across the whole sordid spectacle.
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No description of the video can really do it justice; to truly understand the sordid tale of "Johny Johny," you'll have to watch for yourself.
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Mr. Bondy's "Tosca" was unsuccessful because it was messily conceptualized and gratuitously sordid, not because a gritty, dark take on this work is an impossibility.
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Similarly, an entire episode is devoted to a sordid murder case involving Carole Baskin that is then virtually abandoned for the rest of the series.
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And the would-be beauty queen's mother finds herself, after three husbands, in a sordid hookup with a driver's ed teacher at a sleazy motel.
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Towne found himself embroiled in sordid divorce proceedings; Evans was dogged by drug and financial scandals; Nicholson took too many roles just for the money.
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The Frick Collection, an internationally recognized art museum located across the street, is reportedly considering purchasing the sordid mansion as part of an expansion project.
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The decision punctuated a sordid drama that exploded last year, prompting renewed scrutiny of his 2015 divorce from Dianne Bentley, his wife of 50 years.
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"This is not some sordid sex story, this is a story of being trafficked, this is a story of abuse," she said in the interview.
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Now, as senators consider Mr. Acosta's nomination for a cabinet position, the sordid details of Mr. Epstein's case are set to receive another public airing.
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That summer, he had weathered l'affaire Benalla—a sordid and still unsettled scandal involving his personal bodyguard—but, for the first time, he looked racked.
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I've never actually been in the place, and whenever I look through its windows, it seems to have that sordid, saddened air of a DMV.
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And it's a tale so suspect and sordid that President Trump and his associates felt the need to lie to hide it from law enforcement.
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But Jeffrey's curiosity turns to voyeuristic obsession, as he gets himself embroiled in the sordid story of Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini), a fragile nightclub singer.
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Coronel appeared visibly anxious during the interview when she discussed his previous arrests, his sordid reputation, and his relationship with Mexican telenovela star, Kate del Castillo.
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And the younger man had a sordid past, and was known for being violent, and the men got into a lot of rows in the lighthouse.
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Adelaide's life unfolds in the sordid surroundings of Britannia Mews as a consequence; she pursues the hapless drawing teacher, despite his attempts to warn her off.
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That sordid data is suspected to have been used by Cambridge Analytica to support the Trump and Brexit campaigns, which employed Custom Audiences to reach voters.
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From the site:There is a long sordid history of the telecom industry funding shady "astroturf" organizations to poison the political process and do their dirty work.
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From her murky, drug-hazed account of her American tour, a sordid picture emerges of exploitation and maltreatment, perpetrated by leering roadies and ignored by Bernard.
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An early pornographer makes an appearance, and proves to be even more sordid than he seems; the chief of police turns out to be a monster.
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Obviously it's as irreverant and sordid as the title suggests, but somewhere in between there are stoned flecks of Weezer riffs and the slurriness of Fidlar.
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When Trust follows Brendan Fraser, it finally feels slightly dangerous in the way it clearly wants to, but not because he's doing anything sordid or debauched.
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Just when he thought it was safe to go back into the water, now return all the allegations of his sordid and inexcusable past sexual sins.
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Mr. Stone acknowledged that Mr. Brock's operation had significantly more resources, but he said the traditional tactic of dismissing these accusations as sordid rumors could backfire.
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What Barr said was inexcusably horrific, both in its own right and in light of America's sordid history of slavery, Jim Crow and other codified racism.
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The original Trainspotting tracked the sordid and tragi-comic side of Scottish street life via the friends' drug-addled criminal activity set to a pulsating soundtrack.
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J, a Southern California teenager, moves in with his estranged grandmother Janine (Ellen Barkin), known as Smurf, and is drawn into a sordid world of crime.
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If that sounds saccharine, Take Care of My Cat offers sordid realism, chronicling the friendship of five women who, after graduating, drift apart amid economic anxieties.
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As for sport, Russia's state-organized cheating is, happily, an exception, not the norm, and let's hope that the sordid boxing mess is quickly sorted out.
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Had Miss Chu, watching the falling dusk through the narrow window near the ceiling, been reliving the sordid pain another person had inflicted on her body?
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Thomas Farr has been involved in the sordid practice of voter suppression for decades and never should have been nominated, let alone confirmed to the bench.
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Festivals, by their very nature, are hedonistic affairs, chances to slide out of life's rigor and rules into a gloopy pool of sweaty, stinking, sordid debauchery.
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"It has a long and sordid history in psychology, especially pop psychology," said Scott O. Lilienfeld, a professor of psychology at Emory College, in an email.
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She smacked down the notion that her husband should have resigned over the whole sordid mess — "Absolutely not" — or that it constituted an abuse of power.
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Orthodox Jews already face an uphill battle in the modern world, they say, and drawing attention to these sordid stories makes that hill that much steeper.
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Dan Scott is a type of evil that is so calculated, so sordid, so hilarious that it simply couldn't be possible in any dimension of reality.
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The closest we get to a hero in the sordid report — as opposed to Kenneth Starr's lurid report — is the former White House counsel Don McGahn.
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"Waldo, you've got the filthiest mind of anyone I've met," says Zee, who nevertheless supplies him with sordid stories of Eddie's past involving sodomy and rape.
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The dark, stylish film exposed the sordid, symbiotic nature of society's different classes, and gave audiences one helluva thrill from the first scene to the last.
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Peter's mom, whom I was close to, was upset I called Peter my "lover," a epithet for her generation that smelled of a sordid secret affair.
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"To say we have a long and sordid history of corruption in this state would be understating it," said New Jersey's attorney general, Gurbir S. Grewal.
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The show's central mystery was sordid and addictive: Did the wealthy, weird Durst kill three people (including his wife), no people, or some other configuration thereof?
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As more information about Cruz emerges, it is becoming clear he had a sordid history of espousing racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic views on social media.
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Lousy with stereotypes and filthy language, the sordid "Pimp" wraps 21st-century blaxploitation in a lesbian love story as unconvincing as every other relationship on screen.
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If the media ever begin investigating the sordid world of Father McCarrick, it will uncover clandestine networks of sex, money and power honeycombing the church's hierarchy.
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Further, there is a sordid history of restaurant owners who steal tips, and of settlements in which they have agreed to repay workers millions of dollars.
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Any presidential election campaign by Ms. Nazarbayeva would likely revive that chapter, which opened a window on nepotism, corruption and other sordid practices within Kazakhstan's elite.
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And just like Mindhunter, this story is as true-to-life as they come — the details are so sordid, so nauseating, that it could only be true.
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It's great news no one was seriously hurt, considering the long and sordid history of concert disasters, but this is another reminder pyrotechnics can be very dangerous.
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I was in the middle of raising money to launch a startup, and I didn't want to be swept into the painful unearthing of a sordid story.
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It also happens to be a phrase with a long, sordid backstory in US politics — and one that Donald Trump has somewhat strangely adopted during his campaign.
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And the response of almost every other category of voter to his political freak show, of which the tape was merely the latest sordid act, is revulsion.
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Read these stories next: Eating Disorders Are Rare — Disordered Eating Is Common Don't Fall For These 12 Eating Myths The Secret, Sordid History Of The Graham Cracker
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Liz does the former and tells Christen the whole sordid story of her and Nick and the time they had sex at a mutual friend's wedding (+10).
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As if certain words were so suspect — sordid — as to require "handling" by tweezers or being pinched between fingertips, the way one might hold a (soiled) tissue.
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Local news descends on the town, shining a light onto a sordid and violent case that had nevertheless been forgotten as it gave way to fresher news.
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It bears mentioning, too, that as the Dreyfus Affair (1894–1906) unfurled in waves of sordid, anti-semitism, Nordau, like many European Jews, became a fervent Zionist.
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But this sad, sordid little scene is a reminder that he sometimes tries to not be the worst he can be, and he is capable of compassion.
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His writing is part of an op-ed series curated by #WeBuiltThis in which Black millennial contributors explore the sordid relationship between state violence and elected politicians.
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The effort pits those who see the symbols as tributes to Southern heritage against others who regard them as a glorification of a sordid history of racism.
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The tabloids offer a sordid vision of society, where the mainstream image of celebrities elides their secretly miserable lives (whether because of addiction, aging, infidelity, or bankruptcy).
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This sordid process led to an ever-expanding tangle of state-funded scandal, drama, and duplicity, culminating in Bill's December 1998 impeachment by the House of Representatives.
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"Review (from Gamespot): "The premise of the game is gimmicky, but after its sordid skin is peeled away, a true gem of a 3D platformer is revealed.
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The sordid business then descended into farrago of charges and counter-charges between Cohen and Daniels's lawyer, and hints that Daniels has lascivious information about Trump, including
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The damage would likely have been indirect (some famous actors would've avoided being associated with someone with such a sordid reputation) but it would have been real.
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He is leaving behind a police force with "a sordid human rights record", according to Carlos Conde, a researcher for the New York based Human Rights Watch.
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This song introduces us to that second, sordid version that we see so often in pop culture; that of a city swimming with possibilities and nocturnal secrets.
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Whether you believe her or not, her bizarre, sordid story offers real clues to the chain connecting Trump's circle to the highest level of the Russian government.
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They said they had the right to question the executives on the Buffalo Billion to show they had been involved in sordid dealings with Mr. Howe before.
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The daughter of alcoholics, she grew up in an often violent home, and was schooled from a very early age in the keeping of sordid family secrets.
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Yes, that was the entertainment business, always sordid and permissive — but the same pattern showed up all over, from posh prep schools to the Roman Catholic Church.
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In the room with Lavinia and Orin, we experience at close range an oppressive onslaught of sordid secrets, and the fusty heaviness of the play takes over.
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Then get the sordid back story by streaming "THE GIRL" (2012), on HBO, with Toby Jones as an obsessed Hitchcock and Sienna Miller as his leading lady.
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On Monday, The New York Times published a damning report detailing Fashion Nova's sordid factory conditions, where workers produce clothing for as little as $4.66 an hour.
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Targeted is competing directly with Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America by Christopher Wylie for this year's best memoir on the sordid story.
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The last time Papa was interview on "Mad Money" in May 2016, the drugmaker's stock had dropped 85 percent in the past year on the sordid revelations.
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One way to give this sordid tale a happy ending would be for Icarus, having flown too close to the sun, to finally face judgment and accountability.
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Unfortunately, between Hippocrates' time and present day, there has been a long, sordid history of sexist and problematic research when it comes to that time of the month.
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This sordid episode was not dwelled upon during Wray&aposs confirmation hearings, at the end of which he was confirmed to a 10-year term running the FBI.
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Archie, going to jail, might be able to finally expose Hiram's prison plans and the sordid deals he has with Penny, the Ghoulies, the Blossoms, and Sheriff Minetta.
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" Naturally, it was internet tabloids like the New York Post and TMZ and a local newspaper in Kentucky, the Courier-Journal, that first dredged up Dao's "sordid history.
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" Pressed again on Trump pointing to her husband's impeachment as evidence that the Clintons have a sordid past, Clinton responded: "He can say whatever he wants to say.
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It's not uncommon for presidential campaigns to undergo full-scale investigations into the private lives of their hopefuls, in hopes of avoiding any embarrassing indiscretions or sordid details.
