Then what had been seen as seamless synergy could look more like seamy self-dealing.

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The internet nation fled the seamy districts of legacy search sites and flocked like portal sheep to the stark non-portal.

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Still, he does not gloss over the seamy side of his episodes.

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Provide as many details as you want but keep any seamy or gross stuff to yourself (remember, my mom could be reading).

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Set in present-day Los Angeles, Sturges carries on in the classic noir tradition showing the seamy underside of the city and its criminal tendencies.

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When the starlet blurted the seamy detail, when someone said or did something too odd or too open to interpretation, Carson would give the audience the dry look.

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Some would call it the seamy side of these industries.

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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.

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As the blog says it is about "efforts by the local community to keep the streets of Kings Cross in London clean and liveable" and reflected some, but not all, of the local activism aiming to end the area's rather seamy reputation.

BBC: The fight for a right to report

Pretty much everyone who was everyone (or no one) in the '60s has a cameo, from Lance Loud (of the proto-reality TV show "American Family") to David Weisman, director of "Ciao Manhattan" (1972), the seamy, quasi-biographical film about Sedgwick's druggy collapse in which she starred.

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