Word: derelict
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Theron's life veers sharply away from academic drudgery when he happens to stumble on a drunken bum in a bathroom stall at Suffolk Downs. The derelict tells him to bet on "Jesus Saves," and for the hell of it. Theron puts $250 on the filly at 127 to I odds-- and suddenly finds himself up $31,000, or "half again what [he] earned in a year." Wesley College, "according to its own smug formula, paid part in money and part in prestige...
...production of Endgame, Samuel Beckett's 1957 comedy of despair. In his stage directions, the Nobel-prizewinning author specified a parched setting, an empty room with two small windows. Director JoAnne Akalaitis set the action instead in a kind of postapocalyptic subway station, with puddles and a derelict train car. She also added music composed by her ex-husband Philip Glass...
...does not sound like promising materal for comedy. But Fo has turned the event into fine and unlikely totalitarian farce. The central character is a sort of derelict loon who is a professional impostor. Fo took the part himself in the original Italian production, and, obviously, the Fool is essentially Fo. As wonderfully played at the Arena by Richard Bauer, the Fool behaves like Karl Marx masquerading as Dr. Hugo Hackenbush. He is what the Russians call a yurodivy, an elaborately disguised truth seeker, an anarchist-individualist working under deep cover...
...Selective Service forms. The P.O. was also a social spot, where neighbors met to gossip and hear the news. That tradition has been gloriously and ingeniously revived in Washington's Old Post Office, halfway between the White House and the Capitol on Pennsylvania Avenue. Once an embarrassing derelict, the ten-story, 1899 Romanesque wedding cake of Maine granite has been lovingly rehabilitated as a lively market and office place...
Justice's bum epitomizes the futility prevalent throughout The Caretaker Justice portrays a derelict who seems emasculated in the brutal world. Her filthiness complements her undeveloped personality and her selfishness seems ill suited to her poverty-stricken position in society...