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Sansa Stark has seen her fair share of chaos and brutality as she maneuvered her way through the sordid world of Westeros since she was a young adult.
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Had Hillary Clinton been looking for an easy hit, she could have hammered Donald Trump for his alleged mafia ties, his business failures, or his sordid personal history.
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Dating-app tycoon Andrey Andreev has announced he's launching an independent investigation into his company Badoo after a Forbes report described a sordid, sexist culture at the company.
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I'm glad I did; I discovered an amazing novel, sordid and ruthless, with only a tiny portion of it exploited for the screen version (which I still love).
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He still gets to tell his story, but instead of mentioning Fitz and West Angola, he gives America the tale of a sordid affair between himself and Mellie.
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These six books have either one twist or no twist at all; they all reveal at least five sordid things; and none of them have truly happy endings.
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The Duchess was on hand to open the Magic Garden playground on the palace grounds, where Henry VIII used to joust (and, no doubt, do other sordid things).
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None of this sordid backstory is mentioned in the T Magazine emails, which are mostly limited to musings on guinea pigs and melancholy of a specifically Jewish nature.
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North Korea has criticized Washington's decision to ban U.S. passport holders from visiting the North, with state media describing it as a "sordid" attempt to limit human exchanges.
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She began her Friday with the barrage of Twitter messages, responding to Mr. Trump's own overnight fusillade, during which he insinuated that Ms. Machado had a sordid past.
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The sordid details of the man's rise and fall, the speculation over what went wrong, the debate over justice — all that was left behind for others to assess.
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MIAMI — The sordid case against Jeffrey E. Epstein, who was accused of paying dozens of underage girls for sexual massages in Florida, appeared to end a decade ago.
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The result was "Am Königsweg" ("On the Royal Road"), a lengthy monologue about a tacky autocrat whose sordid path to leadership is narrated by a blind female seer.
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The artist duo is most famous for their abject and sordid representations of American life, elaborate installations and assemblage sculptures depicting events like racist lynchings and sexual assaults.
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First, while Stone has a long history of sordid conduct -- he proudly calls himself a "dirty trickster" -- he is 67 years old and has no prior criminal convictions.
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His ex-colleague, a violent sociopath named Rorschach, investigates his death, and in doing so uncovers a history of sordid secrets and betrayals including rape, sadism and murder.
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But lawmakers in both parties have objected to JBS USA receiving federal money because of the sordid history of JBS S.A.'s owners: brothers Joesely and Wesley Batista.
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The preponderance of evidence now suggests that Republican Alabama Senate nominee Roy Moore, who was ardently backed by Bannon, may well have a sordid past abusing teenage girls.
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The answer lies not in any sordid details that Trump's tax returns might reveal, but rather in what the refusal itself says about the man and his ambitions.
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But while the kidnapping is the movie's main event, it is only part of a story that is, by turns, a sordid, desperate and anguished tragedy about money.
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If the recent compromise loosens Russia's grip on incriminating evidence, then WADA can sort through the archives and gradually close the door on one of sport's most sordid scandals.
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This whole sordid, drown-y, rape-y, depersonalizing business has been laid at his feet, and death doesn't seem like it would stop Logan Roy from tormenting a man.
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FOR TEN weeks the trial in New York of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, a Mexican drug lord known as "El Chapo", has revealed sordid tales of graft, girls and gore.
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We got the hip-hop stars outside Poppy nightclub in L.A. Friday night, engaging in a lively discussion about the sordid allegations and controversy currently surrounding the disgraced musicians.
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They are an emphatic rejection of all things malevolent and sordid, and an emphatic assertion of pleasure, catharsis, inventiveness, sensuality (understood comprehensively), unbridled growth, and connection with the world.
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In order to understand the potential of historical fingerprint analysis, it is critical that we also be aware of its sordid and racist past — as well as current limitations.
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The only person working harder than Nina is Barrett Hopper, who is intent to break the scoop on Nina and Jordan's affair as well as Jordan's sordid, deadly past.
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These cues lure the viewer by promising the sordid details of the girls' ordeals, playing on our fears for ourselves and our prurient wish to know about others' suffering.
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And so Ben releases Jubilee — from the sordid construction she wants no part of — about 10 paces away from the hotel's back entrance, as if to make a statement.
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In a statement reeking of hypocrisy, given Russia's sordid record in Georgia, Crimea and Ukraine, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov warned against any American "meddling" in Venezuelan affairs.
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Letters To the Editor: The Panama Papers have exposed the sordid details of how the rich and powerful hide their wealth by using tax havens to avoid paying taxes.
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Prime among this crowd, and a sordid inspiration to the rest, is Vladimir Putin's Russia, one of the five veto-wielding permanent members of the 15-member Security Council.
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But Weinstein isn't acting like Santa Claus so much as a liberal Roger Ailes, and he's tendering a sordid Faustian bargain that Democrats—and liberals in general— should reject.
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A would-be "manifesto" thought to be posted by the shooter not only offers sordid clues but also lays out an intent to terrorize the majority-Latino border town.
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Judit conducts a freighted journey through the complexities of this imaginary German-Jewish nation, introducing its highly educated intellectuals and the Orthodox "black hat" denizens of its sordid underbelly.
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Children with runny noses and mosquito bites smiled sweetly and clung to visitors, taking them by the hand and beckoning them to inspect the sordid alleyways between the tents.
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At the time I, like most Americans, was glad to see Clinton prevail and regarded the whole sordid matter as primarily the fault of congressional Republicans' excessive scandal-mongering.
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" As Jackson leads me through the restaurant, he hastens to add: "Obviously it's inspiration but the evenings are slightly less sordid and a bit less gluttonous than the film.
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Of course, it doesn't help Forever 21's plight that it's struggled with ethics — a sordid history of alleged copyright-infringement battles, to start, as Jezebel detailed in 2011.
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In Alabama, an energized opposition took advantage of a late-breaking scandal (Moore's sordid sexual history), an unenthusiastic Republican electorate, and Trump's lagging approval ratings to win the seat.
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For much of her service, she withheld the sordid details from her father, worried that he too might play down her suffering or be inclined not to believe her.
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But given municipal broadband's sordid past, it is probably safe to assume that having the government provide critical broadband infrastructure — as a monopolist no less — won't achieve this goal.
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There&aposs a sordid, well-documented history of content moderators reviewing graphic and disturbing imagery — jobs that have taken tolls on their mental health and led to psychological trauma.
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By 1987, North had been made the fall guy for Iran-Contra, fired by President Reagan for it, and was ready to tell the whole sordid tale to Congress.
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Those with deeper knowledge of American Muslims, a minority that is much better integrated than some of their counterparts in Europe, can easily see such sordid fantasy as paranoia.
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Israeli authorities have indicted Sara Netanyahu, the wife of embattled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, for fraud in a sordid case that has transfixed the country for several years.
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And all that had to happen for the entire plot to be revealed was for President Trump himself — the innocent victim of the whole sordid episode — to declassify the report.
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Sessions has violated the basic terms of that deal, pursuing an ideological agenda that's closely associated with Trump's campaign while trying to distance himself personally from sordid Russia-related matters.
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While the USIA wasn't seen as a direct arm of the US intelligence community, it still had a rather sordid history with the CIA, as I've noted in the past.
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It has become a rallying point for the victims and their supporters who hold weekly protests at the site, reminding the world of the sordid history Japan prefers to forget.
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Many of the men around him (Gingrich, Roger Ailes, Rudy Giuliani, Stephen Bannon) have sordid personal histories that would become fair game if the Clinton's own history were brought up.
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There is a long and sordid history of car companies using "defeat devices" to skirt government pollution and other mandated regulations mainly because the incentives to do so are significant.
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The tantrum, the beauty, and the comparisons to Turner — best known for her ice-cold platinum look and secretly sordid private life — provided the star mold for Theron's early image.
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In 2008, The Daily Mail told a sordid tale about Gladys, a chicken who was left deeply isolated after a fox killed most of her family, 13 chicks in total.
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Over the course of 30 seconds of pacing and sweeping arm gestures, Hotz captured the room by running through the "sordid tale" of the last eight months of his life.
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It's a long wait, but it'll give you plenty of time to catch up if you're interested in diving into the sordid inner workings of the fictional New York Symphony.
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It's time to blow the lid off the twisted, sordid details in The Little Mermaid, The Snow Queen (the basis of Frozen), and more beloved tales that became Disney classics.
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And his defence of liberal democracy is a welcome antidote both to the sordid past of the Fujimori family and to the worrying autocratic misrule on display in nearby Venezuela.
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And because Nick has decided that he is every woman's surrogate big brother, he convinces the twins to talk to Amanda about Josh's sordid past before they leave the island.
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The government has had a decades long sordid history with the UFO narrative, and UFO mogul Tom DeLonge's latest deal with the US Army is definitely raising a few eyebrows.
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Our country has a long, sordid history of locking people with mental and physical disabilities in institutions in the name of preventing them from doing harm to themselves or others.
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The first online article I wrote, titled "If My Gender Is Fluid, Yet My Sexuality Not, How Do I Know Who to Bonk?" placed these sordid anecdotes front and center.
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So this will be the scope of the investigation: it's not a question of if someone must pay the price for the sordid transaction, it's just a matter of whom.
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At a time when this country is at a crossroads, this will become an intersection where the sordid, sinful and divisive past meets an inclusive, hopeful vision for the future.
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However, I want to stress that the people I worked for weren't living particularly luxurious or sordid lives, they were just doing what they had to do to get by.
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Yet the latest mini-wave devoted to the most sordid murderers -- including the return of Netflix's "Mindhunter" -- underscores the tension between feeding fascination with the topic and inadvertently glamorizing it.
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Perhaps the most bizarrely unhinged moment in Sheriff Clarke's sordid career in Milwaukee came in March when he used a Facebook post to personally attack the city's mayor, Tom Barrett.
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"I just was overwhelmed by the sense of degradation he's brought to the office already, with his sordid behavior and damaging words," said Representative Gerald E. Connolly, Democrat of Virginia.
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Moreover, many in the public are now directing their ire not just at the Confederacy, but also at what they perceive to monuments celebrating our country's sordid history of discrimination.
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In his own mind, Lenin could and did justify his actions as tactical maneuvers serving the higher cause of Communism, not the sordid war aims of the German Imperial Government.
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North Korea has criticized Washington's decision to ban U.S. passport holders from visiting the North, with state media describing it on Friday as a "sordid" attempt to limit human exchanges.
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As for me, well, I'll be waiting for the Bong Joon-ho "Boxy Superhero" cinematic universe to bring us a happy end to this sordid cycle of grimdark beer-holding.
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In China, government officials have been targeted, receiving photos of their sordid behavior in the mail with a threat that the images will go public if money is not paid.
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Rose's comments came in the midst of a Twitter battle between West, Rose and her ex-husband, the rapper Wiz Khalifa, the silliest and most sordid celebrity scandal in recent memory.
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Go back to enjoying your reverse Milkshake Duck while you can, before he turns out to have a sordid past that will make this all seem like a long-lost dream.
