True to form, it was a tawdry and bitter affair.
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The tawdry story line and Ms. Abedin's closeness to Mrs.
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Once it might have meant tawdry scandal or legal shenanigans.
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TE: Yes, and they still find sumo wrestling tawdry but amusing.
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It's brutal, lucrative, tawdry, spectacular, amazing, and full of delicious snacks.
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They contained no evidence of lawbreaking, major hypocrisy or tawdry scandal.
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I hope some statesmen will be revealed in this tawdry mess.
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Instead, he produced something deeply flawed and tawdry, rather than substantial.
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That was too vulgar and tawdry for someone with his refined sensibilities.
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Sure. Because you're describing his behavior, which is fairly described as tawdry.
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The author of A Warning promises to be above such tawdry gossip.
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Why does he insist on doing interviews with tawdry British tabloid outlets?
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She had no right to her tawdry curiosity, or to her righteousness.
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I found it exhilarating, depressing, tawdry and moving in almost equal measure.
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So instead of a grand send-off, Mugabe had a tawdry one.
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"I became a collector of all this tawdry used signage," he said.
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At its core, the Daniels story isn't about tawdry details of infidelity.
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Were there things you did to make your representation more realistic, less tawdry?
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It includes porn stars, hush money, caught-on-tape crudeness and tawdry tabloids.
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Could even a tawdry supermarket tabloid be worthy of a gushy, nostalgic tribute?
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It's a tawdry subject executed with a lot of sincerity, which I admire.
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The crime was producing coverage considered tawdry, overblown and blameful of the victim.
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Bermey took pictures, which looked so tawdry I was embarrassed to share them.
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The murder took place around Christmas 1908, and was both brutal and tawdry.
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This is why TV rape scenes are so often clumsy or even tawdry.
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What made him think that if you told his story it wouldn't be tawdry?
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How does a show about the allure of tawdriness keep from being tawdry itself?
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It was disorientating to witness such tawdry politics at such a potentially momentous moment.
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Instead of breaking for commercial, producers displayed the argument in a tawdry split screen.
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On both sides, the spat is vintage Trump: tawdry, cruel, vindictive and highly personal.
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But our tawdry domestic politics undermines these natural advantages by corroding our global standing.
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One after another, there were tawdry roadside wonders like Monkey Jungles and Reptile Gardens.
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After his involvement in this "tawdry episode," however, they recommend that he stand aside.
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The tawdry divorce of Libbie and David Mugrabi is not just a tabloid story.
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But our concern is not with tawdry tales of Ferraris, Rolexes, and ball gowns.
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Still, tawdry as it has been, the Bentley saga has its heroes, and its morals.
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It was more tawdry, more personal, and nastier that any political event I've ever witnessed.
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He ended up acting not as a Platonic guardian but as a rather tawdry cheerleader.
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If history didn't have a way of repeating itself, the tawdry battle of King vs.
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Ms. Ivey became governor in 2017 after a tawdry scandal led to Robert Bentley's resignation.
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Were and are we a force for good, or might we be tarnished and tawdry?
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In future years, Kennedy's tawdry behavior became well known, including his solicitation of underage girls.
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This was no tawdry secret; Alistair's former partner had been present at Penny and his wedding.
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It's incredibly tawdry, and as someone who loves 90-Day Fiancé, my bar is pretty high.
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What remains is a tawdry and tedious shadow (pun not intended) of American Gods Season 1.
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Was the video, which features naked replicas of multiple celebrities asleep in bed together, tawdry trash?
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No gambit is too tawdry and no accusation too speculative, not if the television cameras approve.
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He engages in what some might call tawdry rhetorical wars with his critics and political adversaries.
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There were moments when the debate devolved into the tawdry details of the candidates' personal lives.
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Now, the bigger question: Has our culture reached its limit with the invasive and the tawdry?
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Also, she actually knows the tawdry parts, and you can't have a juicy biography without those.
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Though Mr. Kaplan's backdrops are splendidly picturesque, the stage's wings are designed like tawdry interior décor.
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Few of us will ever read Rybka's tawdry memoir, because the English translation was never published.
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No matter what revelations come to mind, some of these comments were so tawdry and almost childish.
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Reality television, for lazy media critics and beltway pundits alike, is shorthand pejorative for tawdry and cheap.
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The Clintons were a package deal, and that deal included a legacy of tawdry, shocking sexual scandal.
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It has been described as one of the most contentious, tawdry and angry presidential elections in history.
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What happens next is tawdry, predictable, queasy-making and also frequently funny, though not for the Swensons.
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My dotty building was home not only to the tawdry and the drunken, but also the homicidal.
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These tawdry events have disturbed at least one of United's institutional shareholders: the City of Tamarac, Fla.
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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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There's just something about these synths and this bass groove that smacks of late nights and tawdry tales.
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A tawdry divorce, a DUI and years and years of injuries, surgeries and failed treatments sent sponsors scurrying.
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At least Leatherwood can try to explain this entire tawdry affair — and what it means for season 3.
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When they visit Las Vegas and stay at Caesar's Palace, she gazes in wonder at the tawdry casino.
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With their tired tropes about spiralling downwards and the "tawdry self-congratulation" of recovery, such stories defy originality.
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By crosscutting a crime of passion with a street singer's performance, Renoir elevates tawdry melodrama to something operatic.
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But no foreign intervention was necessary to make the race the most tawdry affair in modern American history.
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As the quality of its releases went down, Acclaim began relying on creative but often tawdry publicity stunts.
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None of its ballerinas can ever be a great interpreter of "Swan Lake" in the company's tawdry production.
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Rather, it felt to them like the latest episode in a tawdry political sideshow with seemingly endless chapters.
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Meanwhile, Wei Bu's classmate Huang Ling (Wang Yuwen) is involved in a tawdry relationship with a school administrator.
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" Screw it up Hagan did, according to Wenner, who has called the final product "deeply flawed and tawdry.
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But the tawdry tale suggests that there was plenty of blame to go around, including the Sheriffs Dept.
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For that, you can put up with just about any amount of tawdry shilling for "The Masked Singer."
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This is an intentional inversion of noir's aesthetics, but it works because the sunshine here is tawdry, cheap.
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Linda really knows how to use her body to communicate in an elegant way, never cheap and tawdry.
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The potential modern equivalents were all there: a little tawdry, a little tongue-in-cheek, very hard to miss.
