At the helm of the party and government were Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh, respectively, who did not understand or subscribe to the
seamy ways of conducting politics.
A cartoonist for The New Yorker since 2008, Emily Flakes takes a hilarious look at the joys and horrors of motherhood in Mama Tried: Dispatches from the
Seamy Underbelly of Modern Parenting (Grand Central, $42, 192 pages ISBN 9781455558230), a collection of essays and comics.
Relocating not just Andersen's yearning heroine but her entire royal family to dry land, Jan Balej's wittily designed stop-motion outing honors the sorrowful romantic narrative of the original tale to a far greater extent than the Mouse House's 1989 smash --despite a radical shift in milieu to the red-light district of a
seamy city harbor.
Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime-from Global Epidemic to Your Front Door is the culmination of Krebs' years of research and contact with insiders, particularly those in the
seamy underworld of cybercrime.
The
seamy side of Hollywood never fails to fascinate, and it delivers enough intrigue and general nastiness to make for a gripping plot.
on USA) Peter and Neal must infiltrate the
seamy side of Little Odessa to uncover a smuggling ring.
Unfortunately, for many people in this country, buying things based on ethical rather than economic values is a luxury they can't afford ("Our
seamy garments," Margin Notes, July).
But she will be most remembered for her MacMillan repertoire, where she would fearlessly throw herself--often literally--into the
seamy yet compelling characterizations.
The legal battles over the will have enthralled the Chinese territory with their
seamy mix of sex, big money and fraud allegations.
Robert De Niro has never been better than as mad New York cabbie Travis Bickle, surveying the
seamy streets with increasing suspicion in this psycho-drama.
One correspondent - LH of Prestwich - wrote in to say: "Television has this fetish about depicting the north as a
seamy, sooty squalid place full of tumbledown houses, dirty streets, people boozing and living on a diet of fish and chips.
This time it's all about the "
seamy underbelly" of expat life and how it leads to -- shock, horror, wait for it -- teenagers experimenting with alcohol and drugs!!
In the vein of The Crimson Petal And The White comes a terrifying descent into the
seamy underbelly of Victorian society, as the East End is once again haunted by a horrific killer of young ladies, The Man of Crows.
Frasier, of the Lilly Library at Indiana University-Bloomington, admits to having a guilty fascination with show business, particularly the
seamy side.