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You want to shake Harry every time he appears on screen, but we've got to commend Rickman for making us feel all the feels over his sordid affair with his secretary.
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Many in the disability community have come to her defense in recent days, and indeed, there is a long and sordid history in this country of pathologizing women's bodies and minds.
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Along with her siblings, Dolezal tells the story of a questionable if not sordid upbringing by her biological parents, Ruthanne and Larry, who, in 2015, confirmed that their daughter is white.
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Pick-up artists have filled sordid books with negging techniques and terminology like "dancefloor real estate," in order to provide guidance to hapless dweebs in their pursuit of the mythical lay.
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He seethed in October that opponents had stymied his return to politics by repeating allegations he profited from the "sordid Bettencourt affair" (he was cleared of charges over it in 2013).
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Like the Dickens tale, the story follows the orphaned Oliver (an adolescent in this production) as he overcomes poverty and servitude and breaks free from the sordid characters who surround him.
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But then Monica came along — and the affair in the Oval Office, with all the sordid details (and evidence via the infamous blue dress), were made public via the Drudge Report.
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In the film's reductive take on things, Gray represents the influence of politicians on the FBI, Sullivan the FBI's sordid past, and Felt all that is good and righteous about it.
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This is the worst of us; both a reminder of how low humanity has sunk and a stark warning that we may well still have far more sordid depths to plummet.
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We're told he believes his fellow prisoners all look up to him and wouldn't harm him ... despite facing sordid charges that include sex with minors -- which makes most prisoners a target.
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In Lila, we see it through the eyes of John Ames's wife, a migrant with a sordid past who never quite feels at home in Gilead, though her husband barely knows.
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The story of Amanda Knox has been thoroughly canvassed in the media as a dark mystery — a sordid tale of murder, sex, and a wild stay in scenic Italy gone wrong.
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There were so many sordid twists that it was more farcical than shocking, making it seem that the original incident needed to be pumped up in order to be truly horrifying.
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If there is doubt that the timing of Mr. McCabe's dismissal was driven by political vengeance, Mr. Trump does everything he can to prove the worst with his own sordid words.
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I'm not going to buy all the sordid details of "that crap," as the president-elect called intelligence reports of his being compromised by nasty people operating out of the Kremlin.
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At the entrance, a marker recounts the sordid fate of one of its inhabitants, the Princess de Lamballe, a confidante of Marie Antoinette who was set upon there by a mob.
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To believe that black actors, writers and film artists are not worthy of nomination, and to largely ignore these artists over the years, is to be willfully ignorant of this sordid history.
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It's an odd thing that Farrow's letter — which resonated like a sonic boom — caused reporters to look into other prominent figures whose sordid pasts had been forgotten or concealed, but it did.
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It's so clever that, even when it's sordid and sad, and even though Zahedi continually reminds the viewer that it's a document of working through shame, he mostly comes across as shameless.
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Through her research, she's able to dive into the sordid history of affairs, the modern prevalence of romantic love, and why, exactly, infidelity doesn't always lead to the dissolution of a marriage.
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In that place, that sordid and ruined place, I lived among other dreamers, and we spent our days doing nothing, mostly, making things with our hands, listening to music, and making community.
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Topics include new Hall of Fame class with Shaq, Allen Iverson, Yao Ming, and Sheryl Swoopes; Golden State versus Scottie Pippen; end of year awards; and the week's sordid social media action.
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Mr. Vance said earlier this year that he would no longer prosecute people based solely on fare-beating, a sordid use of the courts that costs taxpayers about $50 million every year.
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And while that reflects the grim realities of a sordid situation that was allowed to go unchecked, even as a back-to-back binge the compelling narrative can at times feel unwieldy.
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Perhaps I am most invested in the sordid tale of desperate Cool Girl Marquise de Montespan (Anna Brewster), the king's mistress who dabbles in the black arts to retain his waning affections.
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The debate pits those who see the statues as tributes to Southern heritage and symbols of American history against others who regard them as a glorification of a sordid history of racism.
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Targeting political opponents with claims of corruption has a storied and sordid history in places like Putinist Russia, where authorities recently slapped anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny with claims of money laundering.
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Without using Amy, I asked Ryan to meet me for lunch at a cafe in the West Village, where I unbosomed the sordid news that I had taken on a virtual assistant.
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Before this year, I never thought of caginess as a particularly American trait, but in Mexico, I'm frequently struck by how many people relay the sordid details of their lives without apology.
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Conservative "intellectual" Ed Whelan tried this tactic out going so far as to identify the supposed Doppelganger, thereby dragging an innocent bystander into the whole sordid affair based on a Zillow map.
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Forbes interviewed 13 former Badoo employees both on and off the record about behavior at the company, which they said included drug-fueled parties, the objectification of women, and sordid software updates.
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Because the "nation's history and traditions" Rehnquist and Kavanagh hold in such esteem are long, sordid traditions of oppression, prejudice and exacting control over others, the odds are not in our favor.
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It's a sordid, carnal pleasure I'm after—something I hide from friends and loved ones, taking back streets to avoid running into people I know; people who might let my secret slip.
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In addition to outlining the possible case for impeachment, Mr. Starr also planned to give lawmakers an extended "narrative," full of sordid details, about the affair between Mr. Clinton and Ms. Lewinsky.
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America has always been fascinated by the scandalous and sordid, and once the 24/7 cable news cycle became firmly entrenched in the mid-1990s, the country was ready to gorge itself.
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This minimization makes it an even worse offense that the film does take the time to depict Mercury having a series of promiscuous sexual encounters, which it paints as sordid and shameful.
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Over the last six weeks, a parade of witnesses in federal court have described years of sordid and petty corruption — police commanders doing favors in exchange for junkets, prostitutes and luxury gifts.
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"Yet again, a New York jury heard a sordid tale of bribery, extortion, and the abuse of power by a powerful public official of this state," Mr. Khuzami said in a statement.
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" And it's equally riveting, in its sordid way, that the credibility-free Trump spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders was compelled to state, "I can definitely say that the president is not a liar.
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But when and if the case comes to trial, observers believe that prosecuting sordid allegations against one of the most powerful figures in Lesotho will be a stiff test of judicial independence.
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The facts surrounding this sordid drama of failed leadership are convoluted at best, but a report released by Ohio State from an independent investigation seems to have made a few things clear.
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"The fact that the company was falsifying all these applications with the government shows a sordid attempt to avert accountability and get a rapid return on its investment," Carr said in March.
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Western societies—though it is not only the West that clings to this construct—believe that childhood is supposed to be a separate, playful, safe realm, protected from sordid grown-up business.
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However, the white robe of the Ku Klux Klan captures how symbols and color can be used to promote division, hate and fear for the sordid purpose of promoting a white America.
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It was a time when Times Square was being transformed from a place where people lived out personal fantasies, sometimes sordid ones, to a place where corporations dictated those ideals and fantasies.
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"Altria has a long and sordid history of spending billions to entice children to smoke through targeted campaigns that intentionally lied about the science and health effects from cigarettes," the letter says.
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Mr. Selge frequently climbs aboard, letting himself be tossed and turned by the revolving assemblage, as he narrates both the dramatic political events and the sordid details of his character's pathetic existence.
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Figueroa and Birch had spirited discussions after the January budget proposal about why it wouldn't work in a city with a sordid history of police and community relations, including several misconduct scandals.
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The court called B.S., saying if the estranged couple wanted to keep it on the DL, they shouldn't have included the sordid allegations in the initial divorce petition, which was filed publicly.
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To be clear, I'm not suggesting that the show's writers and producers intended for late-run Gossip Girl to be read as a sordid and cold story of prostitution and emotional horror.
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That would be 23-year-old actress Madelaine Petsch, who plays Cheryl Blossom, the privileged captain of the cheerleading squad whose sordid family drama will be a major plot line in season 2.
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" Furthermore, he offered, "I see it fitting into the NO ZU pantheon as the nocturnal sex dream, sordid version of our first record Life, which was all day-glo idiosyncrasies and spontaneous energy.
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Well, with the ways that we measure political success in this sordid era and by the conventions of how party loyalists are supposed to behave, I hope to continue to fail my tribe.
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When you combine the ring's sordid past with the current interest surrounding Donald Trump, who is the presumptive republican nominee for president, the high price tag of the ring seems less than surprising.
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I simply assume the position, sitting side-by-side, no eye contact, someone from work telling me about some sordid thing they did on the weekend, me occasionally asking questions and passing judgement.
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Their sordid Arkham Asylum meet-cute adds to the general derangement of Suicide Squad, but the couple's history in the DC universe is decades older (and far more detailed) than the 2016 film.
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First he lays in on the latest dark revelations about the deep state as we learn every more sordid details about the Obama administration weaponized the Intel community into a political hit machine.
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Barry joins other millennials who have foregone romance, bucking the stereotype that today's young people are sex-crazed monsters who stumble around in public, swiping left and right on sordid apps like Tinder.
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This patently absurd story has been repeatedly rejected by responsible journalists as false, while the whole sordid history of the posts -- and their total inaccuracy -- has been outlined in grubby detail on Snopes.
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But that hasn't meant much rest for Uber's weary communications department, as the company has been under fire for its internal culture after numerous allegations of gender discrimination and other sordid tales emerged.
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Our sordid wish to know her secrets propels the show, and the OA's story plays out in a series-long flashback as she tells her story to a crew of five local misfits.
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"A bit of a sordid tale here, but when Zakia was studying in London, a story broke out that she preferred lunch boxes to baguettes," he says and then points to his pal.
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But in recent weeks, Oakland has been rocked by a cascade of sordid revelations that have left the city without a police chief and have surprised even a citizenry inured to police scandals.
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The seamy, sordid aspects of the Dahlia murder -- and the implications about what Hodel did, and might have done, in the nearly two decades after it -- provide a creepy undercurrent to the proceedings.
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In THUMP Colombia's new photo series, THUMP Captures, we bring you a visual profile of some of the dopest, strangest, and perhaps a bit sordid dance parties to hit the South American nation.
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This is a sobering and sordid list -- and while the bulk of these convictions and pleas occurred under Republican presidents, they're all a reminder that every administration has its scandals and bad apples.
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Despite that vow, Mr. Cuomo has presided over a series of corruption scandals, including inside the governor's inner circle, as well as more sordid reports of sexual harassment, groping and other ugly behavior.
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Once a hero of the resistance to apartheid, Mr. Zuma became increasingly embroiled in sordid corruption scandals, prompting the A.N.C. to elect another leader and to effectively force Mr. Zuma out of office.
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"I wanted my show to say, 'We don't have to be afraid of this, and we can tell this story with all the sordid details that go along with it,' " said Mr. Fein.
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Read more:The first black Barbie to use a wheelchair is here, and people are loving the message it sends to kidsPeople love this Instagram account that follows the sordid drama of Barbie dolls.
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No matter how many decent Americans come forward to expose his sordid behavior, will Trump be hauled out of the White House kicking and screaming while a celebratory Baby Trump balloon flies overhead?
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There were plenty of unscrupulous recruiters who made all kinds of promises and deceived trusting job seekers — a cruel and sordid side of the industry that Mr. Wiley acknowledged is all too common.
