Word: excremention
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...match Calcutta's. Vast numbers of displaced fellahin spend their lives in one room, sleeping on the floor, taking their water from a public faucet and using the street as a toilet. Many go through a whole lifetime without once taking a bath. Infants who play in garbage and excrement are themselves covered with flies, and they suffer from chronic dysentery, as well as lung diseases aggravated by dust and sand filtering into their homes. Despite free compulsory education, only about 25% of the population can read and write...
...call Larry Flynt a pornographer is like saying that Shakespeare wrote. Flynt is the very sultan of smut, and his Hustler (circ. 1.9 million) stoops to pander with articles and artwork on such themes as bestiality, mutilation, excrement and various gynecological oddities. Or, rather, it used...
...historical themes, 1900 's strongest motifs are visual. Bertolucci organizes the film around the seasons of the year and provides a voluptuous emotional texture wrought from pastoral sun light, blood, mist and excrement. Though much of 1900 has the majesty of Renaissance art, many of its images are erotic or terrifying. In one typically disturbing scene, the director reveals his views on sexual exploitation by sending his two leads to bed with a lovely village laundress who proves to be epileptic. Later, when the Blackshirts come to power, the movie's principal villains (Donald Sutherland and Laura Betti...
...recent years, dissidents have reached the West with tales of political victims held incommunicado in psychiatric hospitals, sometimes drugged into a docile stupor, beaten or tied to their beds to wallow in their own excrement. These practices have outraged world opinion, but the World Psychiatric Association timidly avoided the subject at its last meeting...
...plunged into a deep mental depression, and at one point another simply fainted, apparently from tension. The hijackers maintained strict hygiene inside the train. Every morning blankets were hung out of the windows and beaten to remove the dust. In the afternoon, hostages were assigned to remove excrement from under the train's toilet pipe and bury it in the gravel of the railway bed. Brooms and cleaning materials were brought in, along with games and a daily food delivery from a caterer, paid for by the government. Unable to take any physical exercise, many of the hostages complained...