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"The tawdry orca sideshows and despicable spying tactics are sinking SeaWorld's ship," said Tracy Reiman, PETA's executive vice president.
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Who looks at tawdry, terrifying Elizabeth Taylor and ruined, smoldering Richard Burton and says, aha, those fun-loving besties?
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Jaded and love-wary nomads from every nation have sought out Paris's tawdry offerings and singular institutions of pleasure.
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If you recognize those films, you might find yourself mildly diverted by this tawdry, occasionally effective shock-delivery device.
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The settings tended to be a bit tawdry; you got the feeling the physicians were on their last hurrah.
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That opened the door for Donald Trump and his minions to ratchet up their tawdry "lock her up" campaign.
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The first time Anne Fadiman got drunk was not at a debauched frat party or a tawdry dive bar.
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With a name like his, you'd think former Congressman Anthony Weiner would avoid anything sexually tawdry at every possible cost.
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That being said, for anyone chomping at the bit for tawdry details or scandalous confessions will have to cool it.
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The striking back story of Mr. Burke's rise is matched only by the narrative of his sudden and tawdry fall.
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Up until the end, that trailer just seemed like a tone-deaf trailer that used violence in a tawdry way.
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He didn't vote for Clinton's impeachment, saying his affair was "tawdry" but the behavior didn't warrant being ousted from office.
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The mac and cheese is kind of wonderful in a gooey, tawdry way, but other forays into Americana are worrisome.
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But it's sad to see these artists sacrificed to a fantasy this tawdry and to technology that isn't even exciting.
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Since its publication over four decades ago, it has been reliably controversial, but not because it is tawdry, or vulgar.
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As if by some universal law of media physics, then, the Naughty Nineties have imploded to become the Tawdry Teens.
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The whole thing was tawdry, and yet two years later the Republicans controlled the presidency and both houses of Congress.
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His idea of family time was to splurge on steak and Scotch on the rocks, and to tell tawdry jokes.
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There is no longer any way to deny the fact of the payment and the nature of the tawdry story.
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The suits that look so tawdry in those photos might be exactly what Manafort needs to feel powerful in court.
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The episode dragged on for 43 months and included tawdry details about the McDonnell's difficult marriage and Maureen McDonnell's volcanic outbursts.
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Writer Sarah Phelps has taken considerable liberties with the original story, and there are plenty of tawdry elements baked into it.
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The aesthetic is tawdry, like seventies public access; but the true horror is that Ripa, too, can't escape this ugly spectacle.
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The stories were tawdry, and the news coverage sometimes veered toward clickbait, but there were important questions hiding beneath the sheets.
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The biggest problem for the musical adapters thus becomes selling an essentially tawdry tale minus Ms. Roberts's lewdness-proof, megawatt charm.
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Mr. Musafar saw body modification as a transcendent experience, not a tawdry thrill, and viewed himself as a shaman and teacher.
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The case has made surprisingly few ripples since, considering the tawdry and scandalous allegations being leveled against the 2011 NBA MVP.
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When Comey got to the tawdry details contained in the dossier, Trump became defensive, cutting him off and denying the allegations.
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Not long afterward, The Post prepared an article exploring competing theories about the motivation behind the publication of the tawdry tale.
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When Hulk Hogan's sex tape first surfaced online in 2012, it became instant fodder for late-night punchlines and tawdry internet gossip.
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LAS VEGAS — The most tawdry presidential fight in recent memory will host its final debate tonight in an appropriate place: Sin City.
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It's disturbing that someone in such a privileged position would use it for such tawdry and selfish purposes, but not really surprising.
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And contrary to Brian the waiter's assertion, plenty of people in Blackpool love its tawdry shimmer and do not want to leave.
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A former host of "The Man Show" and an exponent of tawdry humor, he once seemed unlikely to become a liberal darling.
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In 2005, Mr. Hefner's reality show, "The Girls Next Door," became a tawdry hit and introduced a new generation to the property.
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His tawdry encounter with a young White House intern resonated because it echoed reports about philandering that long had dogged his career.
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Dynamic tensions between order and chaos are part of a precisely executed vision of a world that is both tawdry and violent.
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And it turned outright problematic last season when the show seemed to eschew true character or narrative developments in lieu of tawdry manipulation.
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Yet for all the unease and scepticism, this rather tawdry agreement may be Europe's last chance of regaining some control over the crisis.
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The good news for his colleagues (and audiences) is that Hildy is clearly hooked for life on the tawdry thrills of the chase.
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He reveals what makes a person feel lost—the perverse and tawdry elements that define people as castoffs in a skewed American landscape.
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These tawdry details, and the psychological complexities that surround them, are the core of "The Jinx," which was 10 years in the making.
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Dov Charney, the company's founder, had recently been ousted by the board after tawdry allegations of misconduct, and the business was hemorrhaging money.
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A riveting six-month trial ensued, dominated by clashing accounts of tawdry greed and filial devotion delivered by boldface names and household help.
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The anecdotes assembled to illuminate the firm's shady practices — and to give context to Ellen's predicament — would make for tawdry and depressing reading.
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After all the revelations about what a tawdry mess he'd made of his personal life, his golf game also went off the rails.
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But no matter, if it's negative for the president, tawdry or otherwise, it gets eaten up by commentators like seagulls at the beach.
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What Saint Phalle, who died in 2002, left behind in Tuscany is dazzling or deranged, transcendent or tawdry, depending on whom you ask.
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There is a strong legal case that even in the context of a political campaign, paying hush money, while tawdry, is not illegal.
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The corruption of the electoral college need not be that tawdry or thorough to inspire worries about the future legitimacy of America's presidential contests.
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This is nothing but a cheap, National Enquirer-esque tale spun by a delusional person whose hunger for fame is both tawdry and transparent.
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But, unlike some will have you think, this story isn't a big deal because it's pushing politics in a "tawdry and celebrity-oriented" direction.
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On a superficial level, the movie is a tawdry tale of marital discord in which Mojdeh and Morteza go at it tooth and nail.
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The clothes, narrow and simple in silhouette, combine tawdry fabrics like python-printed leather, stockinette knit, tarnished sequins and various layers of shredded schmattes.
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Yet however tawdry Mr. Zuma may be, the long-governing A.N.C. must be held equally responsible for the culture of corruption, cynicism and patronage.
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She could take the tawdry parts and make them seem almost tasteful, or at least forgivable, using nothing but her magic wand of words.
