Word: derelicts
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...handful of actors have enough box-office clout to get produced pretty much any show they want to appear in. One is George C. Scott, who last came to Broadway in 1986 as an aging, derelict Huck Finn in an unpopular bit of myth debunking called The Boys in Autumn. Now Scott is back as a quintessential foxy grandpa, all harmless cuss words and mock-fierce benevolence, in a sentimental 1938 comedy-drama about an old man's battle of wits with death, personified as the prissy bureaucrat Mr. Brink. Scott's new role may be at the opposite...
...World War II, and for a few hours last week it seemed as if war had returned. Moving swiftly in the bleak dawn, a force of 3,000 police, using bulldozers and armored personnel carriers, smashed over trenches and through 6-ft. barricades to battle squatters ensconced in the derelict blocks. While bricks and fire bombs rained down from rooftops, the authorities flushed out hundreds of squatters with clubs and tear gas. At least 160 were injured, including 90 police, and Mayor Walter Momper's governing coalition of Greens and Social Democrats collapsed because of the violence...
...bashing and violence against gays should have no place in a true conservative's heart--and AALARM has been derelict in making this point clear. Similarly, campus gay groups should extend the same tolerance and charity to conservatives that they themselves demand...
Other examples abound. When a doctor was brutally murdered by a half- deranged derelict at New York City's Bellevue Hospital last year, the press promptly pointed out that she was not just any doctor. She was "full of life" and blessed with a "brilliant mind." The nightmare of Hedda Nussbaum and her murdered Lisa was the saga of not just another battered wife but a once lovely, once successful, patiently suffering woman who had been possessed by a diabolical...
...dies before morning, leaving Lena alone with Boesman once again. At first, she refuses to continue traveling with her mate, who is afraid that he will be accused of murdering the derelict. She pleads with him to "learn to dance" and thus "leave his bruises on the earth" rather than on her body...