Word: charnels
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Bush has no hope but to heal himself. As the price of oil floated downward, as Iraq's Anbar province, formerly a charnel house, returned to local control, as another September arrived with no cities flooded or towers destroyed, his vital signs improved slightly. Too little and too late for this political cycle, but beyond that lie the low hills of Texas, out of the storms, and a quiet wait for history's verdict...
...Anarchy within a dictatorship: the political structure is similar to that in the Rio favelas that Meirelles investigated in City of God. But that movie churned with life and death, with vivid characters who fought back against the charnel chaos. The people in Blindness are mostly passive, even the sighted wife, who has an advantage she declines to use while her new friends are humiliated and starved. The leader of the bad guys (Gael Garcia Bernal) dominates because he has a gun, which she could take from him at any time.) Yet she allows the women in her ward...
...attacks leave Erica battered and bereft. She sits in her apartment listening to David speak comfortingly, chillingly, on her voice mail. Her home is a jail, but outside - the city whose byways it has been her job and passion to celebrate - is a charnel house she fears to enter. When Erica forces herself to go out, to the police station, the law ignores her pleas to investigate the murder...
...scene doesn't prove that Allen is Zodiac. (Neither, conclusively, does the film.) But it does suggest that psychosis has a kind of charnel charisma--that murderous evil is the majesty of the depraved...
...were so close you could smell their fear too. Every day you invaded villages, where the frustration of an unseen enemy could drive you to crimes of My Lai sadism. And at the end of a mission, the corpses piled up, Americans and V.C. united at last, locked in charnel embrace...