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No other White House — no business, except maybe a wholly owned and rather tawdry and occasionally bankrupt casino operation — would be run this way.
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Last week, in opening statements, prosecutors offered tawdry details about what they said were Mr. Weinstein's assaults on women; graphic testimony from witnesses followed.
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And daily, the latest details of each Trump tweet, tawdry presidential tales from Stormy Daniels and the Russia investigations in Washington lead the news.
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For one of the most beautiful men in the world, he somehow made a tuxedo look tawdry and drab — more adult prom than prestigious gala.
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John Roberts wrote for a unanimous Supreme Court in 2015 that "tawdry tales of Ferraris, Rolexes, and ball gowns" weren't enough to send Virginia Gov.
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They should have been wearing jack boots in their tawdry stunt to block what is essentially a grand jury hearing with Republicans present to participate.
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Some scoff at Toutiao's sometimes tawdry machine-generated mix; a Hong Kong-based analyst says the algorithm seems to cater to "the lowest common denominator".
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The tawdry side of Bill Clinton's past ranges from his acknowledged sexual relations with White House intern Monica Lewinsky to alleged affairs, groping and rape.
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They were pulled off stage by a pair of female police officers in tawdry outfits, who, of course, turned out to be strippers as well.
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At least for the duration of "Sorry to Bother You," capitalism feels evil but also tawdry and preposterous, and labor solidarity seems sexy and exuberant.
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When, toward the end, a switch is thrown to reveal just how tawdry and shabby the seemingly golden Studio really is, it's hardly a shock.
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But if they don't perform Shakespeare or even Arthur Wing Pinero must they star in tawdry Jazz Age inanities like Julie's (fictional) vehicle "Tickled Pink"?
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Meanwhile, nicknames like Langford's seem intended both to belittle and sensationalise the fighter, using race in a tawdry effort to exploit the prejudices of the crowd.
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In sharp contrast, Colbert's tawdry attacks on the institution of the presidency belong in a barroom comedy club or on cable rather than on network television.
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The trial, as tawdry and tabloidesque as it often was, had a certain gravity, a moral seriousness that to some extent justified and mitigated the spectacle.
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In any other year, the following criminal indictments, tawdry revelations and appalling scandals -- presented here in no particular order -- would have dominated their news cycles easily.
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Will it do a better job of showcasing the most important issues in this election and be less a spectacle of "character attacks" and "tawdry allegations"?
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Maybe it's that we shouldn't judge a song by its most tawdry interpretations, just as we shouldn't shame a large-assed reindeer just because he's different.
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On Wednesday, NBC's Matt Lauer showed how that's done — by recasting Clinton's tawdry, but fundamentally normal, behaviors as shocking while recasting Trump's shocking behaviors as normal.
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That would be then-CIA director David Petraeus, who pleaded guilty to one count of removing and retaining classified information in conjunction with a tawdry affair.
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Then on February 24th a team of 32 organisers resigned from the National Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine (NPBCU), throwing the festival of tawdry pop into doubt.
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Was Alicia Florrick a stand-in for Silda Wall Spitzer, the wife of Elliott Spitzer, former New York governor who was caught doing tawdry things with prostitutes?
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The comic laid into 45's unbecoming behavior and tawdry tastes, presenting them as a counterpoint to Bush Jr.'s own oafishness in and out of office.
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That's especially true in primetime, during which network news magazines continue to tilt toward true crime and tawdry tales of missing persons and spouses killing each other.
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Above all, they were obsessed with the tawdry details, including the years of information that would come out with Jackson's family and estate sued Murray in 2011.
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If Russia is responsible, the aim might be to portray American democracy as tawdry and flawed, rather than, more ambitiously, to swing the contest for Mr Trump.
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With one Medium riposte, Bezos has turned a tawdry tabloid scandal into a gripping, time-stamped drama stretching from scenes in the White House to Saudi Arabia.
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Jon and Dany would never spot his hidden motivations without help, but Tyrion knows Jaime's tawdry secret, and he knows just as well that Cersei is pregnant.
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The world inhabited by the title character of "Gloria Bell" is neither as glamorous nor as tawdry as those in some of the other female-driven selections.
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It landed a little flat to hear the tawdry verse of the conventional Democrat being sung by the candidate who started out talking about Big Structural Change.
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Ted Kennedy has not passed into the public domain in this sense, so one tampers with his life at the peril of turning it into tawdry melodrama.
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"Although that affair with Stormy was consensual, it was tawdry because he was married and had an infant and because she is a porn star," she said.
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Jim fills in the tawdry back story for the audience, detailing what most accounts of the movie characterize as an affair between a student and a teacher.
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But the essential one, of Cora and Stella and Ransome, never reads as tawdry or tiresome, largely because all parties have plenty of love to go around.
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The temporary hiatus played out in the media for weeks, with tawdry headlines, mounting accusations and near certainty within the industry that this season would never air.
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Why you should watch: If you passed over "Hustlers" as a tawdry film that was simply about sexy strippers, you have the STX film pegged all wrong.
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That would be cheap and tawdry, and would lower diplomacy to the worst of all suspicions that America, through its diplomatic missions, is bought and paid for.
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Jim fills in the tawdry back story for the audience, detailing what most accounts of the movie characterize as an affair between a student and a teacher.
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"Although that affair with Stormy was consensual, it was tawdry because he was married and had an infant and because she is a porn star," the woman says.
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That pre-debate Facebook Live broadcast by Donald Trump, which combined farce, dystopia and reality-TV in three tawdry minutes, presaged the tone of the encounter that followed.
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They say it's at least as beyond the pale to chase down the creator of this tawdry video as it is to tweet it in the first place.
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One is permitted to think this tawdry conduct was inappropriate beyond the fact that it enticed prospects to Louisville in a way that Wake Forest may not have.
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You know what I mean, those generically tawdry spots off the highway in which male characters convene while decoratively underdressed women smile and serve or dance and writhe.
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But only if they achieve positions of power, so don't expect any of this to signal an oncoming tidal wave of women embroiled in tawdry scandal anytime soon.
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Some of these planets resemble the ones found in our own Solar System, while others are completely alien, exhibiting features typically found in tawdry, LSD-inspired science fiction novels.
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The show is funny, a little tawdry, dramatic, and feels like something wholly separate from The Fosters even as it builds on the strong foundation that that show provided.
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The first half of 2019 didn't deviate from this tawdry pattern: Lloyds announced a 550 million pound charge due to higher claimant volumes, roughly 10 times what analysts expected.
