Word: dreck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...although he is far removed from his days as a literal hair-shirt mystic at the seminary, he still believes the church is the one sure way to salvation. This, compounded by a moral disgust at his surroundings, leads to his most fundamental conviction: "The separation of Church and Dreck was a matter of life and death for the world...
...drinking less, is now ready for a radical choice of his own. When the Dreck really closes in on him, abetted by the p.r. machinations of the Arch himself, Joe makes a brave, ambiguous move. Powers describes it in a terse diminuendo that may puzzle some readers, but its implications are moving nonetheless. Prompted by despair as well as hope, resignation as well as renewal, it can be seen as either a spiritual triumph or a practical failure: not for nothing does the novel end with the word cross...
...long afterward, the vogue for graffiti would release floods of glitzy dreck that shared the same eye-grabbing fervor. Indeed, both were grounded in the same area, a sense of common life, but only Stella was able to make it work aesthetically. Those who think abstract art should betoken "spirituality" are bound to be put off by the materialist cast of mind that lends its here-and-now toughness to even the most florid of Stella's works. Relentlessly inventive, marred only by the glaring, grinding overcomplication of some of his pictorial machines, he is a paragon of mental horsepower...
...possible, albeit difficult. However, the task is obviously beyond Parker. Though an extremely talented craftsman, he has consistently found it difficult to muster cinematic subtlety. His previous efforts (Midnight Express, Pink Floyd: The Wall, and Birdy to name three) are virtual textbooks in cinematic exhibitionism, from "sturm und dreck" junior high metaphysics to high school psychoses...
...giving nets $1.30 for the starving in Africa. But what does nearly every faster do on the night of the big fast? Go to Bartley's or Pinocchio's and blow five or six bucks on dinner. It would make a lot more sense to endure the dining hall dreck one more night and just give the fiver to Oxfam...