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To publish one article on this tawdry subject may be regarded as a slip-up; to publish two looks like an obsession.
This Republican rejoinder grants that the House impeachment process was politicized but argues that 1) the Senate should be above such tawdry politics; and 2) the way to regain public confidence is to transcend partisan rancor and skepticism by reverting to the innocence of a jury.
Not a slick exploitation film with all the trappings of depravity but none of the consequences" (the Chicago Sun-Times ). Several critics take the exact opposite stance: The Los Angeles Times ' Kenneth Turan calls it "an unapologetically sleazy ordeal that delights in twisting the knife, a tawdry piece of work whose only raison d'être is making the skin crawl in the name of box office profit."
These attract bigger audiences than do current local offerings, which seem tawdry and unoriginal after the towering creativity of giants like Kurosawa and Oshima.
Forbes : Its tawdry scheme to try to make money for their friends.