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Geraldo Rivera on Friday apologized to Bette Midler for "embarrassing her" during an incident in which she says he groped her, as well as for his "tawdry" 1991 memoir.
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The shoes themselves might be beautiful or they might be ugly, they might be too tight, they might cause blisters, they might look glamorous at first but tawdry later.
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In "Berlin Street Scene" (1913-14) black-clad johns and colorful streetwalkers flicker like burning driftwood as they size up one another for tawdry encounters without ever meeting eyes.
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The bits familiar from every other family trip comedy turn up with numbing predictability: the wretched hotel, the overheated minivan, the stops at tawdry roadside attractions, the vomit scene.
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I don't know what happened that night, but it was a fast trajectory from the most glamorous moment I ever had to possibly the most tawdry moment I ever had.
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Jamison is concerned from the outset that her book will not escape "the tedious architecture and tawdry self-congratulation of a redemption story"—that it will, in short, be boring.
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Her luck at the track ran out just as her health began to deteriorate; in a tawdry turn, she secretly dispatched her lover to pawn her husband's family jewels — twice.
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Mr. Romero said he avoided "Chain Saw" when it came out because the title seemed too tawdry, which is like Prince finding the sexuality of your music a bit much.
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Bezos shocked the world when he published a Medium post that recounted tawdry details of his personal life in an attempt to subdue a blackmail attempt from the National Enquirer.
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Opinion Columnist One good thing about surrounding yourself with tawdry gangsters and grifters is that if they flip on you, you can claim they have no credibility because they're criminals.
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MUSEUMS & GALLERIES This brilliantly tasteless exhibition, complete with carmine walls and velvet settees (and running through Wednesday), plunges viewers into a tawdry spiritualist Parisian collective of the late 19th century.
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Indeed, Mr. Trump's chief enablers seem utterly OK with the tawdry reports -- and they include the very people you would expect it to most deeply offend: some leading evangelical Christians.
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First conceived as the East Coast's answer to Europe's fashionable seaside resorts, its tawdry boardwalk attractions, backroom gambling establishments, and casual violence never approached the elegance of Cannes or Biarritz.
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After the financial crash, and at a time when a majority of Americans feel the economy is rigged by an elite, the collision of politics, power, money and suffering seems tawdry.
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Despite all the nastiness and the tawdry content of this presidential campaign, young people have tuned in and are only going to remain involved in the future, some of them say.
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And Margaret Atwood's novel pointedly makes Jezebel's feel cheap and tawdry, with the women all wearing worn clothes with the sequins falling off and caking their faces in dried-out makeup.
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Previous tournaments have opened with tawdry debates as to whether the coach will allow pre-game nuptials, as if all "WAGs"—wives and girlfriends—were a supporting cast of Babylonian concubines.
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Born in 1931, he grew up in Houston, a lonely child, bedridden by polio, and an avid reader of tawdry pulp magazines that specialized in bug-eyed-monsters and Venusian princesses.
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Coverage of the tawdry scandal turned up several odd nuggets, like Trump's apparent fear of sharks, but it didn't seem that significant in the grand scheme of things at the time.
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And at times, Rooney has not helped himself: the tawdry youthful indiscretions, the unseemly contract brinkmanship, the occasional on-field outburst at his own supporters, as at the 2010 World Cup.
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For Mr. Weiner, the disclosure of his tawdry communications with the girl was another in a long list of self-destructive acts that largely destroyed his marriage and his political career.
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Yet the tawdry racial history of this Republic demanded that he claim blackness as his primary identity because one drop of black blood has always decided your fate in this country.
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The public wailing and tweets about "2016 being the worst year ever" when there have been and will be worse had seemed tawdry to me, but I regret feeling that way now.
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Or would it make all his accomplishments seem tawdry, begotten at the expense of a human life, the kind of thing we simply wouldn't be able to stomach in the modern world?
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Still, his tawdry past coupled with Clinton's appeal as potentially the first woman president will make for an uphill climb as Trump looks to narrow the deficit he faces with women voters.
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It is also frightening to read, since it documents the significant sums our government spent on spy schemes as tawdry as they were ridiculous, not to mention spasmodically cruel and even murderous.
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Roth, who published the tawdry Violations of the Child Marilyn Monroe in 1962, lost a 1957 Supreme Court case that created modern obscenity doctrine, and his papers are both fascinating and detailed.
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You talk to a guy like Colin Powell in the midst of all the tawdry and awful stories about present-day politics, and you see a decorum from a very different era.
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Donald J. Trump and Hillary Clinton collided in an almost unremittingly hostile debate on Sunday night, a 90-minute spectacle of character attacks, tawdry allegations, and Mr. Trump's startling accusation that Mrs.
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Like President Donald Trump, who was the third president to get impeached, the Senate eventually acquitted Clinton — but not before a lengthy trial during which Republicans aired tawdry details of the affair.
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Subtract nostalgia from your response to the color work and consider how forced and tawdry are the seeming high spirits and the strenuous styles—hysterias of a prosperous era rushing toward smash.
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There is only one way to get to the bottom of this tawdry affair: Appoint a bipartisan, 9/11-style commission to investigate all of the allegations and issue a public report.
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This brilliantly tasteless exhibition, complete with carmine walls and blue velvet settees, plunges viewers into a spiritualist — and, let's say it, tawdry — Parisian collective of the last decade of the 19th century.
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IN THE giddy capitalist dawn of the 1990s, many of the tawdry products that stocked Soviet-bloc stores (when you could find them) were driven out by better-made, better-packaged foreign ones.
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These shameless, tawdry papers had three topics that always graced their covers: conspiracy theories surrounding the death of Princess Diana, miscellaneous speculations about "Wacko Jacko," and "new details" about the JonBenét Ramsey case.
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But the facts it uncovered point towards this being a run-of-the-mill money-making operation that used tawdry, hateful clickbait and evaded Facebook's apparently negligible protections against this kind of thing.
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It's worth noting that after that controversial fifth season — which contained other scenes that were even more borderline in terms of tawdry sexual assault — Game of Thrones tamped down its depiction of rape.
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But it was Obama's decision to largely turn the page on the Bush era once he came into office that flushed so many of the tawdry details of his administration down the memory hole.
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The queen once described 1992, a year of tawdry divorces and revelations in the royal family, as an "annus horribilis"; the death of Prince Charles's first wife, Princess Diana, in 1997 provided more trials.
