Word: decayed
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...states can no longer afford to pick up the tab, like patsy older brothers, to fatten other parts of the U.S. The issue is likely to prove a prickly one for the next President, particularly if he hails from a place like Georgia. Sensing its deepening distress if not decay, can anyone fault the Northeast and Midwest for wanting at least to break even...
Polanski stars as his own protagonist, Trelkovsky, a slight, shy fellow with a personality like a sweaty palm. Looking around Paris for an apartment, he wanders into a building that must have been built in a state of decay. The concierge (Shelley Winters) shows him a flat whose previous occupant, a young woman, attempted suicide by jumping out of a window into the courtyard below. Trelkovsky gets his only glimpse of the girl during a visit to the hospital, where he finds her on a ward bed, wrapped in gauze like a mummy on welfare. She stares...
Anyone who suggests that most of society might just as well remain ignorant of the reek of decay and formaldehyde is a prissy hypocrite who should be exposed to the cold light of artistic truth...
Other cities-notably Cleveland, St. Louis, Omaha and Louisville-have looked to their rivers for inspiration. Each began as a port town, then grew away from the water, allowing the original settlements to decay. Old wharves and warehouses are making room for bold new projects that mix parks with high-rise buildings. Conclusion: the American city, far from being down and out, is clearly growing...
...ruin of Imperial Rome. This is somewhat surprising, since Gibbon, 39, an inconspicuous Member of Parliament, has previously written only some brief essays and two minor volumes of literary criticism. Yet his new work is not mere history but high tragedy, as the course of Rome's decay is hurried forward by fools and villains, and only briefly impeded by the strivings of worthy...