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  • But so few postcards and so many fallen and tawdy women…..oops I mean so many people!

    Archive 2009-02-01 Elizabeth McClung 2009

  • And maybe I'm biased because of the pleasure I got from walking around the real downtown LA last summer, but I loved as well the way that this film finds romance in a park overlooking downtown LA, in looking up from the tawdy present-day street level of LA streets to the architecture rising above, how its final scene is set in the gorgeous Bradbury Building looking way different here than in Blade Runner.

    (3) Movies of Summer The Brillig Blogger 2009

  • But so few postcards and so many fallen and tawdy women…..oops I mean so many people!

    Little things, big differences Elizabeth McClung 2009

  • And maybe I'm biased because of the pleasure I got from walking around the real downtown LA last summer, but I loved as well the way that this film finds romance in a park overlooking downtown LA, in looking up from the tawdy present-day street level of LA streets to the architecture rising above, how its final scene is set in the gorgeous Bradbury Building looking way different here than in Blade Runner.

    Archive 2009-07-01 The Brillig Blogger 2009

  • Interviewed at TIME. Com, Professor Wilentz said that Clinton's opponents represented a Democratic tradition of "beautiful loserdom," a belief that politics itself is tawdy and beneath them.

    RJ Eskow: Does the Clinton Campaign Think Idealism is for Suckers? 2008

  • Cheap, tawdy, hapless, hopeless - none of those words encapsulate just how bad Bullseye is.

    Replace 'eye' with 'hit' to rate the film Bullseye DAVID BISHOP 2008

  • If the headline sentiment is noble, less so is the tawdy use of the images and memories of fallen soldiers to pursue a withdrawalist agenda, although it is balanced by an authored piece by Major General Julian Thompson who writes on "We must not forget why our soldiers are dying".

    Archive 2007-04-01 Helen 2007

  • Year after year these titled paupers -- these shameless parodies on God's masterpiece -- paddle across the pond to barter their tawdy dishonor for boodle, to sell their shame-crested coronets to porcine-souled American parvenues, who if spawned by slaves and born in hell would disgrace their parentage and dishonor their country.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12 1919

  • A couple of dozen cheap red plush stools wooed the tawdy Phrynes of

    The Midnight Passenger : a novel Richard Savage 1874

  • Obama isn't the problem .... he just has a sorry tawdy backup!

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2010

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