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In the months since the former Fox anchor Gretchen Carlson went public with her sexual harassment lawsuit, he has produced a gusher of words that seem to nail every detail of this tawdry story.
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Now, Mr. Weiner's tawdry activities may have claimed his marriage — Ms. Abedin told him that she wanted to separate — and have cast another shadow on the adviser and confidante who has been by Mrs.
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The lawmakers, every one of them male, seemed less concerned with the alleged misconduct of a Supreme Court nominee than that a woman would drag such a tawdry subject into the halls of Congress.
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Perusing the rather tame offerings in the pristine space, it became clear that the boutique is pure promotion — not the channel's venture into the market void left by the tawdry sex shops of yesteryear.
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Yet Flaubert's early disapproval of his heroine's self-absorption, "icy charm" and vanity is curiously transformed, in the last 100 pages or so, by a softening towards, even forgiveness of, her tawdry and narcissistic escapism.
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Meanwhile, everybody else in the world is enjoying, basically their life is getting marginally better every day, but they don&apost know that at CNN because are too busy chasing tail or tales, tawdry tales.
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When Eric was still in grammar school his father helped fuel a sex scandal that ended his marriage to Ivana Trump by leaking tidbits to reporters, who made the tawdry details of an affair public.
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In that story, and in so many others, Trump reaped a kind of glory from even the most tawdry of headlines, while the women in his life, so much collateral damage, inevitably suffered for them.
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His sole marketing expense was theFive New York Posts he boughtEvery morning to entertain his customers,Its tawdry text just the right bite-sizeTo peruse over a five-minute quality shine in theFive high chairs.
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In the chief justice's hands, the case turns away from the question of whether McDonnell was corrupt (as the opinion puts it, "our concern is not with tawdry tales of Ferraris, Rolexes and ball gowns").
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It's no wonder why each year the store aisles bulge with tawdry jewelry, dead roses, and high fructose disasters for all that last minute debit card swiping on the days leading up to February 14.
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We like this story because it's such a stupendously tawdry case of greed — a lot like good old Representative Hunter pretending golf clothes he purchased with campaign donations were really sports equipment for wounded warriors.
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The ongoing saga over a president, a porn star and a payoff is so lewd and tawdry that it can't simply be added to the ever-expanding list of horrible misbehaviors of a womanizing misogynist.
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One day Portnoy let go of the dial on the machine too early and found himself staring at an account of a brawl that erupted at a rabbinical court adjudicating a tawdry case of bigamy.
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If we as a society turn away from enforcing the rules about coordination, corporate contributions, and disclosure simply because the particular facts of the Stormy Daniels case are tawdry, we will come to regret it.
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Images of her fully made-up in tawdry costumes fuelled theories of a sexual angle to the case and led to intense criticism of her mother, who many believed had pushed her young daughter to compete.
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" This in what Zurcher went onto describe as "easily the most tawdry exchange in 56 years of televised presidential debates" with a warning it would "likely cast a shadow over US politics for years to come.
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The State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television said in a notice released late on Wednesday the content of some of the quizzes were little more than click-bait, with "vulgar and tawdry" content.
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"This indictment is little more than a tawdry patchwork of innuendo and untruths and is itself a damning indictment of the flaws in Turkey's justice system," John Dalhuisen, Amnesty International's Europe Director said in a statement.
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We're behind Andre's mansion, where an L-shaped glass hallway opens onto a minimally furnished deck and a downstage pool—a real one—that looks fun and portentous, chic and sort of tawdry all at once.
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"I viewed your predecessor's tenure as one characterized by tawdry personal behavior in office, a desire to do damage to the agency he led, a flagrant absence of transactional integrity and horrible environmental policies," said Sen.
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It's hard to discuss without spoilers, but suffice to say, this is a hot slice of tawdry trash, not the kind of elevated thriller that will inspire hundreds of hot takes the way Gone Girl did.
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The revelations run from tawdry micro-seductions (a Louis Vuitton handbag stuffed with cash) to macro-estimates (the calculation that Mr. Zuma's 2015 attempt to appoint a lackey as finance minister cost the economy $34 billion).
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Opinion Columnist Seven years ago, a former aide to Ralph Reed — who also worked, briefly, for Paul Manafort — published a tawdry, shallow memoir that is also one of the more revealing political books I've ever read.
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Over the last few months I've tested a River Bank on trips through the ice and snow of the Austrian Alps, the brutal dunes of the Sahara Desert, and the tawdry coffee houses in the space between.
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A two-time Oscar nominee (for writing the screenplay to Soderbergh's Out of Sight and for co-writing the Wolverine movie Logan), Frank has a gift for investing seemingly tawdry, juvenile stories with complicated characters and emotions.
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Rude as it is, "Claws" is at heart a spangled fantasy, about women building power in a crappy system, sashaying from strip club to strip mall, from tawdry oxycodone mills to the mansions bought with their proceeds.
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Despite the tawdry erotic intrigue, the movie's plot is less compelling than its strongly controlled mise-en-scène, which, with its abundance of creaky machines and fusty bric-a-brac, evokes a 19th-century cabinet of curiosities.
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David Blakeley, Villa Rica, Ga. When the paper of record runs tawdry, so-called click-bait in a banner ad on page one of its desktop edition, it reflects poorly on the paper's judgment and journalistic credibility.
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The case involved a tawdry family feud: At one point, Charles Kushner sought to blackmail his brother-in-law, who was cooperating with the federal authorities, by hiring a woman to seduce him and videotape the encounter.
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There's a whole room of dance for the camera created by Charles Atlas that, at best, fails to capture the magic of live performance, and, at worst, is quite gimmicky in their experimentation with tawdry special effects.
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It's a tawdry little drama, and it pulls attention from the millions of lives, in America and around the world, shaped by the policies that stem from decisions Trump and Sessions (and the rest of Trump's team) make.
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English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran had to be taken to hospital Friday after Princess Beatrice of York, seventh in line to the throne, accidentally cut him with a ceremonial sword while trying to "knight" tawdry balladeer James Blunt.
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But it has also presumed to offer him something "more" valuable according to the value system it imputes to him: a tawdry love of gleaming gold fixtures, common to vulgar despots all the way back to Midas himself.
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The details are tawdry all around: explicit video footage of Hulk Hogan having sex with the wife of a friend, taped without his knowledge and, years later, posted online by the popular website Gawker along with gleeful commentary.
