Word: decay
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...Daisy, like many of her generation, had much she may have wished to forget. Born into the florid decay of imperial China, Daisy would live through a particular horror: she watched her own mother, forced to become a concubine, commit suicide by swallowing raw opium. Despite such early trauma, she managed to survive in Shanghai amid hellish marital troubles (her brutal first husband divorced her and seized custody of her three children), before she fled to the U.S. As Daisy exhibits symptoms of Alzheimer's, a concerned Amy takes her mother in for tests; Daisy growls, "Nothing wrong my memory...
Lorenzo never mourns for the decay of Florence, despite the fact that, in murdering the Duke, she does what all the whining Republicans and hopeless exiles never dared. His madness—her madness—comes not out of dogma but out of an intense aversion to boredom. “Maybe I’ll be honest again,” she says, “and I won’t find it boring...
Harvard students have always been able to claim unquestioned geographical superiority over Yale—New Haven, well, just flat-out sucks. But, New Haven’s urban decay doesn’t seem to be getting in the way of a good time. In fact, the urban blight that lies just outside of Yale’s ivied gates may help promote the strong sense of community within...
...epidemics have also left millions of dead and dying trees across the Southeast. An infestation of the southern pine beetle that began in 1999 has killed a million acres of pine trees from Virginia to Alabama. Those dead trees--most either still standing or cut down and left to decay--are a potential tinderbox. A wetter, more humid climate makes a California-size conflagration unlikely. Still, there are dangers...
Lorenzaccio’s expansive set design, courtesy of Andrew D. Boch ’03, is fantastic. His set is concretely evocative of real-world urban decay (the party cups littering the chunks of prefab house that dominate the stage give the setting a sort of frat-house feel) and yet still very surreal; the building crew have put considerable effort into this set, and it shows. It also combines with high-end costuming by Gisli Palsson ’04 to create an ambience that is all the more plausible for its anachronism...