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The prosecutors' case file, which runs to about 25,000 pages, also alleges a sordid nexus between Mr. Kocner and the country's political elite — the same line of reporting that Mr. Kuciak's journalism pursued.
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But only Cohen worked across all aspects of the Trump business while also handling sordid issues, such as payoffs to silence women alleging they had sex with a married Trump (Trump denies this).
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But, suddenly faced with the prospect of a suspension that could cost him his $85033 million or so annual salary if not his career, he wrote a new act to the sordid drama.
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There is only one thing we know for certain about this whole sordid imbroglio—the intelligence community is not supposed to interfere with the orderly transfer of power in the U.S. political system.
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One of Mr. Vucic's most vocal supporters is Dragan Vucicevic, the editor and owner of The Informer, which is known for salacious and sordid cover articles, many of them targeting Mr. Vucic's critics.
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The brief appearance, which lasted 29 seconds, came amid a sordid swirl of reports about his alleged affair with porn actress Stormy Daniels and a thunderstorm of criticism over his beloved steel tariffs.
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For the Romanov children, life was one long round of luxury and innocent pleasure marred only by the sickliness of their haemophiliac little brother and their mother's sordid relationship with the celebrity monk Rasputin.
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But watching Simon on the job, sword fighting a bald bad guy at the Isle of Wight Pirate Festival this past July, it's easy to forget the sordid behavior of the actor he's imitating.
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Teenagers — many of them soon to vote in their first presidential election — are capable, after all, of comprehending the sordid parts of history, and have a right to be presented with the whole picture.
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A special prosecution, set up at Ms Park's request, announced the results of its three-month investigation this week into her alleged abuse of power and the sordid collusion between political and corporate elites.
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He honed an image as an apolitical advocate of Yankee civic virtues, at one remove from the sordid business of party politics, even as he painted every major presidential candidate from Eisenhower to Nixon.
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It's scintillating, often scary, stuff, and many of the more sordid bits were already covered in a lengthy excerpt in New York mag as well as articles in The Guardian and The Hollywood Reporter.
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" In fairness to Sanders, the Vermonter has been fairly clear that he doesn't appreciate sordid anti-Hillary attacks, saying, "Anybody who is supporting me that is doing the sexist things... we don't want them.
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But with Trump's business acumen now discredited, his lack of charity exposed and his family history a sordid shambles, what's left to commend him as a worthwhile human being, much less a presidential candidate?
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Yet if January had been stormy, March would bring another torrent of sordid headlines, now belonging to Karen McDougal, whose accusations of an adulterous affair with Donald Trump were far more personal and detailed.
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Last December, HuffPost Live journalist Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani tried to question him about the more sordid parts of his past, and the musician threw a mini-tantrum on air, eventually walking off the set.
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The casual ease of the whole thing is what makes it so awful, and it's the best indictment the show ever came up with against the entire corrupt and sordid culture of the 09ers.
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At this point, Game of Thrones reigns unquestioned as the myth cycle du jour, a contemporary Iliad or Gilgamesh that partakes of as much pitch-black political consciousness as it does sordid European history.
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Grueling and sordid or not, it has placed matters of sex, power and gender at the center of the national conversation, not off in the peripheral space typically reserved for women's issues in media.
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But the strategy of keeping information and limiting access to knowledge from black Americans — blacks make up only 14 percent of New York's population but 49 percent of its prisoners — has a sordid history.
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She dives into the strange and sordid history of Rhode Island, taking particular interest in two institutions: organized crime and the daily newspaper, the Providence Journal, where her father worked as a delivery driver.
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A dozen years earlier, a sordid scandal stemming partly from a family falling-out had reduced the senior Mr. Kushner from real estate baron to felon making wallets at a prison camp in Alabama.
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" Ken Frydman, his spokesman, denied all the claims and said Mr. Bacon had spent more than a decade trying "to smear Peter Nygard by coercing women to fabricate and manufacture sordid stories about him.
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The best way into the winningly sordid group show that Taylor Trabulus, associate director at Gavin Brown, put together for Karma's new West Adams location is through Reba Maybury's black-and-white cardboard cutout.
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And a long, sordid history of American malign influence – from overthrowing a democratically-elected Iranian government (for oil) to propping up a tyrannical regime – elevates national security to the forefront of the Persian psyche.
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Mr. McConnell has not agreed to have any witnesses testify, making it clear that he would prefer to sweep the entire sordid business under the rug and acquit the president as quickly as possible.
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The whole Russia affair might, in other words, just be what it looks like when an inexperienced, incompetent and, yes, sordid presidential apparatus tries to pursue a different foreign policy agenda than its predecessors.
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There are distracting detours, such as one involving the retrieval of the daughter of a Fleet Street editor (Eddie Marsan) from a sordid drug squat, but otherwise the tale pretty much stays on track.
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This election — for the most part, a sordid late-night movie offering with casts of characters that even defy central casting — has given the bullyboys of Bosnia a run at finger-pointing and evasion.
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For many people, this is achieved by enduring the two-hour wait at your favorite corner brunch spot and sucking down a trifecta of Bloody Marys while discussing the previous night's most sordid details.
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When you hear about the Central Intelligence Agency releasing a cache of declassified documents via Freedom of Information Act request, you probably envision sordid, heavily redacted tales of black ops sites and deep-cover spies.
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"Mississippi's long, sordid history of racial discrimination and politicians who exploit racial divisions only perpetuate this broken system in which African-American interests are woefully underrepresented in the state government," Holder said in a statement.
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Price not only has a long and sordid record of fighting against LGBTQ equality and women's reproductive rights, but he's also an outspoken critic of the Affordable Care Act (and ACA provisions for birth control).
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With that in mind—as well as the normal caveat that the following anecdotes are coming from a single person's memory and experience—here are the most cringe-worthy parts of Martinez's sordid tale.2314.
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Weather modification has a long, sordid history and hurricanes have inspired some of the more far-fetched proposals, from bombarding cyclones with sonic booms from aircraft to beaming down microwaves from space into nascent storms.
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The sensation it imparts of a world turned upside-down feels more attuned to our moment than it does to its own, when Bill Clinton was facing impeachment for lying about his sordid sex life.
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Putting aside the mild creepiness of the fact that Uber wants to know where you like to party, the data is a peep into the night lives of New Yorkers, and it's a sordid sight.
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The case against Mr. Katumbi taps into much of Congo's sordid past: a whiff of rebellion, the talk of foreign mercenaries and the way power in Congo tends to be exercised, absolutely and with ruthlessness.
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The sordid conditions of its condemned—stowed away for decades, eight men to a 120-square-foot cell, sustained on filthy gruel and constantly recontaminating one another with disease—are the least of its horrors.
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Every moment with Ryan as the focus is filled with a sordid richness that is just so clever and smart and well thought-out it's genuinely one of the most enjoyable aspects of the show.
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The sordid details of what can be found in the book is detailed in a flurry of major stories in the Washington Post, The Hill, the home page of CNN and other respected news sites.
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Mr. Wildstein's credentials for the post were his bizarre and sordid political past, like once stealing Senator Frank Lautenberg's suit jacket before a debate so the Democrat would look uncomfortable onstage in a borrowed coat.
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An entire cottage industry of money and politics reporters came of age in the late 1970s and 1980s and devoted their careers to revealing the often sordid connections between campaign donations, interest groups and politicians.
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Warren's comment -- which prompted an immediate response from the RNC that she "fails to put this whole sordid saga behind her" -- was hardly the reason Warren was speaking to the students at Morgan State University.
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It's easy to interpret the paucity of coverage as reflective of the banal—by sordid American standards—nature of many mass shootings, most of which were your standard street, party, club, or drive-by attacks.
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WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump this week took his use of sordid accusations against Democrat Hillary Clinton to levels unprecedented in modern U.S. presidential campaigns, in the latest example of the Republican's unorthodox playbook.
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Weather modification has a long, sordid history, and hurricanes have inspired some of the more far-fetched proposals, from bombarding cyclones with sonic booms from aircraft to beaming down microwaves from space into nascent storms.
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They found Keith Raniere, the leader of the cultlike group near Albany known as Nxivm, guilty of racketeering and sex trafficking, ending a six-week trial that exposed the sordid inner workings of the organization.
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And Dany wanted it enough to kill thousands of innocent people for it (and she still believed in the fairy tale of Aegon's Conquest and her family's sordid history right up until the very end).
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Everyone's favorite problematic-Instagrammer-cum-inescapable-culture-virus the Fat Jew—aka Josh Ostrovsky—is belly-flopping into the sordid petri dish of EDM parody with a new Major Lazer "tribute band" called Major Behavior.
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For much of the past century, the United States compiled a sordid history in Latin America, using force and cunning to install and support military regimes and other brutal thugs with little interest in democracy.
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All of them now apparently in the cross hairs of the F.B.I. Pitino dodged other bullets, including a messy extramarital and extortion entanglement and the sordid revelation in 2015 that prostitutes had infiltrated his program.
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The sordid story of IRS corruption and political dirty tricks during the Obama years is widely known thanks to numerous documents and emails forced out of the government under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
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As they wrestle with these issues, it would be best for the Trump administration to mind its own sordid political business and avoid any further measures that diminish the chances for an already elusive peace.
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Opinion Columnist One minor sordid subplot of the Trump era has been the ugly custody battle between Jason Miller, senior communications adviser on Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, and A.J. Delgado, a former Trump campaign surrogate.
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Political documentary Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party, pegged as revealing "the sordid truth about Hillary and the secret history of the Democratic Party," earned the not-so-coveted prize of Worst Picture.
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He says it's not uncommon for girls and young women to be tricked by recruiters who pose as boyfriends, then deliver them to "guerilla" pimps who lure them into the sordid, often brutal world of prostitution.
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Weinstein's legal team hired the private intelligence firm K2 to both ensure that Manhattan's district attorney did not press charges against him for sexual misconduct and dig up sordid details of Gutierrez's past to discredit her.
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But somewhere in the mix they apparently forgot that these investigations weren't about uncovering the sordid truth, they were cynical political exercises designed to produce one outcome: To win the presidency and both houses of Congress.
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Criminal charges against drug company employees are unusual, legal experts said, underscoring the sordid nature of the case and its connection with fentanyl, which is frequently abused and can lead to deadly overdoses if inappropriately prescribed.
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The tricks have included a couple of Creature Feature debates, email scandals, xenophobic rants and personal attacks, all of which have too often been received as sordid but tantalizing treats by audience and news media alike.
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Mr. Ryan and Mr. McConnell could hardly dishonor themselves more than they already have in this sordid election year, but their refusal to stand up to Mr. Trump's pernicious lie may be their lowest moment yet.
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During questioning from prosecutors, Mr. Howe had painted a sordid picture of his dealings with Mr. Percoco, including using the code "ziti," a reference to the Mafia drama "The Sopranos," for payments from the two companies.
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" In an interview for the release of the book, Mihaies explained: John Kidd "died under sordid circumstances in 2010, buried in debt, detested, insulted, alone, abandoned by everyone, communicating only with pigeons on a Boston campus.
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But the Clinton operation was also extraordinarily sordid, in ways that should be thrown into particular relief by the absence of similar scandals in the Obama administration, which had perfervid enemies and circling investigators as well.