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There's no shortage of archetypal appeal here: an eclectic cast of miscreants and weirdos, creeping, shapeless fear (often punctuated by lingering synth), or just the tawdry thrill of a one-horse town where everyone has something to hide.
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An investigation that had begun by examining a complex real estate deal in Arkansas had become a tawdry exposé of the president's sex life, complete with a semen-stained dress and a sex toy in the Oval Office.
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The government has already told the jury of Mr. Howe's tawdry past, which included a 2010 felony conviction for theft related to a fake $45,000 bank deposit, and indicated it would offer other supportive evidence to his testimony.
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Flake's 11th-hour decision to demand a week's delay before a full Senate vote to allow the F.B.I. investigation — a decision driven by conscience over Republican Party allegiance — is a small act of honor in a tawdry time.
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These paintings are cheerful bacchanals of riotous color and pattern, interspersed with wry illustrations of Budweiser cans, lobster, and other comestibles ranging from fruit to candy — spanning natural flavors and those chemically produced, the wholesome and the tawdry.
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KUALA LUMPUR/BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hit movie "Crazy Rich Asians" is grabbing headlines with its depiction of outlandish opulence but another Singapore film is making waves of a different kind by revealing the tawdry underbelly of Asian life.
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Yet the effort to juxtapose that message with the movie's more specific and tawdry crime tale creates an at-times awkward mesh, as the two plates grind against each other in a manner that somewhat blunts Clooney's larger point.
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It was a smartly conceived look at an event in American history that had been written off as tawdry tabloid fodder, but one that nevertheless spoke to conversations we're still having in America about race, class, gender, and power.
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And the charges confirmed that what might have seemed on the surface to have been only tawdry allegations involving an adult entertainment star and a former Playboy model may actually carry legal and political implications for a sitting president.
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The tawdry details of the CBS interview included Daniels saying that in 2006 she asked Trump to pull down his pants so she could spank him with a magazine bearing his face on the cover, to which Trump agreed.
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ZURICH (Reuters) - Crisis-hit world football governing body FIFA faces one of the most important days in its 112-year history when it elects a new leader on Friday hoping to usher in a fresh era after decades of tawdry controversy.
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Betty and Veronica, oblivious to Archie's tawdry affair with Grundy, convince Archie to join them on a trio group friend date to the back-to-school semi-formal dance, and Betty finally does get to confess her feelings to Archie.
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One gets the feeling that she's uninterested in tarnishing her carefully curated universal appeal with such tawdry topics; rather, she prefers to stay on (positive) message, flashing that sweetheart smile and steamrolling over anyone who tries to lure her off-script.
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Andrew's costuming was charming for its balance of simplicity and prim eccentricity; her homemade-looking scarf and an overcoat shorter than her dress looked almost tawdry in a way that served to highlight her unusual aloofness for a female caretaker.
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In trying to muzzle these stories, Cohen, Fox News, and the National Enquirer were all acting on the assumption that Trump would take a political hit for tawdry sex scandals, especially if they involves a porn actress or Playboy model.
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In Florida, a jury in March rejected Gawker Media's free-speech defense and ordered it to pay $140 million in damages for posting a tawdry video on its gossip site showing a retired wrestler in bed with another celebrity's wife.
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The case involved a traumatic and tawdry family feud: At one point, Charles Kushner sought to retaliate against his brother-in-law, who was cooperating with the federal authorities, by hiring a woman to seduce him and videotape the encounter.
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While the Spice Boys at Liverpool achieved a tawdry form of celebrity recognition largely at the expense of their careers in football, Becks managed to find fame off the pitch while still delivering something like his best when called upon.
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The street standing in for South Korea, the North's longtime rival and more prosperous neighbor, includes a seedy brothel, a tawdry bar and a shady blood bank, all seemingly designed to cast it as a paradigm of decrepitude and sin.
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The old-school showmanship, the tawdry big top filled with plastic chairs and a raucous crowd willing the violence on as the Marquis of Queensberry rules ceased to apply and fists and feet started to fly — it all had me fixated.
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Bouton refused, understanding that the league's problem was not with his brazen tales of carousing — which now seem more playful than tawdry — but with his stark recounting of team owners' one-sided, shifty negotiating in the era just before free agency.
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The New York Times this week ran a story of the "tawdry tales" out of Farenthold's office, painting a picture of the Congress member as a volatile, lewd figure whose staffers had to be on "redhead patrol" when he was drinking.
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Molded by his work as co-writer for Ram Gopal Varma's Satya, a film considered a landmark for its gritty realism and sharp social critique in a landscape of tawdry Bollywood romantic musicals, Kashyap's Last Train to Mahakali brimmed with noir elements.
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All of this would merely be a strange and tawdry side story in the many scandals of Michael Cohen — if not for rampant speculation among liberals that it may have been Donald Trump, and not Elliott Broidy, who had the affair with Bechard.
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The Globe ran the tawdry story about Robert Kraft, a powerful fellow sports team owner of the Patriots in Boston, related to alleged sex-trafficking, and continues to dig on the shooting of Red Sox legend Big Papi in the Dominican Republic.
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And while the particulars of the Daniels situation have attracted media attention in part specifically because of how tawdry and comical it is, we have some indications that similar considerations of cover-up and damage control are meaningfully influencing Trump-era policy.
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The multiple prongs of the case -- from the police investigation to the brothers to their therapist (Josh Charles) and his chatty mistress (Heather Graham) -- add layers to this tawdry tale, even before the lads are arrested and Abramson steps in to represent them.
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Then there was the president's decision to fire James B. Comey as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Mr. Comey's memos show Mr. Trump's near obsession with being cleared of the tawdry allegations in a dossier compiled during the presidential campaign.
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The subjects include such infectious banalities as pulp-fiction paperback covers, cheeseburgers, kittens, tawdry erotica, liquor bottles, over-the-counter drugs, folded shirts, the artist's family and friends, and models from mail-order catalogues—there are even a few spin-art paintings.
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In addition to outlining allegations of illegal business practices that might result in Russia having leverage over Trump, the "Steele dossier," as it would become known, also included tawdry alleged details of Trump's sexual proclivities and illicit acts conducted while in Moscow.
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" (They were Ivan Oskorbin, Alexander Sergeev, Roman Belyakov and Aleksandra Iosifidi.) Both those ballets were associated with Plisetskaya, the prima ballerina not of the Mariinsky but of the Bolshoi; her husband, Rodion Shchedrin, was responsible for the tawdry arrangement of the Bizet music for "Carmen.
