Word: fetid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wall Scrawl. "The fetid 10 ft. by 10 ft. cell was windowless, barred and infested with cockroaches, fleas and mosquitoes," Robins later reported of his temporary residence. "A single yellowed bulb in the ceiling burned throughout the night as all the dogs in Christendom howled round us. On the cracked wall opposite the bed there had been scrawled in two-inch letters, MAN WILL DIE BUT THE CAUSE WILL LIVE...
...slightly higher plane, one cannot help admiring Samperi's creation of a claustral atmosphere that makes believable both the boy's fetid sexuality and the girl's inability to escape his trap without destroying herself and his father. That she finally manages to do so, by reversing their roles, is also accomplished without suspension of belief. It even seems rather courageous and psychologically acute...
...Mishima's career may have been a rehearsal for that death. Born to an upper-middle-class Tokyo family, he had a fairly sinister childhood. He was raised as a little girl by his grandmother, who kept him much of the time in her gloomy sickroom. The fetid memories of such an upbringing formed much of the basis of his 1958 novel, Confessions of a Mask. "Something within me responded to the darkened room and the sickbed," he wrote elsewhere. He was fascinated, too, by death, which for him possessed an erotic attraction. His first sexual experience seems...
Homosexuality is not popular in New Hampshire, and the Governor's position and our newspaper's position against homosexuality entirely aside from being biblically and morally correct, is also politically popular, so this is not an issue that has backfired on Governor Thomson except in the morally fetid atmosphere of Cambridge, Massachusetts...
Morality aside, "The Grande Bouffe" is a liberatingly funny pitch-black comedy. Ferreri assaults us. You're bound to be caught off guard by the overheated outhouse humor, the bloated, fetid atmosphere, the absorption with vomit and excrement, the colossal disrespect for human anatomy. Like pornography, it turns us (whether we're willing or not, and if we pay our pornmovie price of $5 we certainly ought to be willing) into voyeurs and accomplices. It appeals to our prurient curiosity at the same time that it disdains erotic indulgence. The movie tests our limits of shockability: how much...