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Though he spent time in prison with Mr. Mandela and in exile, on coming to power he succumbed to the sordid lure of power's perks and now faces multiple accusations of corruption and other unethical behavior.
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John Coffee Jr., a professor at Columbia Law School who specializes in securities law, said the case had shed an important light on the "rather sordid market of buying and selling plaintiffs" in securities class actions.
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Setting aside Equifax's long, sordid history of privacy concerns and its refusal to let Americans opt out of collection, the very existence of such information, stored by private companies with little oversight, is a systemic risk.
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His book plunges headlong into the seediness of Las Vegas, weaving his participation in the 2000 World Series of Poker with the story of the mysterious, sordid death, in 1998, of the casino owner Ted Binion.
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Facing a structurally similar situation in 1998 and 1999, Clinton secured not only acquittal but a clear political triumph over his adversaries — emerging from impeachment very popular even though his underlying conduct was sordid at best.
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Neither possibility bodes well for Trump, who now faces the absurd but fitting possibility of being brought down not through exposure of his collusion with Russia but by the fallout from a single sordid sexual encounter.
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The people she helps haven't been whisked off to Caribbean islands on private jets, but the pattern is the same: sordid exploitation of vulnerable girls by older and more affluent men who get away with it.
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" It's a dense, ever-shifting collage, variously hinting at ska-punk, Britpop, fiddle tunes and "Sympathy for the Devil," with barbed bits of lyrics like "sordid, sentimental, sick souvenirs" and "Even the devil sold his soul.
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Author of the infamous "Starr Report," which included the sordid details of Clinton&aposs affair with Monica Lewinsky, the Republican lawyer had lately become one of Trump&aposs biggest defenders in television appearances on Fox News.
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Despite their steps to open talks ahead of the Winter Olympics, North Korea accused the South of "sordid acts of chilling" their reconciliation efforts and indicated that they could cancel the plan to send a delegation.
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I think the most reasonable response to the sordid episode came from the Federal Aviation Administration, which said at the time that unless it poses a flight risk, there ain't nothing they can do about it.
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Kiedis documented his own cycle of sobriety and relapse — and the strain it put on his friendship with Flea — in his 2004 autobiography "Scar Tissue," a sordid and soulful best seller that Flea said he's never read.
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It was clear to me that the jury, and the entire case in court, set up the verdict in response to the sordid history of this country, which has negatively affected so many generations of black people.
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The work speaks to the plights of migrants and the sordid conditions in which they live, but does so in a way that borders on victim porn, shot in a style that reminded me of Werner Herzog.
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On Monday, federal prosecutors unsealed new charges against notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in Manhattan, the latest chapter in a long, sordid saga that has threatened to ensnare presidents, high-powered socialites, and at least one royal.
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The American Fraternity also arrives at a time when the sordid underbelly of institutions explicitly meant to foster community—the Catholic Church, private schools, the whole US political system—have been exposed, or at least partly so.
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Despite the sordid allegations against his former aide and friend, Joseph Percoco, and Alain E. Kaloyeros, a state official whom Mr. Cuomo had repeatedly praised as a visionary, the governor makes only cameo appearances in the complaint.
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By the time Nuria Piera, a local TV journalist, began to air the sordid allegations in September 2013, however, it was too late for the Dominican authorities to act—Pope Francis had already recalled Wesołowski to Rome.
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"A great aspect of what we're trying to do today is shine a bright light on this sordid industry that exists in the darkness," North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein said Thursday at the National Press Club.
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The probe targeting the president's eldest son threatens one of the core premises of Bolsonaro's campaign last year: that he alone could clean up the sordid political corruption exposed by Brazil's sweeping graft investigations in recent years.
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There followed on Day 22010 a vintage Charles Addams book of cartoons and, next, a copy of the 22001 "Hollywood Babylon," Kenneth Anger's lascivious (and factually dubious) account of the inhabitants of Tinseltown and their sordid antics.
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This is the sordid transportation scene in San Francisco, where a bill allowing the city to remove un-permitted and badly parked electric scooters taking up valuable sidewalk space got a nod from the city's Board of Supervisors.
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During the proceedings, much of the attention was drawn, naturally, to Jocelyn's looks, along with various sordid rumors about her personal life, such as that she'd worked as a prostitute for the famous Paris bordello owner Madame Claude.
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Nearby, Gqunta's "Divider," (2016) a snaking curtain of beer bottles hanging from knotted fabric, is a ghostly allusion to the sordid colonial patrimony of alcoholism, but also the homemade petrol bombs used in the armed struggle against apartheid.
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Sandwiched in between the disaster that was 2017, and the expectation that the company will go public in 2019, this was a year for Uber to put its sordid past behind it and stride confidently into the future.
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Based on Evelyn Waugh's novel of the same name, Longoria plays Margot Beste-Chetwynde, an American woman who charms an expelled Oxford student — without telling him about her sordid side income from a number of South American brothels.
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I spent a rather sordid afternoon with my multi-tool by the creek, my own bitter coprolalia punctuated by the laughter of the other women on the crew, who had come to spectate for lack of better entertainment.
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Mihail Gofman, a senior Moldovan law enforcement whistle blower, who is cooperating with the US Government investigation, has fingered him as the pivotal figure in the sordid story of the Moldovan oligarchic state capture, including the bank heist.
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But this was just the first, modest step in what is shaping to be a larger war over how much of Trump's sordid financial history is in the public interest—and how much people actually care about it.
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While their relationship has spanned a decade, the public has insisted on sordid shows of solidarity with Pitt's ex-wife Jennifer Aniston and hyperbole about how often Pitt and Jolie have adopted children from Cambodia, Vietnam, and Ethiopia.
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The word count for this article could have run into the tens of thousands, and no primer on British nightlife could ever be truly comprehensive, but for now, here's a brief overview of a sordid, sublime, sprawling world.
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This election reflects sordid calculations all around: Johnson hoping that he can win a majority, the Scottish National Party wanting the balloting over before it is discredited by a sexual assault trial next year involving its former leader.
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You feel really sorry for the main character at the beginning and then she has this sordid affair and you kind of want it to work and in this weird way you are complicit in the whole thing.
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DramaAlert's rise to fame—the channel has more than a million followers—hinges on Keemstar's willingness to address controversial, puerile, and occasionally sordid subject matter, along with his chronic name-dropping of public figures more famous than himself.
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My sister was astonished as I related the sordid details of a conversation he had shared with me about sex, girls, his own sexual prowess and what he bragged he could do to young virgins of either gender.
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An estimated 20 million Americans tore through the independent counsel's findings, laid out in a 445-page document that contained sordid, voyeuristic details about Clinton's affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky and argued forcefully for his impeachment.
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This is part of the genre's allure: the windows it opens onto the street life of Victorian London, the sordid fringes of postwar Hollywood, the doldrums of Sweden's welfare state, and the sooty haunts of working-class Edinburgh.
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But as we draw near to the end of this long and sordid campaign, they are standing behind and beside the Republican nominee for president, explaining away his misogyny and racism for the promise of Supreme Court justices.
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But Mr. Trump should also make clear that the special counsel must keep to his mandate — Russian meddling in the 2016 elections — and forget the unrelated payments to various mistresses, which, however sordid, do not relate to that investigation.
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Barnes was simply checking into Saturday night's game for the Memphis Grizzlies, but given his sordid history with the man standing no more than 25 feet away, in front of the opposing bench, it felt like so much more.
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Trump is so little concerned with being tagged as a con artist that he openly touts his support by Don King, whose sordid history includes stomping a man to death and bilking the boxers he was supposed to represent.
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We talked to the author to find out why the city was so welcoming of rogue outsiders, whether these guys were more sordid predators than hapless party boys, and how World War II ended their reign, changing Shanghai forever.
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Having originated in the U.K., the program is a dark spy thriller, starring Mark Strong as an MI6 assassin who is drawn out of retirement, returning to a sordid, violent life that's unknown to his new wife and children.
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"This case depicts the sordid episode of the life of a woman who spoiled her homely environment and family relationships running after the politics and politicians, forgetting her solemn duties and responsibilities of a matrimonial life," the court found.
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That crew is headed by Hunter Franklin (Ed Quinn) and Victoria Franklin (Kron Moore), a fresh president and first lady whose sordid personal affairs (romantic and otherwise), infighting and disreputable dealings threaten to spill over into their public lives.
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The anonymous motion seeking to keep the records sealed underscored the sordid nature of the allegations against Mr. Epstein and the fear of people in his social circles that their standing could be harmed by any links to him.
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The trial, which took place in St. Petersburg in March, laid out a sordid tale of betrayal and exposure, told mostly by Hogan, whose lavishly mustachioed visage remains one of the prominent faces of the sport of pro wrestling.
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The now-president's campaign rallies—which continue to this day—quickly became known as hotbeds of racial animus, sordid scenes that featured routine incitements of rage against the press (by Trump, among others), and, in some cases, actual combat.
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Mr. Jacquot's version is the most faithful and straightforward, exposing the sordid underpinnings of the bourgeois society in which the maid Célestine (Léa Seydoux, of "Blue Is the Warmest Color") lives as a kind of internal refugee, scorned and exploited.
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Soon after Trump's election in 2016, pastor Franklin Graham, the son of the late Billy Graham, explained it this way, "Now people say, 'Well, Frank, but how can you defend him, when he's lived such a sordid life,'" Graham said.
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There's an awkward story about flashing a stranger in an airport bathroom, a sordid tale of lost virginity on the second hole of a golf course, and a whole lot of Dave Bautista guessing Mark Ruffalo for pretty much every round.
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His job, which he'd freely admit was sordid and neck deep in hypocrisy, was working for one of the better-known galleries in LA. He was basically employed to buy art to complement the interior design of rich people's homes.
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The difference in accessibility with the new Sesame Street is stark This sordid little tale may sound like the ultimate in #firstworldproblems, but it highlights the difference between how accessible Sesame Street was a week ago and how it is today.
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In the weeks leading up to the hearing, media has already been on a rampage, revealing the sordid tale that put Bresch in the hot seat in the first place: In 2007, Mylan purchased the EpiPen from Merck for $6.7 billion.
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Then came the revelations about Louis CK, whose sordid alter-ego was supposedly a satire of social privilege: grim proof that even the people who say all the right things can lever their power to do all the wrong ones.
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So maybe obviously, when I sent a link of that ring to some friends, I didn't feel the bright pop and hiss of feminine success, or even the sordid bedazzlement of finding and procuring the exactly right, forever-perfect, beautiful thing.
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It became known as the "boom-boom room" suit, named after a basement party room at Smith Barney's branch office in Garden City, N.Y. Nearly 21996,21997 women joined the case, exposing the sordid antics of Wall Street's testosterone-driven culture.
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"I still have a visceral, electric memory of her," said Michael Gross, the author of "Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women" and "Focus: The Secret, Sexy, Sometimes Sordid World of Fashion Photographers," which will be published on July 5.
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The Interpreter If Russia was indeed behind last week's leak of stolen data from the Democratic National Committee, we may be seeing one of the most sordid tools of its domestic politics deployed as a hostile weapon in foreign policy.