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"27 years ago I wrote a tawdry book depicting consensual events in 1973-45 years ago-I've deeply regretted its distasteful & disrespectful tone & have refrained from speaking about it-I'm embarrassed & profoundly sorry to those mentioned-I have & again apologize to anyone offended," Rivera tweeted.
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No longer was kitsch simply a synonym for tacky, tawdry, vulgar, and cheap: it's come to define an artistic style imbued with vigor, tenderness, and poignancy, delivered with a technical expertise reminiscent of Old Masters and directly rejecting the shiny aesthetic conventions of modernism.
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But he had alighted on the tawdry intrigue of the moment only to illustrate a larger point, about how audiences these days approach news media, whether it concerns sports or politics or, as seems to be the case more and more often, both at once.
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Editors huddled late into the night, wresting over how to portray Mr. Trump's tawdry descriptions of unsolicited sexual groping in the three-minute recording, while upholding the outlet's conservative editorial standards, said Paul Edwards, the editor and publisher of the 166-year-old publication.
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" Rehman added that "rather than cosying up to Trump in the hope of making some tawdry back room deals, the government should listen to the millions of British people who have sent a clear message that human rights, justice, and equality can't be trumped.
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Parents interviewed at a range of campaign events said they often felt like this political moment resembled a tawdry reality TV show, and they brought their children to see the 2020 candidates to try to demonstrate to them that politics can be something different.
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He was the wunderkind, at 39 the youngest French head of state since Napoléon, promising radical economic change while restoring the presidency to a Jupiterian level, in his words, after the garish "bling bling" of Nicolas Sarkozy and the tawdry "normality" of François Hollande.
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But as the campaign for a rare open Senate seat droops to an end that just about everyone here says cannot come soon enough, there is no shortage of regret that the tawdry overtook the tangible, and topics of statewide concern got little hearing.
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Cohen's own misdeeds included a range financial crimes, lying to Congress, and playing a key and illegal role in keeping two women quiet about purported affairs with Trump so that tawdry tales did not swing voters to support Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.
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CGI held its final meeting last month -- the Clintons shut it down to avoid criticism from Trump and other political adversaries -- but the details of the close mingling of public and private fundraising show a tawdry side that some advisers warned could cause problems for Hillary Clinton.
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At the same time, the imagery and stylistic tropes that Pettibon gleans from historically tawdry sources — modes of expression specializing in abjection, violence, and despair — collide with his multilayered and sometimes lofty inscriptions, amassing a combinatory force that lands a punch to the head again and again.
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His tawdry tales of life inside the Trump Organization felt like a collection of the British tabloids' best hits on the royal family, filled with salacious anecdotes that had little to do with the plight of everyday Americans or issues worthy of the court of law.
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It was an era that produced Henry George's widely read Progress and Poverty, and the construction of railroads that the West didn't need but the South did, an era of corporate mergers, of industrial and farming unions, and of wastefulness on a grand and tawdry scale.
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Mr. Santos's heartthrob status may give the show a slightly tawdry vibe, but his longtime dominance on Latin radio keeps the fans coming back; most recently, he reached No. 1 on Billboard's Latin Airplay chart with the reggaeton singer Ozuna on the summer single "Sobredosis" ("Overdose").
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Twenty-five women competed for one eligible man, and though the goal was a wedding, the approach was tawdry—an open bar insured that contestants were rarely sober, and the bachelor and his chosen mate spent the night in a suite outfitted with night-vision cameras.
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The different national flavours are fun, but it is the simple base that makes the contest so appetising: the drama of a talent show without the garishness, with tasty confectionery instead of tawdry cover songs, and performances that you could (with great effort) repeat in your own kitchen.
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Redistribution is there foreplay, that is why they&aposre good at screwing people, which is why -- thank you very much -- which is why all this good news, the Dems would rather get drunk on tawdry tales and they think you should, too because, oh my god, he lied.
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After more than a decade living in the neighborhood and working in tawdry bars, Barrow now splits his time equally on skating and bartending, but now lives on the Upper West Side and teaches art history at the City University of New York while working on his PhD.
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The Clinton impeachment charges of perjury and obstruction never gained traction with the public because the American people recognized that even if the president may have technically violated the law, his actions were never meant to harm the country but were simply efforts to conceal a tawdry consensual dalliance.
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Surveying them in hindsight, it's clear we cared a lot about politicians: whether affectionately idealizing them (Parks and Recreation, which premiered in 2009), mythologizing them as medieval warriors (Game of Thrones, 2011) gleefully mocking them (Veep, 2012), or investing them with tawdry sexuality and menace (House of Cards, 2013).
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Eric Greitens of Missouri, a rising GOP star, has just gotten his first serious dose of national public attention in the form of a tawdry sex scandal -- one that could derail the political hopes of a man who, until now, was considered a likely contender for the White House.
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Trump deepened the rift in a series of early morning tweets Friday, saying the former contestant had "duped" Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign into providing her citizenship, and accusing her of appearing in "sex tape" based on a tawdry scene in which she appeared in a Spanish reality television show.
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The plot does hinge on a few weird elements that ultimately fall flat—a blow-up doll and a tawdry video of Tracey and the narrator in stolen lingerie—but the narrator's responses to them (rage and shamed silence, respectively) are rendered in a thoughtful way makes up for it.
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The tawdry dance theatrics with which, in the final scene, Mr. Cranko accompanies Tchaikovsky's sublime "Francesca da Rimini" overture are especially wretched; at one point Tatiana lies flat on the floor so that (wow!) Onegin can tug her up into the air, with one of her feet coming near to kicking her head.
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But in an era when we know so much about the NFL itself, when we know all of the ways it has bungled so many serious, major issues, it's harder to buy the idea that it is a moral force within the world instead of the slightly tawdry, rundown carnival it actually is.
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Not far away, a federal courtroom in Newark has been the setting for tawdry revelations about the conduct of top officials in the Christie administration involved in the closing of access lanes leading to the George Washington Bridge in Fort Lee, N.J., to punish the borough's mayor for refusing to endorse the governor's re-election.
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Bookshelf The epigraph of Mary Cummings's book about the trial of the century — the early 20th, at least — pretty much sets the tone for the tawdry, misogynistic and, even in the 21st century, painfully familiar narrative that follows in the latest recaps of Stanford White's murder, one by her and another by Simon Baatz.
