seamy

Last week, intrepid neuroscientific sleuth Sarah Bellum tracked down a haggard-looking consciousness at one the brain's seamiest flophouses, only to let her elusive quarry slip away,

Starsky & Hutch, which ran on BBC1 from 1976 until 1981, focused on the lives of junkfood-loving Det Dave Starsky (Glaser) and his blond, health conscious colleague Det Ken 'Hutch' Hutchinson (Soul) - working one of LA's seamiest districts.

He headed straight back into the seamiest part of Playas de las Americas and went into another club, Bobby's.

Independent counsels pursued the seamiest practices of the Reagan Administration: the HUD scandal (sixteen convictions), Iran/contra (eleven convictions), influence-peddling by presidential aides Michael Deaver and Lyn Nofziger (two convictions)--high crimes and misdemeanors all.

It's conflict so terrible that it's painful to read, much less contemplate happening in your own life with your own children: seeing girls mutilate themselves with sharp instruments; hiring an ex-Los Angeles cop to trap them and hang onto them until they can be sent off to a wilderness therapy program; searching desperately through the worst parts of San Francisco's seamiest subculture after yet another disappearance; finally giving an ultimatum to a stone-faced adversary, who happens to be your own child, that her next move will be an all-or-nothing decision for your future relationship.