Word: fetid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...development of cities fostered competition among humans and alienation from nature. The price of a city's greatness is an uneasy balance between vitality and chaos, health and disease, enterprise and corruption, art and iniquity. The Elizabethan London that nurtured Shakespeare, after all, was a fetid dump cloaked with coal dust...
Face it, folks: Tommy's sucked. The perpetually undercooked burgers, as the staff rightly notes, hardened our arteries, and the fetid French fries sat heavily in out stomachs like so many rotten matzoh balls. Sure, Crimson editors have frequented the joint for two-and-a-half decades, but not for the oily atmosphere, astronomical prices, unfriendly help or intolerable faux-cuisine...
SAMMY DAVIS JR.'S SINGSONG CANDY MAN was a genial guy. The '90s version, from the fetid, fertile brain of horror bard Clive Barker, is a malefic beastie who preys on those foolhardy enough to say his name five times. Now he's lusting to make a curious grad student (Virginia Madsen) his charnel bride. Borrowing from Stephen King and Freddy Krueger (while paving the way for a batch of Candyman sequels), director Bernard Rose deftly juggles sense and slaughter. This is clever, spooky stuff, with a lingering autumn chill...
...tourists, because the ocean waters are polluted and because beachgoers are vulnerable to the crime wave that has overtaken Rio in recent years. The pollution problem is grave: some 400 tons of untreated sewage are dumped in Guanabara Bay every day. Indoor plumbing is a luxury in Rio's fetid hillside slums, and health officials are concerned that the cholera epidemic advancing across Latin America will soon descend...
...most disturbing, and certainly most paradoxical, about both these flagrantly antidemocratic actions was that they had widespread local support. Just before he was hauled off to jail, Chavez, resplendent in his uniform, was allowed to make a televised valedictory. He was a great hit, not just in the fetid barrios around Caracas but in many middle-class households as well. Likewise, when Fujimori threw in his lot with his own restless colonels and put many legislators under house arrest, his popularity initially skyrocketed...