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Their trust in some of the most important institutions is being challenged, because the President and those members of Congress who seem to put party above the needs of the American public are acting in a manner befitting a tawdry reality television series -- not the respectable, rational and bipartisan running of the United States government.
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There's something, probably mildly significant, to be said about the reduction of a human being to a set of numbers, but this is a piece about a tawdry bit of masturbatory nonsense that sold a lot of records and kept Kleenex in business for a while so we'll leave that article to someone a bit brighter.
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Now, five years after the tawdry CD retrospective Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, the band has put out It Came From NYC, a boxed set and book documenting the band's early history, including crisp remastered editions of the records that came before the band's move to LA and the release of their breakthrough album La Sexercisto: Devil Music Volume One.
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President Donald Trump was historically unpopular and engulfed in myriad scandals, from the tawdry (an alleged affair with a porn star, covered up with campaign funds) to the corrupt (using the presidency to enrich family businesses) to the existential (Robert Mueller's investigation into the Trump campaign's possible collusion with the Russian government to influence the 2016 election).
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It's against NCAA rules; it looks tawdry; it's dubious within the context of higher education; it's doubly dubious coming from any program coached by Rick Pitino; and given the nationwide problems of campus sexual assault and the rape culture that incubates and enables it, using female sex workers to woo male athletes is probably not the greatest idea.
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Designated an international treaty port after the 19th-century Opium Wars, Shanghai eventually became a kind of global melting pot of the Seven Deadly Sins — what one writer called "a tawdry city of refugees and rackets" — largely controlled by foreigners determined to fleece the town of every copper yuan or Mexican silver dollar it could yield.
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In the end, though, running in a state still smarting from a tawdry scandal that was tailor-made for social media, he did not need to: Mr. Strange could offer nothing more than his word — and that of a disgraced governor, who did not respond to a message this week seeking comment — that nothing untoward had taken place.
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It starts out like a gentle tween romance written round-robin style by two kids who learned everything they know about love and friendship from Judy Blume, then bumps itself up to sports metaphor sex-comedy Jane Austen, then tragically escalates into the forbidden love of the Bronte Sisters, before exploding into the tawdry world of Barbara Cartland romance novels.
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The ex-chief of staff for former President George W. Bush on Friday ripped the manner in which President Trump dismissed his former Chief of Staff Reince PriebusReinhold (Reince) Richard PriebusTrump blasts Scaramucci as 'incapable' Trump taps Sean Spicer to join Naval Academy board of visitors Trump's no racist — he's an equal opportunity offender MORE on Friday, calling it "tawdry" and awkward.
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Roger Cohen Opinion Columnist "The indigenous American berserk," Philip Roth's encapsulation of the country he loved, is a resonating phrase in this time of repetitive school shootings, incontinent presidential tweets, tawdry abuse of public office, rule by mob incitement, manipulation through falsehood, wall obsessions, and the truncation of the English language to a 77-word lexicon "better called Jerkish," as Roth described Donald's Trump's miserable linguistic impact in The New Yorker.
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Razing the tawdry, unsafe and unhealthy camp in Calais was overdue and necessary, and the thousands of people — including hundreds of unaccompanied youths — who had somehow reached the entrance to the Channel Tunnel in the largely false hope of reaching Britain, the promised land for so many refugees, will now have a chance at least to live in a degree of safety while they try to get permission to stay in France.
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There are the two lifelong best friends (Waller-Bridge's Lulu and Damien Molony's Anthony) who seem trapped in their inability to actually speak their feelings for each other aloud; the will-they-or-won't-they of two men (Amit Shah as Fred and Jonathan Bailey as Sam) who become friends and maybe more; the tawdry push and pull of a young painter (Julie Dray as Melody) and the older divorced man who becomes her muse (Adrian Scarborough as Colin).
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The tale of JT Leroy's unmasking still has a tawdry tabloid fascination, and Ms. Albert's account of her frantic attempts at spinning and wagon-circling are in some ways the most forthright part of her narrative, even if she still seems a bit wounded that anyone could have doubted her or JT. Ten years later, Ms. Albert is too ambitious and too intoxicated with her own grift to venture a frank assessment of its causes and consequences.
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It dropped a cheap and tawdry second season in 133 that focused on the trial of Hannah's rapist, and seemed to double down on all of the issues for which the first season was criticized — it ends with a graphic rape scene and an attempted school shooting — all the while maintaining both on and offscreen that really, it was just laying out some hard truths and exploring the real issues that teenagers face in their everyday lives.
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Republican presidential candidate Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward CruzTrump moves forward with F-16 sale to Taiwan opposed by China The Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape O'Rourke says he will not 'in any scenario' run for Senate MORE ridiculed rival Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE as a conspiracy theorist Tuesday, joking that his father committed far more tawdry crimes than even Trump imagines.
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Occasionally, for Antin is a true wit, these can be somewhat whimsical — in "Warhol: The Silver Tenement," for example, Antin's major summary is that in order for Warhol's beautiful creations to succeed, they must necessarily develop "scuffs," transforming his paintings, films, novels, soap operas, and even his planned "silver tenement" into a kind of "precisely pinpointed defectiveness," a kind of tawdry version of glamour — but by and large, no matter what his own position about the quality or purposefulness of the various art and poetic endeavors upon which he focuses, Antin asks serious questions, challenges set notions, and makes us rethink our assumptions.
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"The Source of Self-Regard" is a book of essays, lectures and meditations, a reminder that the old music is still the best, that in this time of tumult and sadness and continuous war, where tawdry words are blasted about like junk food, and the nation staggers from one crisis to the next, led by a president with all the grace of a Cyclops and a brain the size of a full-grown pea, the mightiness, the stillness, the pure power and beauty of words delivered in thought, reason and discourse, still carry the unstoppable force of a thousand hammer blows, spreading the salve of righteousness that can heal our nation and restore the future our children deserve.
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" Postmodernism was especially visible in the field of architecture, where it manifested itself as a "populist" revolt "against the elite (and Utopian) austerities of the great architectural modernisms: It is generally affirmed, in other words, that these newer buildings are popular works, on the one hand, and that they respect the vernacular of the American city fabric, on the other; that is to say, they no longer attempt, as did the masterworks and monuments of high modernism, to insert a different, a distinct, an elevated, a new Utopian language into the tawdry and commercial sign system of the surrounding city, but rather they seek to speak that very language, using its lexicon and syntax as that has been emblematically 'learned from Las Vegas.
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