Word: decays
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...student community represents a big world reduced to only 650 students. Each brings a distinctive flavor to this College, and the Woodbridge Society could bring them together in a savory stew. The current state of the Society, however, squanders this potential. If Woodbridge fails to halt its own slow decay, it will condemn itself to organizational irrelevance...
Dick Farris, a Portland photographer, saw his father and brother felled by incurable pancreatic cancer. When he came down with the same condition, "he asked his friends for a gun," says his widow Gloria. "He could smell the decay inside himself." But after getting the prescription from his family doctor, she recalls, "he was able to relax, knowing he had control over his death." He chose to die on a Sunday morning, surrounded by his wife's three daughters and 9-year-old granddaughter. Says Gloria: "He told us, 'If I had any more love in this room...
...DIED. ZDZISLAW BEKSINSKI, 75, leading Polish surrealist painter; from multiple stab wounds; at his home in Warsaw. Renowned for his disturbing depictions of death and decay, Beksinski was also a prolific photographer and in recent years expanded his work to include computer graphics, producing unsettling images of monstrous, disembodied faces. Two teenage relatives of the artist's longtime aide have been arrested and charged in the murder...
...won’t Baby win? Consider the cultural currency of The Aviator, which combines tabloid gossip with big business and social elites. If the story of an heir’s trials and tribulations isn’t contemporary, what is? Paparazzi, excess, glamour and decay: replace Howard Hughes with Paris Hilton and you would have an eerily similar film. The Hotelier...
...toward their colonial rulers, who are often purported to be, without exception, heavy-handed racists. Yet, many speak fondly of their missionary educations, and it is hard to travel through the country without seeing the libraries, schools, hospitals, and roads constructed by the British that are now left to decay by a government whose corruption everyone seems to understand. The ultimate question to be asked and today answered typically in the starry-eyed sort of way is: does this excuse the racism of colonial rule...