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A sordid TMZ moment resurfaced — a former girlfriend, the 22009 Playmate of the Year, claimed in a 2009 lawsuit (since dismissed) that Mr. Metropoulos had assaulted her — and a close relationship with his older brother only appeared to complete the picture.
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And he doubled down on attacking Hillary Clinton over Bill Clinton's sordid behavior, holding a photo op right before the debate with three of Bill's accusers, and then trying to get them seated in his family box at the debate.
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She has claimed a political sour spot, in which her domestic policy positions are too far left to make her a unifying figure, but her sordid establishmentarianism still has left-wing voters pining for Bernie Sanders and considering Jill Stein.
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The real way is far less sordid and more likely to actually happen to you: Robocalls, IRS fraud, and good old-fashioned stolen passwords are still some of the leading ways that Americans lost $271 billion to scams in 2017.
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After retelling a sordid tale of being jumped by Meek Mill's clan in a shoe store in his last DJ Vlad interview, Miller goes in depth about his initial meeting with Mr. Graham and being on the same "wave" musically.
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If so, Firtash and Kolomoisky provide the model means by which he, too, might worm his way into Trump's good graces: Spin some deliciously sordid yarns about Biden that might be deployed in this election year's fake-news charnel house.
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A woman who behaved like the thrice-married and affair-prone Mr. Trump — going on the radio to brag about her promiscuity, leaking sordid details about her sex life to the tabloids — would be unlikely to fall in the "virgin" category.
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Coe, whose real name was Barry Clark Heacock, co-starred in the 1957 movie "Peyton Place," about the sordid doings in a small New England town, which starred Lana Turner and was later turned into a primetime soap opera on ABC.
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A confused Bradley heard cheers in the crowd, and when someone told him why — the opponent had just lost by fewer points and beat the spread predicted by oddsmakers — his eyes were opened to the sordid callousness of the gambling world.
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Russia likes seeing President Trump in the White House in part because it provides the Kremlin a chance to point to the ugly side of American politics — to say, just as they did with Mr. Nixon, look how sordid, how hypocritical.
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After the familiar appearance of the on-screen title "8 months earlier," we meet the owner of that itchy trigger finger: Stephanie Patrick, a once-promising student at Oxford now supporting a drug habit through prostitution in a sordid London flat.
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Those allegations, as well as an explosive letter from a formal papal diplomat, have raised serious questions among senior church leaders about why McCarrick was allowed to rise through the church's ranks, as well as who knew about the sordid accusations.
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The prosecutors presented in its court papers a sordid and alternative perspective on Mr. Latchford, who had been hailed in Cambodia as a protector of the country's relics, having donated rare artifacts and money to the national museum in Phnom Penh.
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But, while much Pakistani fiction centers, like Hamid's, on the lives of the upper class, or, like Mueenuddin's, on fading feudal traditions, Hanif focusses on the sordid elements of society, and on the failures of the country's self-styled guardians.
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The major political event of my childhood, after all, was the impeachment of Bill Clinton for lying about oral sex, and I followed every sordid twist of the hearings on C-Span as if I were watching a daytime soap.
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As sordid as the film is, Bosley Crowther wrote in The Times, it is no cliché — rather "more a chunk of raw drama, graphically and artfully torn with appropriately ragged edges out of the tough underbelly of modern metropolitan life."
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To complete the sordid optics, Menendez actually would vote as a juror in any Senate trial of Trump, who is accused of suggesting a quid pro quo as opposed to the completed acts in return for lavish gifts charged against Menendez.
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James Comey should have delayed release of his book until after the Mueller investigation is concluded and after he had fulfilled his duty to justice as a crucial witness and central player in the sordid events that Mueller is investigating.
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It's clear that Hunter used his last name and the perch of privilege in order to fund the crack cocaine habit that got him kicked out of the military and obviously got him mixed up in some very sordid public things.
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A new documentary promises to reveal how the attraction, often dubbed "the world's most dangerous amusement park" came to be, the sordid means by which it stayed open for 18 years, and the memories of those who experienced it firsthand.
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Marshall's "Heirloom and Accessories" (2002) face Lawson — three works of layered found photographs that require the viewer to spend time contemplating what is being presented: inherited objects that carry weight, family legacies, and the sordid history of lynching and racial violence.
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Comey writes that Trump was focused on one particularly sordid detail from the dossier: an allegation that a blackmail tape exists of Trump asking prostitutes to pee on a bed in a room the Obamas stayed in at the Ritz-Carlton in Moscow.
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Heard in the background are the Tagalog declamations of the house DJ: comments picking on the girls, such as hinting at their toes sticking out of their stilettos — a sordid reminder of the interchangeability of the bodies and garments geared toward selling sex.
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In the wake of Justice Kennedy's departure, a sordid confirmation battle and a term that saw losses for public-sector unions alongside wins for a gay-wedding-averse Christian baker, gerrymanderers and pro-life pregnancy centres, lowering the temperature is a wise course.
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For some of us, holiday drinking means taking small, polite sips of mulled wine and eggnog with well-adjusted loved ones; for others, it's throwing back gin to drown out Uncle Bernard's ill-advised retelling of the sordid Daytona Beach Incident at Hanukkah.
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" Most Poignant Lyrics to Hear Today: "I've heard a rumor from Ground Control / Oh no, don't say it's true / They got a message from the Action Man 'I'm happy, hope you're happy too / I've loved all I've needed to love / Sordid details following.
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On March 15th state prosecutors summoned Ms Park, who has lost her immunity from criminal investigation along with her job, as a suspect in the months-long investigation into her alleged abuse of power and the sordid collusion between political and corporate elites.
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In Taxi Driver, De Niro is delusional self-styled vigilante Travis Bickle, a Vietnam vet and violent misanthrope who becomes obsessed with first a campaign worker (Cybill Shepherd), then an underage prostitute (Jodie Foster), and then, ultimately, his own sordid heroic fantasies.
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The Oakland Police Department, and other neighboring departments, is currently under investigation regarding a sordid sex scandal in which officers had sex with a former sex trafficking victim when she was underage and then solicited sex from her when she turned 18.
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I think what was really interesting for us, and we talked about this a lot, was the article was ostensibly kind of a bombshell about some sordid executive ... But this has been reported ... A lot of it had already ... It was collectively.
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It acknowledges the more sordid stories that trailed Lamarr—a string of failed marriages, a drug addiction that ravaged her physical and mental health, the ruinous plastic surgeries that left her a recluse, hiding in the shadow of her once famous face.
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All the sordid details and battlefield metaphors thereto pertaining can be found here, but the gist is that Spotify has been attempting to circumvent Apple's cut of subscription revenue by pushing its users to upgrade on the web rather than in the app.
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He reigns over the school like a morally bankrupt king, his sordid secrets restricted to unsubstantiated rumors amongst staff and pupils alike—and his palace is therefore a castle infested with treacherous enemies, its halls adorned with statues of shapely female backsides.
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Critics of Clarke point to what they term a sordid history of his management of the county's jail, but the past few months have also been marked by questions over whether he would be tapped for a formal role in the Trump administration.
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Although comparable to classic early '70s downers like "Chinatown" and "The Long Goodbye," this story of three post-hippie losers drawn by chance and paranoia into a sordid murder mystery was born too late and has never gotten the recognition it deserves.
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Dittrich arrived at Molaison's story with a distinctly personal perspective — he is Scoville's grandson, and his mother was Corkin's best friend growing up — and his work reveals a sordid saga that differs markedly from the relatively anodyne one that has become accepted wisdom.
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The entire sordid saga had been built upon their premise that Russian collusion with Team Trump had taken the election out of the hands of the American people and delivered an ill-gotten victory to the now leader of the free world.
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Going back to Christianity's roots in ancient Rome, they have tried to carve out a spiritual space where political authority does not apply and have insisted that that space, the kingdom of God, matters far more than this world's sordid and ephemeral quarrels.
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This is how (true?) stories like Zola's (a sordid saga of sex work, deception, and maybe murder, all tweeted out) and the McDonald's milkshake guy (a man going through the worst fast food order of his life, also tweeted out) became viral hits.
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When she threatened to sue, they published everything they had on her and Tennessee, which was a lot: accusations of blackmail and prostitution, the outstanding warrant for Tennessee's arrest from the failed cancer center, and every detail on their sordid, crazy family.
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"This Troika of Tyranny, this triangle of terror stretching from Havana to Caracas to Managua, is the cause of immense human suffering, the impetus of enormous regional instability, and the genesis of a sordid cradle of communism in the Western Hemisphere," Bolton said.
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His pieces are masterclasses on syncretic art, uniting various origins while subtly avoiding the sordid tinge of cultural appropriation—a subject worth broaching for anyone (especially a white man) who samples what he himself refers to as "primitive" and "world ethnic" music.
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Once, on a morning that we had an interview scheduled, I picked up the Washington Post over breakfast in my hotel room to see his name in big headlines and read a huge story about his role in a truly sordid Washington scandal.
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There's a lot of literary straining going on — the characters are more familiar than you'd expect with the work of Wallace Stevens and Theodore Dreiser, and the sordid capitalism and anti-Communist fervor depicted in the story invoke Sinclair Lewis and Jack London.
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The sordid tale of the president and the pornographic film actress hits its next chapter as Stephanie Clifford, who goes by the stage name Stormy Daniels, sits down with Anderson Cooper to recount a relationship with Donald J. Trump in 2006 and 2007.
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The Browns (0-3) turn the ball over too much to be taken seriously, and the Bengals (0-13) are filled with flaws and offer the conflicting emotions inherent in their talented rookie running back, Joe Mixon, toting around his sordid legal history.
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In a complaint filed in federal court Tuesday against the student, Joel Davis, 22, prosecutors outlined a series of sordid allegations, including an admission by Mr. Davis that he had sex with a 13-year-old boy in his New York apartment.
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His testimony in one of the trials helped expose years of sordid and petty corruption within the New York City Police Department — officials who had provided favors in exchange for junkets, prostitutes and expensive gifts — that reached the highest echelon of the department.
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Those allegations, as well as an explosive letter from a formal papal diplomat, have raised serious questions among senior church leaders about why McCarrick was allowed to rise through the church's ranks as well as who knew about the sordid accusations against him.
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When this story is finally told — when the sordid details are revealed, the dots finally connected — the Republican Party will be the political and institutional version of Mr. Cohen, who squandered his integrity in the service of a man of borderless corruption.
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And while some people rely on Reality Steve to spill the tea on the contestants' sordid pasts and reveal the winner months ahead of time, all we really want to know is one thing: how everyone keeps their makeup looking so good through it all.
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Even some more sordid allegations have caused brands to pause but return to successful endorsers, such as Nike's continued use of Kobe Bryant after he was accused of rape and sodomy and then the charges were later dropped when his accuser refused to testify.
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As the US comes to terms with sordid, uncovered tales of powerful men preying on women, the shift in acceptance of such behavior feels swift and gratifying; abusers are facing public scorn and consequences in the court of public opinion, if not criminal court.
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And yet it is difficult to express just how awful it is: how it makes us worry for our children in existential terms, how it makes our lives a little more sordid every day, how it slowly bleeds our world of joy and purpose.
