That old glamour does remain in at least one shady crevice of the town.
Probably because Bush-era policies like torture (including waterboarding) and extraordinary rendition (extralegally transferring alleged terrorists between countries, often stashing them at secret so-called black sites) look, to normal people at least, like shady behavior.
People will still be annoyed they got shortchanged, but it's at least not incredibly shady.
But when discussing classic holiday foods with colleagues, I noticed that most of our families have at the very least one super shady dish, that we seem to only keep on the table for the sake of tradition.
At the very least, many insist that shady practices are sporadic rather than systemic and that a shutdown of adoption is unwarranted.
What is worse, the police suspect at least 116 other regulators of taking bribes to protect shady start-up ventures and banks from scrutiny.
Vaticanologists will doubtless be able to tell how far these various individuals resemble real-life cardinals – though even the most casual Vatican watcher should be able to identify the shady outlines of at least half a dozen well-known figures.
The Post's editors worried that readers would find the "characters shady, to say the least" and wanted Fitzgerald to sanitize them, but he resisted.
You need big trees for a shady mystic mood, or at least a lake to see yourself in like they have in Concord.
But the adjacent neighborhood of Bridgeport, on Chicago's South Side, has been home to other things as well, and most haven't been especially pretty: racial divisiveness, Chicago's notoriously shady political machine and, not least, its perennially losing White Sox.
