His tongue-in-cheek
sleaziness, and rather strange American accent, didn't bother hordes of screaming females in the audience, who gave him a standing ovation.
Given the recent wave of greed-driven
sleaziness in both our public and private sectors--from Wall Street to governors' offices, city halls, and county commissions--one gets the sense that the ethical foundations laid in place stone by stone by the nation's founding fathers is as badly in need of repair as our country's aging infrastructure.
Disillusioned by lies about progress in Vietnam and by the
sleaziness of the Nixon administration, the American people sought change and they turned to Jimmy Carter.
That role still carries the taint of "
sleaziness" and of using others for personal gain.
(1966), manages to deliver a sleazy boss without the clichE[umlaut]d
sleaziness that accompanies such roles, which is never easy because sleaze is sleaze.
The corruption and
sleaziness of this process is difficult to exaggerate.
Devor's boast that he was breaking down "the last taboo" in fact an acknowledgment of moral transgression, i.e.,
sleaziness? Nero is said to have fiddled while Rome burned and to have enjoyed the luminous spectacle of Christians trussed up on crosses as human lanterns.
Still, if it lacks "Hostel's" distinctive
sleaziness, "Turistas" does have one idea as offensive as anything in that gagfest: Zamora explains he yanks organs from (still-conscious) "gringo American tourists" and donates them to a Rio People's Hospital in order to "even the scales" against First World imperialism.
Instead, entrenched by gerrymandered redistricting into what they envisioned would be a permanent majority, Republicans slid toward lax oversight, unbridled partisanship and rampant
sleaziness, if not outright corruption.
Much of the media attention Canseco's book has received so far has focused on the questionable veracity of his locker-room revelations or the sheer
sleaziness of his literary project.
The sheer
sleaziness of my hotel just round the corner from Central Park and Carnegie Hall.
Better the paranoid excesses of the C.I.A.'s James Jesus Angleton than the awesomely vapid amateurism prevalent in Whitehall, let alone the
sleaziness of actual British fellow-travellers.
But in their very
sleaziness, in their decidedly uneuphoric insistence on the visibility of class, its injuries, and its violence, they give the lie to the fashionable fictions that MOMA and other art institutions are now so eager to promote.
This hard-hearted thriller is from a story by Jim Thompson, fuelled by an authentic air of desperation and
sleaziness - and a superb Elmer Bernstein score.
