One arguable exception is the Czechs' Vaclav Klaus, less radical than he sounded, who was brought down by the sleaziness of his friends.
'Transformational' managers: UK success stories *JACQUELINE GOLD Perturbed by the sleaziness of the sex industry, Jacqueline Gold's visit to a Tupperware party in 1981 alerted her to the potential of selling lingerie and sex toys to women within their homes.
We are so accustomed to his venality and sleaziness that it is hard to take seriously his yearning for the woman whose husband – in an act of wholly uncharacteristic selflessness – he tries to save from a heart attack.
In "Funny People," he signalled his sleaziness with that crude (and physiologically puzzling) joke about the Butterfinger.
"In its heyday, the honest services theory allowed prosecutors to pursue sleaziness of all sorts without identifying a victim who lost property or money," said Daniel C. Richman, a professor at Columbia Law School.
(Anderson) King Tuff (Sunday) The gregarious showman behind one of the best garage-rock blasts of 2012 — his self-titled second record, on Sub Pop — has a devilish sleaziness that suits him perfectly for the Lower East Side.
At 8 p.m., Madison Square Garden, (800) 745-3000, thegarden.com; $35 to $65. (Anderson) ★ King Tuff (Wednesday) The gregarious showman behind one of the best garage-rock blasts of the year — his self-titled second record, on Sub Pop — has a devilish sleaziness that suits him perfectly for the North Sixth maelstrom.
The survivors, a spectrum of masculine types, are assembled in the drained, tiled swimming pool that time forgot (designed with merciless sleaziness by Sabine Dargent, who did the equally unforgiving costumes).
Mr. Parry writes exceedingly well about what is known in Japan as the "water trade," a term that encompasses the range of night life in Roppongi, which the author refers to as "a spectrum of sleaziness and elegance, cheapness and expense, openness and exclusivity".
While Professor Shiller warns of "some unfortunate incentives to sleaziness inherent in finance" (the title of Chapter 24), he also believes that new financial instruments informed by his research (and his values) can save the day.
It is definitely at work in "Sucker Punch," which gains in sleaziness by coyly keeping its rape fantasies within PG-13 limits and fairly quivering with ecstasy as it contemplates scenes of female victimization.
