Word: fetid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year-old play is part ethnic memory, part ethnic lament. It evokes Irish customs and political power in the Brooklyn of 1890. In a fiery monologue, Matt Stanton (Steven Ryan), a ward boss, describes his immigrant passage across the Atlantic in midwinter. The men and women in the fetid, icy hold were like unhousebroken animals...
Back in the dark sink of the dance room, the music blared on for no one's ears, and the last fetid gases that had inflated the party eased silently from the carcass and left it for dead at the top of K entry. "We had the booze, we had the grass and we had the music to go all night, and the place cleared out before 2--people at Harvard just don't know how to party," says John. Chris agrees: "When it comes to dissipation, we consider ourselves hard-core." The next party will be sometime...
...feel any great obligation to recount their many and varied personal and professional virtues. That is what they, or the taxpayers, are paying for in the salaries and fees of press secretaries, media advisers and advertising agencies." He picked up his fond contempt for politicos from the fetid municipal air of Jersey City, where he grew up as the son of a county judge. "There were two groups of politicians there," Reeves recalls, "those who sold out and those who went to jail...
...Fetid Shantytown. In Luanda, the capital, some 200,000 returnados have signed up for emergency airlifts to Portugal. The Luanda airport has become a fetid shantytown. American, French, German, British and Portuguese airlines are flying in to remove the refugees, but for many the wait will be weeks...
...Reconstruction. But out, too, go the romantic Gay Nineties, when in reality Europe's "huddled masses yearning to breathe free" were pouring through Ellis Island's gates to clot the cities and the mill towns or to be herded into overcrowded tenements, where the only toilets were fetid sheds out in the dark alleys...