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The sordid episode of Ansari's sexual misconduct will not correct either misogyny or sexism, but it is a reminder that we need to teach all young men how to truly communicate and empathize with women—how to interact with them as equals and not hunters.
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But maybe, if her sordid conduct in taping for the purpose of selling a book (however she tried to dress it up) becomes the impetus for changing state laws and ending the odious practice of secret taping, she may someday earn our reluctant thanks.
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Suicide Squad was supposed to show the world why so many Batman fans love Harley Quinn, the so-called sidekick who's so diabolically magnetic that she almost always manages to overshadow the Joker, who first inspired her to turn to a sordid life of crime.
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Mr. Howe, whose testimony began on Monday, had painted a sordid picture of the powerful Mr. Percoco as practically begging for bribe money — which the two men referred to as "ziti," a reference from "The Sopranos" — from two companies that had business before the state.
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A teenage identical twin with developmental delays has been charged with the murder of her toddler brother, and the sordid tragedy has attracted not only the attention of the media but also a busload of spectators from a nearby retirement community who attend the trial.
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The couple and their families pay dearly for the false accusation, and it wasn't hard for me to connect their sense of injustice to the long and sordid history of black men falsely accused of rape (and often paying for it with their lives).
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" "When a top law-enforcement figure makes a public cry for the world to come and be famous by telling their sordid story, true or not, it inherently invites people to create revisionist history and put a different label on simple fan rockstar encounters.
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Obama was more candid than most, reminding Americans that the quality of our democracy depends on us—on our capacity to reason and to empathize, our attachment to facts, our willingness to get our hands dirty even when the political game seems sordid or futile.
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This super-stretchy wearable feels like a second skin and can record dataGoogle is using the impending death of its blob emoji to promote AlloNokia 8 revealed in leaked images with dual-camera Zeiss optics It's the latest episode in a long and sordid saga.
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Deliberately lying about something as critical to our democratic institutions as the integrity of our election system specifically to erode the public's trust in them is dangerous, irresponsible, and echoes the sordid history of many an autocrat laying the groundwork for their eventual dismantling.
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Tyrnauer, to judge from the quotes that he uses to frame his story, wants to cast Roy Cohn—the crooked New York lawyer whose sordid career was a common thread linking Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and eventually Trump—as the personification of evil.
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David Chandler, a professor emeritus at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, who has written several books about Cambodian history, said that the bombings were a "deeply sordid" chapter in American history but that they did not do much to advance the Khmer Rouge's cause.
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Set during the height of the studio system, The Fade Out dives into the underbelly of the golden age of Hollywood and turns up a sordid tale of sex, murder, and influence, all set against the backdrop of the looming Red Scare and Hollywood blacklist.
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That the new Suspiria is set among a contemporary dance troupe in a Berlin recovering from a war, grasped by an imposed rule, cowering from terror attacks, and grappling with its own sordid history makes for a perfect place to explore those same motifs.
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Only then "will people finally escape the raging waters that drown so many, either victims of the drug trade or those who stand before God with their hands drenched in blood, though with pockets filled with sordid money and their consciences deadened," he said.
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We were pretty upset when in April Blizzard demanded Nostalrius cease-and-desist, but after a sordid and convoluted series of events, it seems that it's this dedicated community of players itself that will bring about the end of this noble effort, not a faceless corporation.
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There is also no evidence that the work Fusion did for Prevezon Holdings and the Russians was related to the Trump "dossier," which was crafted by a former MI-6 agent named Christopher Steele and made various sordid and still uncorroborated allegations about President Donald Trump.
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The country's Parliament set yet another sordid example last week when Member of Parliament Che Mohamad Zulkifly Jusoh, during a debate on amending domestic violence laws, said husbands were 'abused' when wives threw insults, withheld sex and denied consent for Muslim men to take another wife.
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The final episode of "Boardwalk Empire," a series about the sordid yet bustling history of an historic beach town, aired in October 2014, a month after the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for the fifth, and final, time.
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Now that the comic has been adapted for TV with Riverdale — though let's just say this isn't your normal comic-to-TV move, the show's much darker than the lighthearted source material — you can expect that sordid love triangle to play out in a whole new way.
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And surely 10 Cloverfield Lane should get some points for the sheer ballsiness of that ending, which ramps up the energy and the action instead of letting it trail off to a whimper, and expands the story past a sordid little tale of kidnapping and murder.
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K2 passed along those sordid details, including that Gutierrez once attended a party hosted by disgraced former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and that she was accused by Italian investigators of engaging in prostitution, to the Manhattan district attorney's office — which subsequently grilled her on those details.
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Kevin Kerslake's documentary "As I AM: The Life and Time$ of DJ AM" is a breathless, cautionary account of a phenom who conquered the electronic dance-music scenes on the West Coast and in Las Vegas and New York, only to meet a sordid demise at 36.
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The legitimization of Moore, a candidate who is surrounded by such sordid allegations and whose record on so many key social issues is far beyond the boundaries of acceptable, reflects how far some members of the party have been willing to go to appeal to the base.
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The offer represents Rupert Murdoch and his son James's second stab at Sky after the bid made in 2010 fell apart following the sordid phone hacking scandal at the now-defunct News of the World newspaper which had resided within the family's stable of media assets.
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And make no mistake, WWE looms large over this entire sordid situation: the money to be gained from the Hardys showing up in the indies pales in comparison to the cut Impact could demand from a potential (and likely, though not yet certain) contract from WWE.
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" David Segal, executive director of the liberal advocacy group Demand Progress described the proposed deal as a "noxious corporate takeover," and added that "when it comes to the Big Cable industry and its sordid track record, consumers want greater competition in the marketplace, not more mergers.
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A 2016 report painted a sordid and sensational portrait of the personal relationship involving the inmates — David Sweat and Richard Matt — and a besotted prison worker, Joyce Mitchell, who helped the two men break out of Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, N.Y., near the Canadian border.
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What matters most to me about this sordid tale is the way it fits into a pattern of behavior and a Trump worldview about women: that they are mere objects and opportunities, a reward owed to men of wealth, and that objections and protestations are invalid.
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As his son, Vince McMahon, Jr., took the reins from his father (a somewhat sordid tale in itself, saved for the next installment), the WWF entered one of its most difficult phases as corruption and charges of steroid use pervaded the already colored world of professional wrestling.
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The "Flipping Out" lawsuit, sad and sordid, falls 31 years after a far more consequential surrogacy debate: The "Baby M" case, in which a surrogate mother, Mary Beth Whitehead, changed her mind after the birth and sued — ultimately unsuccessfully — for the right to keep her child.
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But Doctorow turns the true story inside out: As he filters their experiences through 20th-century American history, his novel captures the men's voices and consciousness, pushing past the sordid details of their living conditions to reveal brothers who are, even in their isolation, stalwart companions.
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He argued that the aestheticization of the humble act of drinking tea — "the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence" — must be understood as an ethos underlying an entire culture, from its arts and literature to the "delicate dishes" of its cuisine.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The auction of one of the world's earliest and most sordid erotic novels — the Marquis de Sade's "120 Days of Sodom" — has been halted after the French state declared it a national treasure and said it could not be sold to a foreign buyer.
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It's easy to point to WeWork's potentially 5503%+ valuation drop, its looming layoffs, the firing of its CEO, and the seeming compression of a whole heck of a lot of investors and employee equity as a sordid disaster tale of capitalism, and venture capitalism in particular.
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Kitchen sink drama is having an affair and saying "I'm having an affair," it's shagging in a car park and laddering your tights as you pull them back up, it's smoking a fag with shaking hands and it's sordid goings-on in a Travelodge off the M1.
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As you might expect from a field that prides itself on internal error correction, scientists worried about becoming overtly political, and then rightly worried about their own internal politics—a history of exclusion of women and people of color, colonialism, a sordid past with the military and industry.
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For one thing, Google has to overcome a long and sordid history of Android apps that are little more than blown-up phone apps on big screens — and it's an open question whether a big education install base will be the push developers need to update their apps.
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One of the judges presiding over the trial, Ricardo González, said during the ruling, "I do not see in the videos anything other than a raw and uninhibited sexual relationship in a sordid environment," arguing that the victim's face didn't look like that of a woman being assaulted.
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The Casual Vacancy is a slog, but the three published Robert Galbraith books are playful in a way that the first few Harry Potter books are playful: They giddily romp their way through gritty, sordid murder mysteries, unabashedly reveling in the tortured cool-guy mystique of detective Cormoran Strike.
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Mr. Kapadia's "Amy" uses extensive amateur video footage culled from a range of sources to create a painfully candid account of the British singer Amy Winehouse's rise and fall; Mr. Baker's "Tangerine" is a blithely sordid, ultimately touching slapstick comedy shot with three iPhones and a Steadicam rig.
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The core principles of internal value sort of lose all meaning as soon as they become about tricking someone, but if you're going to take anything away from this whole sordid little handbook, perhaps it should be: You don't have to "do" anything to attract a girl. Nah.
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The man who was allegedly caught texting about molesting children while on a Southwest Airlines flight last week had made multiple sordid and graphic plans with the woman he was messaging — who admitted to sexually abusing and secretly recording two children — according to a federal complaint unsealed on Monday.
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From the jump, it's not hard to imagine this sordid saga as a future Netflix true-crime series—it squarely fits into America's true-crime obsession, and has the hallmarks of a Lynchian slaying, a trope found in myths and classical literature dropped into the most domestic situations.
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He was a prolific writer, famous, among other things, for inventing the true crime novel and for writing a serialized roman à clef so scandalous that he had to abandon it halfway through or risk being dropped by his wealthy friends after he revealed all their sordid secrets.
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Similarly, as the truth continues to emerge about the sordid story of Russia's aggressive attacks against American democracy, the American people soon and historians in the longer term will harshly judge the absurd and ridiculous failure of Trump to think clearly and speak honestly about Putin and Russia.
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All told, it's plenty binge-able, although there's nothing here that reaches the heights of the best "Black Mirror" has to offer, including the recent Emmy winner "San Junipero" or the signature "The National Anthem," which involved a kidnapper making a sordid blackmail demand of the British Prime Minister.
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It's a long and unexpectedly sordid tale in which an Australian media conglomerate sought to digitize its 7,000,19603-image photo archive, shipped it all to Little Rock for that purpose, and lost hold of it when the scanning company was raided by the FBI in an unrelated matter.
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The smarter path, to which a certain amount of liberal punditry and Democratic strategizing is already pointing, is to focus on Trumpian corruption, the sleazy, sordid, self-dealing side of his administration and the obvious reluctance of congressional Republicans to execute more than a cursory sort of oversight.
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Of all the moments from the sordid affair, there's a smaller one that feels as intriguing and ripe for virality as anything else that happened: the time Bill Clinton allegedly wore a tie Lewinsky had gifted him on the day she testified before a grand jury in the Ken Starr investigation.
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With his campaign in free fall after the release of video showing him boasting about how he can grope women with impunity because he is a "star," Trump seems determined to introduce the seediest, most sordid details of a flurry of half-forgotten Clinton scandals to a new millennial audience.
