He is fascinated by seamy details, describing lovemaking just so he can get to the dribble of saliva flowing from a lover's mouth the next morning ("A Parisian Affair", 1881), or envisioning a barroom as an expressionist horror: "They wriggled their bellies and shook their bosoms, spreading about them the powerful smell of female flesh in sweat.
(Johnson) New-York Historical Society: 'Swing Time: Reginald Marsh and Thirties New York' (through Sept. 1) A Social Realist with satiric leanings, Marsh (1898-1954) painthe the seamy side of life in New York during the Great Depression.
Mr Niel grew up in a working-class suburb of Paris, did not go to university a rarity in the upper echelons of French business and counts some seamy episodes in his early career.
A mob of students and street-kids then surged through Kinshasa, the country's seamy capital, demanding elections on time.
This year, at various exceptionally seamy points in the saga of Bill and Monica, there have been predictions that the same thing will happen again: the Republicans will bolster their thin margin of seats in the Senate and their wafer-thin margin in the House, while the Democrats will be slaughtered.
WEEGEE'S photographs of the seamy side of New York are luridly fascinating: car crashes, tenement fires and lifeless bodies sprawled across pavements.
Mr Kononov, who emigrated from Kazakhstan to Russia in 1994, made his first fortune in the seamy business of petrol distribution, and is now growing tomatoes and peppers on 2,800 hectares of previously idle land.
THE arrest of Naser Kelmendi (pictured above), one of the most notorious gangsters in the Balkans, has unleashed a stream of speculation in the region's press about who is connected to whom in the seamy underworld of Balkan crime and politics.
And yet Pakistan with its seamy entertainment district in Lahore and thronging beaches near Karachi is not always as intolerant as this suggests".Enlightened moderation", General Musharraf explains, "is a strategic concept more than a tactical one".
Her 2012 book, "The Man Without a Face", is the most scalding account so far of Mr Putin's seamy past and brutish present.
Yet there's no denying the city's seamy past.