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The arrest marks the end of a sordid story that began in 1999 when people who said they had been abused by Shaw and Cravitz as children went to authorities and said they were worried that three other children still living with the couple would also be molested, Costello said.
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In fact, it's Jeremiah Claflin, the chief justice himself, who's about to be smeared by Slander Sheet, a sordid gossip website claiming that a Las Vegas casino magnate, the grateful recipient of a recent favorable court judgment, has been picking up Claflin's tab for the services of an upmarket escort service.
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Sophal Ear, the author of Aid Dependence in Cambodia: How Foreign Assistance Undermines Democracy, told me that officials in Cambodia—which is routinely ranked as one of the most corrupt countries in the world—have a rich and sordid history of selling off licenses for dubious activities to the highest bidder.
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LONDON — The writings, etched in dark ink on a small scroll, tell the sordid story of four debauched aristocrats who lock themselves away in a castle to play out their wildest sexual fantasies, which run the gamut from orgies and animals to torture — including placing a firework up a bottom.
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"The combination of Altria's sordid history of spending billions to entice kids to smoke, and Juul's breathtaking success at hooking a new generation of children on nicotine, could mark an historic setback for lifesaving tobacco control efforts," Nancy Brown, the chief executive of the American Heart Association, said in a statement.
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The sordid list — a mixture of facts, accusations and insinuations, packaged in a glossy slide show — represents the crux of a well-orchestrated campaign by Goldman Sachs to discredit one of its former partners and to minimize the Wall Street bank's role in the looting of a big Malaysian investment fund.
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When the corrupt, sordid details of the spoils system were laid bare for the American people in the aftermath of Garfield's assassination, Congress had little choice but to take action, despite the fact that proponents of the spoils system, called spoilsmen, had spent decades stonewalling any attempts at civil service reform.
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In "Paterno" on HBO, Al Pacino plays the coach like a wounded bull, at once bewildered by his implication in the sordid events and defiantly defensive that his own actions were sufficient as investigators unmask Sandusky's crimes against young boys, some of which took place in the university's locker-room showers.
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Still, Woods had been playing better and better since last year's Masters, after a decade in the weeds with injuries (most notably his back, on which he'd had four surgeries), painkiller addiction, the collapse of his marriage, and the subsequent sordid revelations of all the philandering that had occasioned it.
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" Former &aposReal Housewives&apos Star Alexis Bellino&aposs Husband Files for Divorce The pair -- who share three children, James, Melania and Mackenna -- said that, in spite of the "negative discussion" and speculation regarding the reasons for their split, that there is "nothing provocative, alluring, or sordid about the dissolution of our marriage.
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What is clear is that Uber's promises to make this a priority follow a long and sordid trail of alleged sexual harassment at its offices, an instance when senior executives tried to smear a rape victim in India, and forcing lawsuits brought by women who alleged they were assaulted by drivers into arbitration.
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It looks like she'll have to come clean about her "sordid past," and if she's looking for any pointers on that score, she might check in with her sis, who had to run the same gantlet years back with Matthew (and who is meanwhile, with agonizing slowness, piecing together the Marigold puzzle).
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In the latest chapter of the sordid narrative of Trump's ties to Russia, CNN reported last night that White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus asked FBI officials to deny stories of the Trump campaign's alleged contacts with Russian sources—in violation of longstanding regulations regarding White House communications on pending investigations.
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When the FBI pulled back the curtain from the sordid dealings of former Trump campaign chairman Paul ManafortPaul John ManafortTrial of ex-Obama White House counsel suddenly postponed Top Mueller probe prosecutor to join Georgetown Law as lecturer DOJ releases notes from official Bruce Ohr's Russia probe interviews MORE, they found Ukrainians aplenty.
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According to papers filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan, prosecutors want to play for the jury sexually graphic footage, lasting about 20 minutes, of four lap dances recorded at the club, and to offer testimony about other sordid goings-on, like drug use, that the authorities say occurred at the club.
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The timing, however, is fortuitous in a different respect, in that Cuomo is undergoing his own sordid racial controversy: One of his most generous donors, a hedge fund manager who runs the controversial Success Academy chain of charter schools, attacked state Senator Andrea Stewart-Collins over her support for teachers' unions last week.
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Then consider a third possibility: "Crassus," the story of how a sordid real-estate speculator made a vast fortune as a Roman slumlord, rode both slave labor and the fear of slave rebellions to political influence, and leveraged his wealth to a share of power alongside his more dashing frenemies, Pompey and Caesar.
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Now, all these things paint a sordid state of affairs (especially the part where he is president of the United States), but how many of these traits can be accurately applied to Tim Cook and his work at Apple—specifically his role at Apple Music, which Axl Rose seems to be alluding to here?
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More from the letter: JUUL's decision to team up with Altria, the parent company of Philip Morris USA, is also bad news for children considering that Altria has a long and sordid history of spending billions to entice children to smoke through targeted campaigns that intentionally lied about the science and health effects from cigarettes.
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It gives room for a broader view, where you meet the woman who wants a sugar daddy with a rifle in his truck ("Sugar Daddy") or one who reckons with a sordid family history on a turnip farm ("5 Acres of Turnips") or another who wrestles with how to handle an incarcerated relative( "Commissary").
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Robert Lipsyte in the New York Times Magazine in 1971, after Ali returned to boxing after being banned due to his opposition to the draft and just before his famous fight with Frazier: He feels superior to boxing, a gift to boxing, a hero of history who has temporarily ennobled a sordid and ungrateful sport.
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Their wet work to discredit Christine Blasey Ford will have to be outsourced and done mostly outside the hearing room; consider the sordid, outrageous attempt by Ed Whelan — a friend of Brett Kavanaugh's who heads a prominent conservative think tank on, ahem, ethics — to throw suspicion on a look-alike classmate at Georgetown Prep.
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But that carefully cultivated image of a caring, progressive Renaissance man came crashing down on Monday night after the publication of an expose by The New Yorker, detailing allegations of a sordid and stomach-turning double life, including Mr. Schneiderman's physical and psychological abuse of four women with whom he had been romantically involved.
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From Cooper and Jonathan's feud over love and power to Maureen's eating disorder to the rather sordid business of securing donations for the ballet from lonely widows — not to mention the sometimes cutthroat competition between dancers — Center Stage pulled up the tutu just a bit to hint at the complex machinations behind the spectacle.
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The fate of the Pruitt-Igoe development reminds of the fates of the rest of the work in the exhibition, with the remains of one ill-fated structure going on to facilitate the building of another with its remains, introducing the ghosts of the past into rejuvenated constructions meant to erase the sordid history of their predecessors.
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This sort of historical analysis places the MMA in line with the practices of other institutions that are lately taking steps to reach more diverse audiences, become more inclusive, and acknowledge the sometimes sordid pasts of objects in their collections, thus moving the art museum toward the goal of making their visitors more representative of the general population.
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Rieff includes a sobering reminder that for a long time American memory cherished the Confederate South's "lost cause" and incited new violence, but it would be remarkable to conclude from this example that people should strive to forget the whole sordid episode rather than to debate with one another about how to remember it most justifiably.
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The rally was disgusting and shocking, but not surprising to those who'd read the weekend volley of racist tweets that initiated this particular news cycle nor to those who recall the 2016 campaign's Muslim ban, the blood libels about "the caravan" that stalked the 2018 midterms, or anything else from Trump's long and sordid history of racial demagoguery.
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The sordid nature of the actual events -- which culminated in Dee Dee's murder, after victimizing her daughter by convincing Gypsy and the world that the girl was ill, a form of abuse known as Munchhausen by proxy -- is captured reasonably well in Lifetime's version, which isn't as compelling as the documentary but still proves watchable and unsettling.
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Yeah, it's kind of like the adult baby thing, like how it's totally sweet and wholesome and just people acknowledging a kind of left-of-field thing that makes them feel good but then there's also a bit of a sinister undertone, because it does seem sexual and a little bit sordid at times…Yeah, fetishy.
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The sentencing completed the sordid downfall of the New York Democrat, whose penchant for exchanging lewd messages and photos with young women online destroyed his career in Congress in 2011, doomed his bid for mayor of New York in 2013, wrecked his marriage to Clinton's closest aide, Huma Abedin, and became entangled in the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Many have been living for months in a distressing limbo in sordid refugee camps on the mainland and on Greek islands near Turkey, unable to move to countries where they hoped to seek asylum, and with no means or motivation to return to Syria, Iraq or other countries from which they fled war or economic hardship.
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With the apparent "no collusion" conclusion to the Robert Mueller investigation, there will now be a retreat from this alternative reality to more defensible terrain — the terrain where Trump is a sordid figure who admires despots and surrounded himself with hacks and two-bit crooks while his campaign was buoyed by a foreign power's hack of his opponent.
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And now, as the criminal trial for Cosby's alleged sexual assault of Andrea Constand comes to a close, those who doubt that the man who used to sling Puddin' Pops could have also been an extremely prolific date rapist seem more convinced than ever that this entire sordid ordeal is just another example of white America tearing down strong black men.
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As I reflected on the murder of 32-year-old paralegal Heather Hayer, and the brutal injuries Natalie Romero, a University of Virginia sophomore suffered after 20-year-old white supremacist and domestic violence abuser James Alex Fields Jr. drove into a crowd of counter-protesters, I was haunted by the memory of my friend's revelation of his sordid past.
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Or he could provide evidence to suggest he was guilty of the arguably lesser, or at least more explicable in a blundering political amateur, offence of obstructing justice by leaning on and sacking Mr Comey in a bid to cover up the sordid, but not treasonous, sorts of collusion between his advisers and Russians that have already come to light.
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Although some of the older films included in this year's event are widely available, this is an opportunity to watch new restorations; if you have never seen Edgar G. Ulmer's sordid 1945 classic "Detour," about a two-bit loser waylaid by one of the most unrelievedly feral women in film noir, this is a fine opportunity to let it freak you out.
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In an increasing trend, however, we have had Gerald Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon, George H.W. Bush's notorious, and probably self-exculpatory, Iran-contra pardons (encouraged by his attorney general, William Barr), the sordid pardon by Bill Clinton of the fugitive financier Marc Rich that you cite, George W. Bush's commutation of Scooter Libby's prison sentence and now Mr. Trump.
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NEW YORK — A federal appeals court panel signaled Wednesday that it is strongly inclined to set in motion a process likely to expose more sordid details in the politically charged scandal surrounding Jeffrey Epstein, the wealthy financier and philanthropist whose relatively cushy plea deal on underage-sex charges a decade ago has become a political liability for Labor Secretary Alex Acosta.
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Read more:Your favorite YouTubers and vloggers may be using these special cameras with built-in skin-smoothing features in their videos, and you likely have no idea#JamesCharlesIsOverParty started trending after people heard the YouTube star sing the N-word along to a song on his Instagram storyPeople love this Instagram account that follows the sordid drama of Barbie dolls.
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Had you wandered into the congressional hearing without knowing an extra 157 people were now dead as a result, you'd have assumed Dan Carey, a pilot and labor leader whose small effort to check the power of a corporate behemoth had been rewarded with a lost reelection campaign two weeks earlier, was in fact the most unscrupulous character in the whole sordid affair.
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